NUMBER 02 - Haas Automation, Inc.

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.
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