MMI-Direct Blog

While many are alarmed by the current geopolitical climate, this international tension comes with a silver lining for owners of roll forming machines. Increased spending in aerospace & defense has led to huge growth in...

The second world war, the largest in all of history, shaped nearly every aspect of our modern world. Our economy, our infrastructure, our politics; all were shaped by this single cataclysmic conflict. More so than any before...

Would you look at that, once again it’s everyone’s favorite time of the year to not die, National Safety Month! Last year we celebrated by giving you some general tips to stay alive while working with machines that cut steel...

CNC lathes, grinders, EDMs and more to be sold through an online auction ending on July 18, 2018.

MMI Auction, a division ofMachinery Marketing Internationalwas chosen to facilitate this single facility machine shop...

In preparation for new customer orders, a corrugation plant used MMI auction to sell a set of machines no longer needed, including two massive rolling machines.

A Midwest fabrication plant auctioned off about 80 presses and fabrication machines using Machinery Marketing International’s managed online auction service.

CNC Machining is a complicated business, whether dealing with Used CNC machines or new, everyone runs their shop a little differently. Because of that, certain simple machine tool tricks may completely fly under the radar of...

If you're active in the CNC machining community to any degree, you've likely heard the names Haas and Mazak tossed around a lot. They are two juggernauts of the industry, each taking up huge shares of the market and each...

So you're going to sell your used CNC equipment, and you want to maximize the ease—and profits—of doing so. Maybe you're a new hobbyist, looking to trade your first lathe in for something a little more powerful. Or maybe...

Watching a CNC machine at work is actually really cool. In the day to day grind of grueling shop work it can be easy to forget that fact, but it's true, and it's probably why many of you got into this trade in the first...

Milling machines are, barring perhaps the lathe, the most widely used varieties of machine tools—and why shouldn't they be? Spanning from 5-axes to machining centers to Bullards, there's probably a milling machine for any...