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About Us
GAZ Consulting, LLC was formed by Greg Zjaba (IPA: zäba) to bring tooling and machine design services primarily to the composites industry, with a focus on pultrusion processing.
Greg has over 30 years of experience in machinery and tooling design and holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a machinist through college and has been very hands-on throughout his career, working alongside mechanics on numerous machine rebuilding and installation projects. This background has enabled him to better understand how machines and tools fail, and to design for higher reliability and maintainability.
Greg’s composite experience includes natural-fiber compression molding, BMC extrusion and pultrusion. He was lead on pultrusion equipment and infeed tooling at a major ladder manufacturer and oversaw the machinery aspects of the quadrupling their pultrusion capacity. Experience at another pultruder included more complex and lower volume products.
More background information can be found here:  www.linkedin.com/in/gregzjaba

GAZ Consulting, LLC offers tooling and machine design support for the composites industry with an emphasis on the pultrusion process. 
Areas where we can help include:
        Pultrusion infeed tooling including complex profiles
        Custom forming collars/shoulders 
        Pultruder and pultrusion saw design
        EPA MACT compliance
        Process development from a machinery and tooling perspective
        Resin mixing
        Product design and development
        Machinery redesign and rebuilding
        Hydraulic system troubleshooting and upgrading
        General machinery design
        Machinery alignment
        Tooling and mold design  
Design work is done in SolidWorks with Fusion 360 used for simulation as needed. 

Pultrusion Creels

Wet-Out and Infeed

MACT Enclosure

Collector bushing

Outer fabric former

Wet-Out Tank

Round tube infeed

1" Round Forming Collar

Inner Former

1" Forming Collars

1 1/2" Round Forming Collar

Trapezoidal Former for Geometry Testing

7/8" Round Formers

Former-Collector Assembly

Trapezoidal Former Geometry Testing

Square former geometry testing

Round Former Geometry Testing

50mm Square Forming Shoulder

1" Square Forming Collar