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Michael Granlund Named Sales Engineer
For Kurt Custom Engineered Workholding
 Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Kurt Manufacturing Company, Industrial Products Division,
announced the appointment of Michael Granlund to the position of sales
engineer for its Custom Engineered Workholding operations.
Granlund will head up concept design for new Custom Engineering Workholding
projects. He will work directly with both customers and Kurt sales representatives
coordinating Kurt's design engineering resources to develop individual
workholding solutions that maximize productivity for all types of vertical
and horizontal machining centers.
A 30-year employee of Kurt, Granlund brings to his new position broad
experience as a precision machine operator and as a process and manufacturing
engineer. Most recently, he was a process and manufacturing engineer
working on Kurt's full line of standard "D" series vises and
accessories, a position he held for 6 years. Prior to that, Granlund
served as a tool maker for 5 years with Kurt and then became a special
machine and fixture designer and assembler for 9 years.
In his first 10 years at Kurt, Granlund operated horizontal machining
centers used in many of Kurt's largest precision contract manufacturing
projects which included machining engine crankcases for Polaris all-terrain
vehicles and housings for IBM mainframe computers.
Granlund holds a 3-year tool, die and mold degree from Alexandria Technical
College in Alexandria, Minnesota. |
