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Kurt Workholding Named Best Vise And Workholding Brand For 2006 – Over 500,000 Vises Sold To Date
Minneapolis, Minnesota: What is the best product? In the industrial marketplace, independent brand preference studies point the way. In the category of vises and workholders, Kurt was named the clearcut leader and "Best Brand Winner For 2006." *
"We are delighted with this recognition," reports Steve Tschida, Kurt Industrial Products engineering manager. "Machining centers depend on vises and workholding for accurate parts. Kurt leads in this category having sold over 500,000 vises, many of which have been in everyday use for decades. In virtually every high technology category, from medical devices to aerospace systems to computers, Kurt vises and workholding are critical to the quality of the end product. With its unique vises and patented workholding products and systems, Kurt through the decades has defined and re-defined the term "repeatable precision." Kurt truly has earned this recognition."
First introduced in 1961, Kurt pioneered the precision machine vise with its patented Anglock® design. This development paralleled the development of computer numerical controlled machines with the Anglock vise providing the workholding accuracy and repeatability for these automated, high speed systems. From the start, Kurt was the leader and through the years developed many exclusive vise and workholding designs that defined that industry category.
With over 500,000 vises sold, Kurt reports that even its earliest models are still in day-to-day use because they were and still are ruggedly constructed out of precision machined solid ductile iron. "We see those 40-year-old vises on machines in shops all the time," reports Tschida. "You can't miss them because the bases are painted gray." (Today's Kurt vise bases are blue so it's easy to differentiate the new from the old.)
Currently, Kurt offers a full line of single and multiple station vises and towers and is the only vise manufacturer to offer a Lifetime Ironclad Warrantee on the products it manufactures.
 *Industrial Equipment News (IEN), who conducted the independent research and gave Kurt the Best Brands recognition (January, 2007), is the leading business-to-business product tabloid and print-to-web connection according to 2005 Harvey Cumulative Analysis. Founded in 1933, Industrial Equipment News has grown into a suite of tabloid editions published in multiple languages and is delivered to virtually all leading manufacturing companies across the globe. http://ienonline.com/
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