At 21 years of age, Caleb Savage founded CMS Custom Machine and Fabrication LLC, in Hicksville Ohio. At 22 years of age, he invested in his first CNC, a fully loaded Haas VF-4 vertical machining center. Not bad! Click the image above to learn more about Caleb and how he got started. To learn more… Read more →
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Helping Fill The Skills Gap in 2019
HFO Midwest helped local educators fill the skills gap in 2019 by providing $871,811 in grants and equipment discounts! Of that total, $466,000 came from grants provided by the Gene Haas Foundation. Gene Haas founded the foundation and 1999 to partner with schools and organizations to expose students to careers in manufacturing and provide means… Read more →
AREA 419 INCREASES PRODUCTIVITY WITH HAAS 4TH-AXIS ROTARIES
GRAND RAPIDS, OH – Based in Northwest Ohio, Area 419 has grown to become a leading supplier to PRS competitive shooters with their popular muzzle brakes and reloading accessories. Learn how they grew with Haas CNC machine tools and 4th-axis fixtures in this short video. Here’s a list of the Haas technology you’ll find in… Read more →
Keeping Workers Safe at Haas During a Pandemic
So what’s up at the Haas factory in Oxnard California you may be wondering? Haas continues to build and ship machines from California, as well as spare parts from its warehouses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, as part of the critical manufacturing sector. We’d also like to share some of the following measures Haas… Read more →
Strong Demand for Haas CNC Machines in April-May
TWINSBURG, OH – Some positive numbers that may surprise you… In April HFO/Midwest received a 12% increase in orders for Haas CNC machines as compared to April 2019, with strong demand continuing into May. This validates the strength and resilience of Haas users and our local manufacturing community as a whole, which is an encouraging… Read more →
HAAS eKAMI Grand Opening Celebration
PAINTSVILLE, KY – The Grand Opening Celebration of the HAAS eKentucky Advanced Manufacturing Institute (eKAMI) was held on Tuesday, February 20, 2018 in Paitsville, Kentucky. Government officials, educators, industry professionals and business owners attended the dedication, where live-cutting demonstrations were performed on the latest, cutting-edge HAAS CNC machines. The development of the Paintsville HAAS Technical… Read more →
New HTEC Opens at Sullivan College of Technology & Design
LOUISVILLE, KY – Sullivan College of Technology and Design (SCTD) recently celebrated the Grand Opening of its new machine lab, making it the latest Haas Technical Educational Center (HTEC) operating in the state of Kentucky. The new Advanced Manufacturing Technology wing of the college features two state-of-the-art Haas CNC Machine Tools and was created by… Read more →
Precision Tooling Products adds Jobs as well as Advanced Manufacturing Equipment from Haas
MAYFIELD, KY – Precision Tooling Products LLC says it plans to add 10 full-time jobs and invest $450,000 at its machine shop along Ky. 121 southeast of Mayfield. As seen the Mayfield Messeger, story by Hawkins Teague. Precision Tooling Products is a family-owned machine shop that grew into a niche manufacturer of suppressors for the… Read more →
Miners catch second breath with CNC machining
PAINTSVILLE, KY – The Gene Haas Technical Education Center’s CNC Machinist Now Program at Vincennes University offers unemployed eastern Kentucky coal miners a chance to learn CNC machining and bring economic growth to the struggling area. As seen in the November/December issue of Today’s Energy Solutions, story by Arielle Campanalie. The decline of coal mining, the… Read more →
Advanced manufacturing for diesel racing with Haas CNCs
BROWNSBURG, IN – Haas machines allow racing components manufacturer Fleece Performance Engineering to expand, insource parts, and push the limits of how much power a diesel engine can produce. As seen in the November/December issue of Today’s Motor Vehicles, story by Robert Schoenberger. It didn’t start out as a manufacturing business. At first it was… Read more →