CHICAGO, Illinois – DMG Mori Seiki has announced the opening date for their new facility in Davis, California. The factory, which began operation in August, will have a grand opening ceremony on November 7th, 2012.

President, Dr. Masahiko Mori, Senior Executive Operating Director, Dr. Rudiger Kapitza, and DMG/Mori Seiki USA’s President, Mark Mohr, spoke at a press conference at IMTS 2012, announcing the new facilities and a number of new products.The opening of the US facility implies DMG Mori Seiki are confident that recent reshoring of manufacturing work to the US will continue.

Industrial growth is coming back to the US and overall production is coming back. In the world machine tool market, we predict the US will pass Germany at number three for the first time in eight years because of the recent Eurozone crisis, Kapitza said.

MILLTAP 700

Also emphasized was the company’s philosophy to build a better workforce.

“The old way of thinking is that factories just make products but… a very important role of the factory is to create skillful engineers.”

The company also took the opportunity to unveil a number of new products. The Milltap 700 was given particular praise by Dr. Mori, partly due to its high-speed tool changer that can swap tools with a change time of 1.1 seconds. It also consumes 30 percent less energy and has a 10 percent smaller footprint without compromising work area.