Fives Giddings & Lewis to Celebrate 160 Years
Fives Giddings & Lewis celebrates 160th anniversary in 2019.
FOND DU LAC, Wis., January, 2019 – 2019 is a big year for Fives Giddings & Lewis as it celebrates its 160th anniversary, with a special celebration happening this summer. What started back in 1859 as a lumber equipment job shop has grown and evolved with the demands of the markets, touching several industries along the way. Fives Giddings & Lewis still stands today in the same location as in 1859, at the corner of Doty and Rees Street. In 1902 we began producing machine tools, starting with engine lathes and boring mills. During WWI and WWII a large portion of the business was in government work as our nation’s defense department and military took first priority. In 1955 the first commercially available CNC was created in partnership with MIT. Current innovations include the Integrated Contouring Head and new Vertical Turning Center and Milling Product Lines. The company has been part of the Fives Group since 2013.
Fives Giddings & Lewis will be running a couple of contests throughout 2019.
Invitations to the celebration later this year will be sent, welcoming customers, suppliers and other key industry partners for an open house event. As part of the year-long celebration of events in 2019, Fives Giddings & Lewis is running a couple of contests! Think you have the longest operating Giddings & Lewis machine on your shop floor? Submit a video of it still in operation at your facility to be entered. Giddings & Lewis will also share the top 160 reasons “Why Buy G & L” throughout the year. The top 3 reasons submitted will receive a prize. If you would like to make sure your name is on the invitation list to join our open house celebration and see the latest machine tool technology, or, if you would like more information on the contests, please contact Kimberly Prophett (Kimberly.prophett@fivesgroup.com).
About Fives in Metal Cutting | Composites
The Metal Cutting │ Composites offer is specialized in the supply of machine tools and complete manufacturing solutions.
With a strong foundation based upon renowned legacy names such as Cincinnati, Giddings & Lewis, Forest-Liné, Liné Machines and Rouchaud, Fives is recognized as the preeminent provider of outstanding manufacturing solutions which are at the heart of its customers’ performance.
Fives Metal Cutting | Composites dedicated teams – approximately 1200 people in over 15 countries – serve key industrial markets including aerospace, automotive and truck, heavy equipment, oil and gas, rail, wind, energy and general machining. With manufacturing and support operations strategically located worldwide, Fives and its Metal Cutting | Composites activity offer comprehensive lines of equipment and technologies including turning, milling, composites processing and software, additive manufacturing, laser welding and cutting with the associated support services (maintenance, spare parts, retrofit, overhauling and upgrading).
About Fives
Fives is an industrial engineering Group with a heritage of over 200 years of engineering excellence and expertise. Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world’s largest industrial groups in various sectors such as aluminum, steel, glass, automotive, logistics, aerospace, cement and energy, in both developing and developed countries.
In all these sectors, Fives designs and manufactures equipment and innovative solutions, which better anticipate and meet the needs of its customers in terms of performance, quality, safety and respect for the environment.
In 2017, Fives achieved a turnover of 1.9 billion Euros and employed close to 8,700 people in about thirty countries.
Press contacts:
Fives Giddings & Lewis:
Kimberly Prophett
+1 920 906 2566
kimberly.prophett@fivesgroup.com
Fives Group:
Pauline Chay
+33 1 45 23 76 54
pauline.chay@fivesgroup.com
