Star SU Names Hans Grass Vice President Machine Tool Group
HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL. — Star SU of Hoffman Estates, IL has appointed Hans Grass as Vice President of its Machine Tool division.
Hans brings 43 years of experience in the machine tool industry, including thirty nine years in management roles – most recently (for 10 years) as Vice President of Engineering for Bourn Koch, Rockford, IL. Prior to the last position, Hans managed the machine tool operation of American Pfauter as Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing for 18 years after various management positions at Pfauter. After the Gleason/Pfauter merger in 1996, starting in 2000, Hans managed the sales and service of all European Gleason operations for the North American market as Director of Distributed Products. Hans also served as President for Index Corporation USA from 1998 and 2000.
Hans has gained in-depth expertise of gear manufacturing machine tools as well as milling, turning, grinding and other machine tools.
Hans was educated in Germany with an excellent Pfauter machine tool apprenticeship program, complemented by 3 years of engineering studies.
About Star SU, LLC
Star SU, LLC offers a wide variety of machine tools, precision cutting tools and services including:
vertical and horizontal gear hobbing machines
chamfering and deburring machines
gear grinding machines
gear shaping and shaving machines
tool grinding machines
gear hobs and milling cutters
indexable gear milling solutions by Sandvik Coromant
gear shaper cutters and shaving tools
scudding® and power skiving tools
chamfer and deburring tools
gundrills
form tools and reamers
carbide blanks and preforms
tool coatings
and tool life cycle management services
Star SU is the go-to-market cooperative partnership of Star Cutter Company of Farmington Hills, MI, and SU America, Inc., the US sales and manufacturing unit to SAMP, S.p.A. The companies together represent one of the world’s largest gear machine, tool and gear tool manufacturing producers.
Contact:
Mark C. Parillo
Star SU, LLC
Phone: 847-649-1450
FAX: 847-649-0112
E-mail: mparillo@star-su.com
www.star-su.com