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Ability Metal Amplifies Productivity with Automation from MIDACO Ability Metal (formerly Ultra Specialties Inc), a nearly 100 year-old American manufacturing company based in Elk Grove Village outside of Chicago, needed to find an edge against competition that is growing more and more efficient by t...

Showing a NEW MIDACO A4020SD Automatic Pallet Changer on a 25-year-old HAAS VF-3 Vertical Maching Center A question we hear quite often is, “Does your Pallet Changer work on older machines?” - YES! After seeing how much value MIDACO Pallet Changers brought to their new VMCs, job shops have been choo...

Woodpeckers yielding 50% better spindle utilization with MIDACO pallet changers on their HAAS VMCs Rich Hummel started Woodpeckers Precision Woodworking Tools, located in in Strongsville OH, in 1988 as a woodworking hobbyist. He initially outsourced their manufacturing to a small machine shop across...

Instant time savings of 40% - 60% on your milling machines with this automation upgrade! With MIDACO Corporation setup times are reduced to zero! Learn more in this quickie from MTDCNC at Associated MetalCast!

Blog in collaboration with Sam Scinta, Jr. Critical labor shortages call for creative automation solutions such as adding collaborative robots to increase unattended machining. But why set up a robot to load parts one by one directly onto your vertical machine tool table and lose valuable cutting ti...

Pallet Changers for CNC Automation Bring Higher Volume Machining Customers CRYSTAL LAKE, IL – Established in 1997, Vo-Tech (Variable Operations Technologies Inc) identified a need to bring higher volume jobs into their shop as their business continued to grow. However, they soon discovered that to b...

- Article in collaboration with Sam Scinta Jr. Machining Excellence Added More Productivity with Fewer Man Hours When Galyon Manufacturing needed to increase productivity for its operation in Sweetwater, Tennessee, it turned to new CNC equipment, quickly choosing a Haas DM2 for its speed and a...

Customer testimonial from Duo CNC's President, Terrance Visser.  "The Automatic Midaco Pallet Changer was a great addition to Duo CNC Machining and seamlessly integrated with our our new Haas VF4 SS. The pallet changer has allowed us to run parts continuously, increase spindle time, and re...