Kurt Manufacturing Appointed Exclusive North American Marketing Agent For Leader Chuck Clamping Systems


Minneapolis, Minnesota: Kurt Manufacturing Company, Industrial Products Division, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Leader Chuck Systems Ltd. of Birmingham, England and its North American importer, Manufacturer's Technologies, to market the Leader Chuck MMY MultiChuck Concentric Clamping Systems in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

The announcement was made jointly by Mr. Mark Jones, managing director of Leader Chuck Systems Ltd. and Mr. Steve Kane, sales and marketing manager for Kurt. The agreement is effective January 1, 2006 with the Leader MultiChuck MMY product line to be marketed through an exclusive Kurt distributor dealer network.

The Leader MultiChuck MMY product line consists of manual self-centering static workholding for machining centers, milling machines and grinders. These products integrate with Kurt's high density workholding towers and other devices to provide the ultimate in high productivity and high precision workholding.

"Adding the Leader MultiChuck MMY System to Kurt's high density workholding offerings gives our customers more options in designing the highest productivity workholding for their machines," stated Mr. Kane for Kurt. "Our vise customers are looking for ways to expand their machine output and Leader MultiChuck MMY products have a proven track record of award-winning performance for many years throughout the United Kingdom and Europe."

Mr. Jones reported, "Like Kurt workholding in U.S. industry, Leader Chuck is a very successful brand for over 50 years in European industry. We are extremely pleased to be a partner with Kurt to bring to North American manufacturers new workholding options for both new and existing machine setups."

First introduced in 1961, Kurt vises are the workholding leader with more than 500,000 vises sold during that period. Kurt offers a full line of single and multiple station vises and towers and is the only vise manufacturer to offer a Lifetime Ironclad Warrantee on the products it manufactures.

For more information about the Leader MultiChuck MMY product line from Kurt, call in USA and Canada at 1-800-328-2565. Outside USA and Canada, call 1-763-572-4424.

See at www.kurtworkholding.com

Email: workholding@kurt.com

Or write to Kurt Manufacturing Company, Industrial Products Division, 1325 Quincy Street NE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413. In USA, Fax 1-877-226-7828. Outside USA, Fax 1-612-623-3902.

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