Haas Automation
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| Industry | CNC Machine Tools, Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1983/ |
| Founder | Gene Haas |
| Headquarters | Oxnard, California, United States of America |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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| Owner | Gene F. Haas |
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Number of employees
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1,500 (worldwide, 2013) |
| Website | www.HaasCNC.com |
Haas Automation, Inc is an American machine tool builder headquartered in Oxnard, California, that designs and manufactures precision machine tools and specialized accessory tooling, mostly computer numerically controlled (CNC), such as vertical machining centers and horizontal machining centers, lathes/turning centers, and rotary tables and indexers. Most of its production and manufacturing process occurs at the company's main facility in Oxnard.
Haas is one of the largest machine tool builders in the world by total unit volume.
Gene F. Haas founded Haas Automation in 1983 to manufacture machine tool accessory tooling. The company entered the machine tool industry with the first fully automatic, programmable collet indexer, Over the next four years, the company expanded its product line to include fully programmable rotary tables, rotary indexers, and machine tool accessories.
In 1987, Haas Automation began developing its first vertical machining center (VMC) the VF-1, a machine designed to perform operations such as milling, drilling, tapping, and boring. The first VF-1 prototypes were completed in 1988, and introduced at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS '88) in Chicago, Illinois.
The company manufactures several lines of CNC machine tools for the metalworking industry.
Haas Automation is an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. All machine tools carry the ETL Listed mark, certifying that they conform to the NFPA 79 Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery and the Canadian equivalent, CAN/CSA C22.2 No. 73. The company has completed the certification process that is required to affix the CE mark to its products.
Haas started out in 1983 with limited local distribution of its products in Southern California, eventually expanding into the United States, Canadian, and United Kingdom markets. In 1988 the company began establishing overseas markets, beginning with Denmark, Holland, and Israel. In 1993, Haas began private labeling products for Swiss machine tool builder Mikron, which provided additional distribution of the company’s machines in the European market. In 2000, Haas established Haas Automation Europe in Brussels, Belgium, to distribute Haas-branded products directly in Europe, and began phasing out the relationship with Mikron.
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