President's Blog

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 […]

Today is April 21st, 2020, and I am supposed to be at the American Foundry Society Metalcasting Congress in Ohio. Unfortunately, I am sitting in our corporate headquarters alone, waiting for my next video meeting. It has been a challenging time for everybody in their own way. The personal life changes that we are adapting […]

  Brute force vibrating screens have been a staple in the mining industry for about as long as there has been a mining industry. The easiest way to separate this bulky material is through movement dividing the material based on size. Brute force screens have long been an economical way of accomplishing this. However, as […]

    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 […]

A Need for Balance   Vibratory conveyors have been a staple in bulk material handling for over a century. From handling light powders to glowing red engine blocks, vibrating conveyors excel at moving difficult materials. As versatile as they may be, it is sometimes necessary to install vibratory conveyors on floors or structures which cannot […]

Another day, another call from a foundry that “saved money” buying low-value vibratory equipment from our competition.   This time the call was in reference to a group of machines engineered and manufactured by a company that used erroneous engineering calculations. As a result, from day one of operation, the equipment cracked and broke. This […]

I attend quite a few tradeshows every year, in fact, in the earlier part of my career I directed GK’s tradeshow program. The purpose of a tradeshow is to introduce prospective buyers to new or innovative technologies that could bring value to their business.   When General Kinematics attends a tradeshow, we like to bring […]

It’s coming. The increase of activity in the Sales Department is a telltale sign, summer shutdown is right around the corner. Every year, while many of us are relaxing and enjoying the 4th of July holiday, scores of talented men and women are working hard to revamp and improve process lines. In many cases, it […]

Over the last few weeks, I have been involved in quite a few meetings with our sales and engineering teams responding to customer requests to help repair machines they bought from competing vibratory suppliers. Many of these machines have only been installed one to three years, and are experiencing catastrophic failures that are creating excessive […]

  It started with an odd request directed to our engineering team: “With all the power I am holding in this mobile device, how can we at GK use this technology to ensure our customers have the best experience with our equipment?” After some hard work and innovation, we are excited to announce that the […]