Just seven years after Haas Automation (
www.haascnc.com) installed its 75,000th CNC machine, the company has reached another major milestone and doubled this quantity. The 150,000th Haas CNC machine — a DS-30SSY dual-spindle turning centre with Y axis — ‘rolled off’ the production line on 19 January and was installed last month at the Swedish company Claesson Engineering.
Nick Remington, managing director of Haas UK, said: “Installation of the 150,000th machine is a very special occasion for Haas Automation. The fact that it was bought by a European company — in the relatively high-cost region of Scandinavia — is further proof that the Haas combination of value, performance, reliability and support is the right one for any market. In the UK, we have installed over 1,000 machines in the last 26 months.”
Haas Automation’s world headquarters in Oxnard, California, is a ‘state of the art’ manufacturing facility that recently expanded to 1.3 million sq. ft. The company
produces all critical components in-house, making extensive use of lean manufacturing methods and just-in-time production practices.
The widespread use of automated loaders and pallet systems allows ‘lights out’ operation for increased productivity and efficiency.