Carbide Products’ Role In The 150th Kentucky Derby

May 2, 2024 Carbide Products Inc.

Peter Pickett and some of his team with the bugle at Keeneland

A valued customer and close friend, Peter Pickett of Pickett Blackburn was given the opportunity to manufacture the bugles for the 150th running of the Kentucky Derby. The craftsmanship and quality of their work is truly unmatched. We are proud to supply them with the specialty tooling and parts needed to make these world class instruments.

More information can be found on their site PickettBlackburn.com

Carbide Products, Inc has been working with Pickett Blackburn on several projects over the years. We have been able to provide them with specialty reamers used to manufacture high end mouthpieces. We also machine the monel valve bodies used on their three valve instruments like those shown above. Our team is proud to have a part in a project like this.

DATRON Dynamics, Inc. features Carbide Products, Inc. in recent article

May 3, 2017 Zach Esenbock

German machine tool manufacturer Datron Dynamics features Carbide Products, Inc. in a recent article by Steve Carter.

In late 2016 CPI took delivery of one of the first Datron Neo Machines in the US. After learning of our unique application of Datron's cutting edge technology, Datron contacted Paul Strippelhoff and asked if they could feature CPI in one of their corporate news letters. Of course Paul agreed... In producing the article Paul had the oportunity to highlighted two of our rising machinsts, Evan Strippelhoff (Danny's son) and Peyton Strippelhoff (Paul's son).

Read the full article: http://www.datron.com/blog/small-cnc-investment-yields-huge-advancement/

Manufacturing Today Magazine publishes article on Carbide Products, Inc.

February 15, 2013 Carbide Products Inc.

Manufacturing Today Magazine, winter 2012 issue features Carbide Products, Inc. in a spotlight article entitled "SKILLED AND MOTIVATED". The article, written by Staci Davidson highlights our history and business philosophy of continuous improvement as well as our ongoing investment in equipment, technology and personnel. There are also photos, one depicting a capping mechanism used at J.M Smucker’s Jif® peanut butter plant in Lexington, KY and another depicting an array of pencil manufacturing cutters, cutter heads, material and related tooling produced in our Georgetown, KY plant.

Thanks also go out to Dan Leech of Leech Carbide for his support in the production of the article.

Please read the complete article “Skilled and Motivated”