Kitamura partners with Great Lakes Machinery, DiPaolo Machine Tools

Kitamura Machinery, the premier manufacturer of precision horizontal, vertical and 5-axis machining centers, has announced that Great Lakes Machinery has been awarded exclusive rights to represent the company’s products in Upstate New York. Family owned and operated, Great Lakes Machinery has more than 40 years’ experience selling, installing, training, and servicing the latest and most reliable CNC machine tools in the world.

“Great Lakes Machinery takes immense pride in announcing its partnership with Kitamura Machinery in Upstate New York,” says Thomas McArdle, president, Great Lakes Machinery. “Since 1989, we have been servicing customers throughout western and central New York, from Albany to Buffalo, with the motto “Business with Integrity” and we take that very seriously. This exciting new partnership allows us to provide our customer base with the high-quality, high-precision Japanese machine tools with a level of craftsmanship, accuracy, and ingenuity second to none.”

Every Kitamura machining center is designed with superior deflection-free construction, simplicity of operation and unrivaled precision. Craftsmanship in hand scraping, solid box guide ways and gear driven spindle technology combine with state-of-the art innovations to last longer than competitive machines, continuing to provide a return on investment long after units from other manufacturers have been replaced.

“We are very excited to partner with the team at Great Lakes,” says David Lucius, Kitamura’s Vice President of Sales. “They have a long history of providing quality machine tools to customers in Upstate New York. Great Lakes reputation for outstanding service and support will enable our Kitamura users to increase profitability.”

In the other partnership agreement, Kitamura Machinery is partnering with DiPaolo Machine Tools Ltd. as the new exclusive distributorship for the sales and service of Kitamura products in eastern Canada to include Ontario, Quebec, and Maritime Provinces.

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Providing sales, service, applications, training, retrofitting, rebuilding and remanufacturing services on machine tools of all kinds, DiPaolo offers single source manufacturing solutions for a wide range of industries from high-speed machining for the die mold industry to automotive, production machining and tool room equipment sales.

“We are excited to represent Kitamura Machinery in Eastern Canada,” says Nelson Martins, president of DiPaolo Machine Tools Ltd. “With more than 50 years of supporting industry through innovative solutions and a dedication to customer service, DiPaolo’s strategic partnership with Kitamura and their full line of vertical, horizontal and 5-axis machining centers will help fill a void in the market.”

“DiPaolo Machine Tools history of rebuilding complex machine tools and commitment to engineered solutions makes for a perfect partnership in representing Kitamura Machinery in Eastern Canada,” states Dave Lucius, vice president of sales at Kitamura Machinery. “We are looking forward to working with DiPaolo’s multi-disciplined team to offer customers improved productivity with State-of-the-art machining centers that offer heavy-duty cutting performance, superior accuracy, operator convenience and long-term reliability.”