Hwacheon Machinery America (HMA) has moved into a new technical center in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire, IL. "Purchased and remodeled by Hwacheon, the building will provide larger quarters for training, a showroom for machine demonstrations, service engineering, spare parts stocking and applications engineering," said Michael Huggett, President of HMA.
The company plans an official grand opening of the facility Sunday September 7, 2014, the day before IMTS 2014 opens its doors. This event will be attended by company officials, dealers and customers as well as Hwacheon Machinery staff.
Hwacheon is supported by a qualified network of 25 dealers in North and South America specializing in the Hwacheon line with professional sales and service staff.
"We are very excited to move into new space purpose-designed to help us support our growing customer base here in the Americas," Mr. Huggett said, "and it is ideally located to provide that support, from training through service and applications engineering." The company also purchased land adjacent to the tech center that can be used for future expansion.
Established in 1952, Hwacheon operates eight machine tool plants, delivering CNC machine tools worldwide annually, half of which are installed in Korea at automotive, die and mold and machining job shops.
A mid-sized machine tool builder, Hwacheon is a vertically integrated firm, operating not only machining and assembly floors and spindle production, but also a foundry in which it casts high quality Meehanite machine bases and columns and another plant producing gears and chucks.
For more information contact:
Hwacheon Machinery America
555 Bond St.
Lincolnshire, IL 60069
847-573-0100
www.hwacheon.com