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75K My, How You’ve Grown! Haas Automation Installs 75,000th CNC machine tool. Story and photos by Matt Bailey It hardly seems possible, but on May 31, 2007, Haas Automation installed its 75,000th CNC machine tool.* When one considers that more than two- thirds that number have been sold in the last 7 years, and that the company designs and builds its machines at a single plant in Southern California employing just 1100 people, it’s even more incredible. And to think that less than 20 years ago, skeptics the world over doubted that any US company could ever build machine tools economically again, let alone on such a scale. *By the end of 2007, there were 85,000 Haas CNC machine tools installed around the world. | www.HaasCNC.com
Steffen Brück, general manager of the Haas Factory Outlet for Baden-Württemberg – Nord, a division of Brück Machines. Recipient of the milestone machine was German company MEPO Minoudis GmbH & Co. KG, a family-owned, second-tier automotive components supplier based in Korb, in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg. The company already has four other Haas vertical machining centres; the new VF-3SS high-speed machine will, like the others, be set to work machining parts destined for local companies Porsche, Bosch and Mercedes, plus a number of other prestigious domestic and overseas car builders. At a special hand-over ceremony to mark the occasion, Haas Automation General Manager Mr. Bob Murray traveled all the way from the company’s US head-office to meet the owners of MEPO and to personally thank them for their purchase. “Installation of the 75,000th machine is a very special occasion for Haas Automation,” says Mr. Murray, “and we’re very pleased that it has been installed at MEPO, a successful and growing company with high standards and demanding customers; they are very typical of the sort of companies we work with around the world.” Also present at the ceremony was Mr. Peter Hall, managing director of Haas Automation Europe, and the man responsible for leading the company’s meteoric growth on the continent. “It’s fitting that the 75,000th Haas CNC machine tool should be installed in Europe,” Mr. Hall says. “Although obviously not Haas’ home market, it’s an incredibly important one for the future prosperity of the company. “To counter threats from low-cost countries, European manufacturers are under enormous pressure to increase productivity and keep costs and overheads low and under control. By providing simple, reliable and very productive CNC machines, Haas helps them to do just that.” Mr. Hall also claims that in the machine-tool industry, the old-world order has been all but overthrown by the upstart California company and its no-nonsense approach to providing companies with the tools they need to make a good living. CNC MACHINING |
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