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GF Machining Solutions Secures Major U.S. Aerospace Order

GKN Aerospace orders several high precision milling machines, software and automation.

Posted: June 28, 2017

Pictured from left to right at the signing celebration between GF Machining Solutions and GKN Aerospace: Martin Thorden, the general manager and vice president of GKN Aerospace; Philipp Hauser, the head of Turbine Group – Liechti; Jennifer Riley, the supply chain director of GKN Aerospace; Mike Costello, the sales manager of North America / Turbine Group – Liechti; and Jon Ford, the director of engineering for GKN Aerospace.

GF Machining Solutions LLC (Lincolnshire, IL) has won a significant order from GKN Aerospace New England, Inc. (Manchester, CT), one of the world’s largest independent first tier aerospace suppliers. GKN ordered several high precision milling machine tools, software and automation that will all be backed with GF Machining Solutions training, service and support. Liechti Engineering AG (Langnau, Switzerland), one of the companies under the GF Machining Solutions brand umbrella, will build the new machine tools and GKN will use them to produce key stator vanes for jet engines. Order delivery is expected to happen between the third quarter of 2017 and the second quarter of 2018.

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