Rotary News

One day I was talking to a GK foundry expert about a recent foundry visit where he witnessed a competitor’s rotary drum having new liners installed. The liner sections were cast grids and were pretty heavy. He watched as the maintenance team used a come-along to pull the top panel out of a stack and […]

    How time has flown by! 2019 marks General Kinematics’ fourteenth year in the rotary drum business, and I thought it would be fun to reflect on how we got here and what has changed in the time passed. Where We Began   General Kinematics has been involved in the foundry industry since we […]

          We watched, from a distance, as a maintenance worker struggled to assemble a cast grid liner system in their rotary shakeout. He and his team had been working for a couple shifts but were only halfway through the process. As he was assembling the next row, a grid panel unexpectedly […]

Disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology, or a product that creates a completely new market segment.      Innovating and creating “disruptive technology” are business drivers that many companies strive for. At General Kinematics, it is something we try to do every day.   One recent example here at GK involved our […]