You probably use an oven, refrigerator, or dishwasher every day, but have you ever thought about how appliance handle design has changed over the years? If you take a moment, you'll likely be able to easily recall the difference between your grandma’s 1970 wood-grain oven range pull handles and today’s curved, ergonomic stainless steel refrigerator handles.… Read More
Here are five engineering tips for product manufacturers wrestling with a common dilemma: how to optimize a product or component design for metal fabrication. Even the most highly trained in-house manufacturing design engineers often find it difficult to impossible to keep up with ever-changing metal fabrication technology. And even those who do stay on top trends and… Read More
If you wanted a wedding cake, you wouldn't have one bakery make the batter, another bakery bake the layers, and a third bakery do the icing and decorations — yet that is exactly what happens as many manufacturers turn to a metal fabricator and then a metal finisher to get their metal products made. Adding suppliers to any production… Read More
Some things don’t get done over the Internet. Local metal fabrication is one of them. The electronic age has vastly accelerated production and efficiency in every industry, and metal fabrication is no exception. Planning, inquiries, bids, orders, correspondence, and even metal fabrication designs and drawings all race through the virtual cloud. When it comes time to… Read More
Mills Products Expands Sales Force with Blair Engineering Posted on: 02-06-2013 Metal fabricator Mills Products (BRENTWOOD, Tenn.)has signed an agreement with sales group Blair Engineering, a leading sales representative of mechanical and electromechanical manufacturers in the South. Blair connects its clients with regional OEMs to meet new product requirements. Blair Engineering will promote Mills’s hydroforming,… Read More
In a perfect metal fabrication world, every design engineer would use metal prototypes to accurately test part feasibility before full-scale manufacturing begins. Prototyping allows engineers to quickly turn a theoretical concept into a physical part that can be seen, touched and tested under real-world conditions. Unfortunately timelines and tooling costs often make metal prototypes an… Read More
The Invention of the Oven Window Every year, millions of thankful Americans gather together to peek at their beloved bird through the safety of reinforced glass. Though a major milestone of Americana, the origin of the ubiquitous oven window seemed forever lost to the annals of manufacturing history. Until now. From the patent desk of… Read More
Posted on: 06-15-2012 Metal fabricator Mills Products (Brentwood, TN) is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement with Middleville Tool and Die to be the exclusive appliance-industry licensee for an innovative, patented tubular stamping technology that is also finding wide applications across the automotive and furniture industries. This fully automated process will allow… Read More
Posted on: 08-27-2012 Mills Products (Brentwood, TN), a major North American metal fabricator specializing in high-end paint finishes, was recently awarded a contract to powder coat cargo shade covers for a European luxury automotive manufacturer. The Tier Two automotive contract requires Mills Products to paint several thousand parts for use in a 2013 model sports… Read More
Posted on: 10-25-2012 Metal fabricator Mills Products (Brentwood, TN) has partnered with GE Appliances to produce dishwasher handles for the latest generation of GE Profile series kitchen appliances. Drawing on over ten years of engineering collaboration with GE, Mills introduced an automated, patented progressive tubular stamping die process at its plant in Athens, Tenn. The first… Read More
