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We’re taking tooling to Texas for this year’s HOUSTEX Show. Located at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, HOUSTEX runs February 24 through 26, 2015 and features the latest innovations in manufacturing technology, speakers, and interactive product demonstrations.

OSG will be featuring a variety of tools at this year’s show. To showcase our newest innovations, we’re featuring our all-purpose EXOTAP® A-TAP designed to excel in a wide variety of materials and applications and the EXOPRO® WHR-Ni, a spiral point tap for nickel-based alloy applications. We’re also bringing the EXOCARB® WDO Drill series, our high performance coolant-fed carbide drills for ferrous and non-ferrous materials, and our EXOPRO® UVX-Ni End Mills with a variable helix design to reduce vibration in difficult-to-machine materials like nickel alloy. Plus, we will showcase some of our indexables from our high performance PHOENIX series, such as the multifunctional PSE shoulder cutter and ultra performance PHC cutter for maximum metal removal rates.

We’re excited to be a part of another great HOUSTEX show! Come down and see us at Booth #258. Register today.

The corporate name change was made to better reflect the diverse array of products and services that OSG markets domestically. “It was important to change our name because of the full line of tooling products we offer to the US market beyond taps and dies,” said Mike Grantham, President of OSG USA. “Our customers have come to know us for all of the superior products we offer, so it was time to remove the “Tap and Die” from our name,” Grantham added.

Actions speak louder than words, and we at OSG are using our new tagline – “Shaping Your Dreams” – to inspire outreach. In an ongoing effort to get more young people interested and prepared for careers in manufacturing technology, we donated over $85,000 in new tooling to Chicago-area colleges.

Mike Grzybowski, Regional Manager for OSG, has delivered tools to College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Joliet Junior College and the College of Lake County in Grayslake. Students involved in these manufacturing programs will now have access to training with industry-leading tools which will better prepare them for going into the field.

Grzybowski most recently visited the College of Lake County where instructor Jeff Hines received the donation. He was extremely appreciative of the tooling as well as the decimal charts, safety glasses and catalogs that OSG additionally provided. In reviewing the technical information within the OSG catalogs, Hines realized the valuable information it contains and will look to it for teaching lessons in the future.

Dave Szumowski, Mechanical Production Technology Instructor at Joliet Junior College, also received a visit from OSG. Szumowski truly appreciated the thought and generosity of OSG to think of Joliet Junior College and donate such a large amount of tooling for their program. He recognizes the importance of fostering an ongoing relationship with OSG moving forward, including hosting OSG guest speakers and more.

When visiting College of DuPage, Grzybowski delivered the cutting tools and other training aids to Jim Filipek, Coordinator of Manufacturing Technology. Having worked in manufacturing and machining for years before retiring and becoming a teacher, Filipek knows the importance of being trained with quality tools from the start.

“This action by OSG allows us to train the workforce of tomorrow with the tooling of today!” Filipek was grateful for the donation and believes the addition of OSG’s tooling is going to help their program tremendously.

Reaching out to these local colleges is one way that we can improve the future of students looking to go into the manufacturing industry. By providing the quality tools they need to learn the trade, we are certain to get engineers and machinists who are better prepared and more driven in the field for years to come.

As the leader of the global cutting tool market, we needed a stronger global identity to match. We’re proud to announce our new brand statement and tagline that defines our customer-focused approach.

The power of OSG lies in our assured innovative technological know-how for producing high quality and high performance products; our exceptional services to respond to situations diligently; and our out-of-the-box thinking to provide total solutions that anticipate our customers’ needs. As a comprehensive cutting tool provider with operations spanning across the globe, we are committed to contribute to the advancement of the manufacturing industries by shaping our customers’ dreams into reality.

Our new tagline describes our commitment to provide high quality products and services that anticipate our customers’ needs on a global scale. Effective October 1st, this brand statement and tagline are now being used across all OSG Group companies and subsidiaries worldwide. 

Mike Cotton, Marketing Manager for OSG Tap & Die, is excited about the new announcement, “Having this global statement will help unify OSG in our core values as a business.”

As a leading manufacturer of taps, end mills, drills, and dies, we strive to provide greater value to our clients and society as a whole. By focusing our global identity, we hope to go beyond crafting tools to helping customers realize their goals, always providing premium quality along the way. With our global reach, there’s no limit to what we can achieve as we move forward into the future.

OSG had a ROARIN’ good time yesterday at the Brookfield Zoo 5k, Zoo Run Run, to benefit the Chicago Zoological Society’s Conservation Fund.  Twenty-one runners strong, this is the third 5K run/walk of the season for the OSG Runners Club.

Instituted over two years ago, the Runners Club has been growing in popularity among OSG employees with about 70 employees and their family members participating this year alone. This is the largest group since the club’s inception.

As part of the OSG Wellness Campaign, OSG covers the cost of registration for up to four running events per year. The group holds a meeting at the beginning of each year to choose which races to participate in, doing their best to include some local races, races that support a charitable cause and races that allow you to run or walk.

OSG was featured on the cover of the August issue of MoldMaking Technology. National Corporate Product Manager, Roger Goble, provided the corresponding feature article on a new approach to machining deep 3D cavities and cores which dramatically reduces cycle time in comparison to traditional EDM methods.

Read the full article here*.

*This article originally appeared in the August 2014 issue of MoldMaking Technology. It is reproduced here with permission from the publisher.