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In 1957, Louis Seyer \u2014 a self-taught tinkerer and World War II veteran \u2014 used the modest proceeds from a kitchen invention called the Easy Egg Cracker to purchase a struggling machine shop in a farmer\u2019s garage outside St. Louis. Nearly seven decades later, the company he founded has grown into one of the aerospace industry\u2019s most trusted precision manufacturers, serving some of the largest defense and commercial aerospace primes in the United States from a 250,000-square-foot campus in St. Peters, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Today, Seyer Industries is a third-generation, family-owned business employing approximately 370 people. Its customer list reads like a who\u2019s who of the aerospace and defense world: Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Gulfstream, and the U.S. Navy, among others. And at the center of that growth story is a calculated, long term investment in some of the most precise machining technology available – HERMLE 5-axis CNC machines and their proprietary automation systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By 2010, the aerospace market\u2019s demand for tighter tolerances and more complex geometries had outgrown Seyer\u2019s 3-axis capabilities. Flight components – from rotor bearings for military helicopters to arresting hooks used to land aircraft on carrier decks – required a precision platform that conventional machines simply could not deliver. The company needed 5-axis machining, and after extensive research, the Seyer family made a decision that would reshape the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their first HERMLE<\/a> – a C 40 – arrived in 2008 and quickly earned near-mythic status on the shop floor. \u201cThe energy around those machines was that they were the holy grail of machines,\u201d recalls Jason Kinsler, who has spent the last eight-plus years running HERMLE equipment exclusively and now leads Seyer\u2019s entire 5-axis HERMLE division. \u201cI\u2019ve run a lot of machines, and I have yet to find one that compared to a HERMLE. That\u2019s just the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That first machine, now over 15 years old, is still running production today – a testament to HERMLE\u2019s engineering and Seyer\u2019s maintenance culture alike. The C 40 was followed by three C 400 machines and, over time, a fleet that now numbers 17 HERMLE units out of roughly 90 total CNC machines on the floor.
Ray Gaudette, Seyer\u2019s Director of Operations and a 19-year company veteran who worked his way up from machinist to the executive team, credits HERMLE\u2019s precision with fundamentally changing how Seyer approaches complex aerospace work. \u201cThey\u2019re able to eliminate some other operations we had,\u201d he says. \u201cMaybe before we used a couple different machines, even grinding or post-machining operations, that now can be done in one operation on the HERMLE machine because of its ability to hold tolerances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information visit: hermle.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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