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How many do they sell per year...one..two ?? Have never heard of anyone actually buying a new Wells Index mill in the past decade....maybe the government buys a few ? Have not seen them at any trade shows in decades, no ads in magazines, etc. I suspect their sale figures are so low as to be a moot point for this sort of discussion.Wells Index mills are still made in the USA from US made castings.
Re actual USA manuf...Fryer, Cubic and Hurco are highly suspect in that list..esp Cubic.US Machine builders both forming and chip making:
MAG Group (Cincinnita, G&L, Fadal, Lamb, etc)
Ingersoll Machine Tools (Large Mills and fiber placement machines)
MegaFAB: W. A. Whitney (punch/plasma machines - punching machines), Piranha & Bertsch
Bardon & Oliver (CNC lathes)
The Monarch Machine Tool Co. (Cortland, NY: CNC VMC)
The Minister Machine Tool Co. (large presses)
Cincinniti Inc. (press brakes, CNC laser cutting machines)
Bourn & Koch (gear making machines - special machines)
The Gleason Works (gear making machines)
Vermont Machine Tool (owners of Bryant Grinders)
Seneca Falls Machine Tools (CNC lathes and speciality machines)
Fryer Machine Tools (CNC mills and lathes)
Hardinge
Haas
Stripit
Saginaw Machine Systems
Lucas Precision
Cubic Machinery
Hurco
Moore Tool
DoAll
[The high end lathes from Hardinge are made in Upsate NY yet. /QUOTE]
I'm gonna say...NOPE
I wouldn't waste any on Hardinge....They will probably continue to make workholding & some tooling there. Beyond that, Elmira will become an assembly operation but the parts, castings and large scale machining will be sourced...and most likely not on shore.
They could have surpassed Haas if they paid attention to their customers
and designed, built, and sold accordingly, including -price-.
Rather than ride (coast) on the name and maintain the 'we are the best, and can price as such'....head in the sand attitude that prevailed for the last 20+ years.
Gene Haas said he'd eat 'em for lunch, and it damn sure looks like he did just that overall. Mostly by selling what his customers want, and by providing acceptable service and repairs.
Are there any machines other than HAAS that are made and owned in the USA?
Milltronics
Haas use mostly imported parts... ballscrews, linear guides, servo and spindle motors, cartridge spindles, ATCs, hydraulic units, lube pumps, coolant pumps, oil chillers, etc. Castings are made in "North America", which includes Mexico.
Companies like Toyota, with manufacturing plants in the US, are often criticized for using foreign suppliers. Haas does the same thing but gets away with it.
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