Haas Automation Celebrates 25 Years

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.

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.

Two New Haas Factory Outlets

Haas Automation, Inc., also announced the opening of two new Haas Factory Outlets (HFOs) in India to accommodate the country’s booming manufacturing economy. In the past decade, global economic changes and developments in technology have stoked the fires of Indian industry and increased the demand for machine tools. To meet that demand, Haas has opened HFOs in Bihwadi (near Delhi) and Ahmedabad, increasing the number of HFOs in India to four, with a fifth scheduled to open in Chennai around June.

For more information, contact Scott Rathburn, Haas Automation, Inc., 2800 Sturgis Road, Oxnard, CA 93030, 805-988-6922, Fax: 805-968-6918, E-mail: srathburn@haascnc.com, Web: www.haascnc.com.