GF Machining Solutions Names New Canadian Distributor

GF Machining Solutions (Lincolnshire, IL) recently named Machine Tools Systems Inc. (Mississauga, ON), specialists in precise, complex and productivity enhancing grinding and manufacturing solutions, as their new Canada-wide exclusive distributor effective July 16, 2016. The new technologies available to Machine Tool Systems from this partnership increases their ability to provide solutions to shops in the automotive, aerospace, biomedical, die-mold and other key industries. They will now offer EDM, milling and laser texturing to address specialized needs of all customers.

“To further intensify product focus and support with customers, we have named Machine Tool Systems as our new distributor in Canada,” stated Scott Fosdick, the president of GF Machining Solutions. “Their core business is providing highly-engineered machine solutions for high-tech manufacturing.” Current customers in Canada can expect a streamlined transition to the new distributor and will benefit from full-service support that includes a high level of product and industry specialization and an intimate knowledge of the right equipment for their particular applications. For the foreseeable future, GF Machining Solutions will directly handle the service of its Canadian customers’ equipment.

As a result of this partnership, Machine Tool Systems will add a new product manager to exclusively serve the GF Machining Solutions product range. There will also be an applications engineer to assist in the support of customers. GF Machining Solutions will also support the GF Mikron milling products with an experienced full-time service engineer.

Machine Tool Systems will launch a brand new 5,000 sq ft showroom in Mississauga as a demonstration facility equipped with working machines that are also used for applications engineering. On-hand inventory includes GF AgieCharmilles wire and die-sinking EDM technologies and a GF Mikron mill. It also displays a surface grinding system to showcase the complete range of solutions available to the mold and die industries. “We are looking forward to live demonstrations of this equipment and the opportunity to show examples of their technologies to our local customers,” said John Manley, owner of Machine Tool Systems.

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