Haas Automation Celebrates 25 Years of Affordable Technology! |
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Haas Automation, Inc.
2800 Sturgis Ave.
Oxnard, CA, 93030
USA
 
Press release date: March 28, 2008
March 28, 2008
In 1983, Gene Haas founded Haas Automation, Inc., to manufacture the industry's first fully automatic programmable collet indexer. Designed to increase production in Gene's own machine shop, the Haas 5C indexer was an instant success, and over the next 4 years, the product line expanded to include a wide selection of fully programmable rotary tables, indexers and machine tool accessories.
In 1988, Haas Automation achieved another industry milestone by introducing the first American-built vertical machining center (VMC) to sell for less than $50,000 - a price unheard of at the time. The Haas VF-1 sold for a published price of $49,900, and quickly became the industry benchmark for affordable CNC technology.
Today, 25 years later, Haas Automation is the world's leading manufacturer of CNC machine tools - building, selling and shipping more machines per month than any other single builder in the Western World. All Haas products are manufactured in the company's 1-million-square-foot facility in Southern California, and distributed through a worldwide network of more than 120 Haas Factory Outlets. Each HFO has complete showroom facilities, factory-trained service personal, extensive spare-parts inventories and fully stocked service vehicles to provide the industry's best service and support.
From the start, Haas Automation has provided reliable, affordable machine tool solutions - at published prices - to job shops and contract manufacturers around the world, relying on volume sales rather than per-unit profit to build the company. Extensive use of lean manufacturing methods and just-in-time production practices allows the Haas Automation to produce high-precision CNC products while maintaining exacting quality and value-based pricing.
At present, there are more than 85,000 Haas CNC machines and 53,000 Haas rotary products in use around the world. In 2008, the company will build more than 14,000 machines, with around 60 percent of them going to international markets. About HAAS Automation: The world's leading CNC machine tool builder, Haas Automation manufactures a full line of CNC vertical and horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes, rotary tables and 5C indexers. Haas machine tools and rotary products are built to deliver higher accuracy, repeatability and durability than any other machine tools on the market.
From its beginnings in 1983, Haas Automation has always produced top-quality products at affordable prices. By relying on volume sales rather than per-unit profits to build the company, Haas delivers more standard features, high-tech innovations and rock-solid engineering than perhaps any other CNC manufacturer in the world - and at better prices!
Scott Rathburn, Marketing Product Manager srathburn@haascnc.com (805) 988-6922 HAAS Automation 2800 Sturgis Road Oxnard, CA 93030 USA Phone: (800) 331-6746 Fax: (805) 278-8540
http://www.haascnc.com/home.asp
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