Manufacturing’s moves, anniversaries, promotions

Big Kaiser celebrates 30 years

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Big Kaiser Precision Tooling Inc. is celebrating its 30^th anniversary. When the company began in 1990, most shops used boring tool technology from the 1950s, where tool changes were a costly and a time-consuming process. Big Kaiser’s sales team set out to take on the industry’s toughest problems and prove the efficiency and time savings of modular boring tools.

Now a member of Big Daishowa Group, Big Kaiser plays an integral role in the company’s worldwide R&D and manufacturing strategy. Big Kaiser develops and provides high-performance tool holders, boring heads, workholding, measuring instruments, and custom engineering support for machining companies.

Haas Multigrind LLC relocates US office

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Haas Multigrind LLC has relocated their US office from Indiana to Charlotte, North Carolina.

The 6,500ft² facility includes office, classroom, and conference space, a machine demonstration area, and spare parts warehouse.

"We are pleased that the new location will enable us to better serve our customers, with better proximity to a major airport and better access to talent to fill key positions within the organization," says Harry Schorner, General Manager of Haas Multigrind LLC.

Horn USA to move to new facility

Horn USA Inc. is moving to a new state-of-the-art facility during the third quarter of 2020. The new headquarters for North American operations is approximately 110,000ft² (10,220m²) and is located 0.5 miles (0.8km) from the company’s current location.

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With the implementation of the new production area, once it reaches full capacity, Horn USA will be able to roughly triple the number of precision cutting tools that it manufactures in Franklin, TN. Future additions will allow for in-house coating as well as toolholder manufacturing. The new warehouse infrastructure will have the ability to immediately ramp up to 350 picked line items per hour.

With 44,600ft² (4,143m²) of production space, the facility holds an additional 27,000ft² (2,508m²) for future growth.

Schunk promotes Allan Logan to Vice President of Sales, Toolholding and Workholding

Schunk has promoted Allan Logan to Vice President of Sales, Toolholding and Workholding. Logan has more than 20 years of territory sales and team management experience in the metalworking industry. He started his career in account management for cutting tools and abrasives before holding various roles as sales engineer, aerospace industry specialist, and regional sales manager.

Since joining Schunk in 2018 as the Director of Sales for Eastern US, Logan has managed a group of regional sales managers across 20 states. His team has been responsible for incremental sales growth in the last two years. In his new role, Logan will drive and execute strategic channel and global focused product initiatives.