Fives Machining Systems to Add Service Center in Seattle

HEBRON, Ky. DECEMBER 11, 2015 – On January 4, 2016, Fives Machining Systems, Global Services will open a Service Center in Seattle, WA, joining the family of four other North American Service Centers, as Fives expands to meet the needs of its customers nationwide. The Seattle Service Center will stock spare parts, repair unit assemblies, and dispatch service engineers for customers in the northwest. Gerald Turner will be the Director of this service center.
 
The Fives Service Centers are committed to proactively assist customers in maximizing machine performance, and the company’s highly skilled technicians and engineers have a wide range of machining capabilities and expertise. “We believe that understanding our customers’ operations is the best way to offer them customized service solutions that will increase their return on investment,” said Gary Finney, V.P. and General Manager, Fives Machining Systems Global Services.  “We handle everything from spare parts, field service, unit repairs, machine certifications, rebuilds and control retrofits across a variety of industries including aerospace, automotive, energy, defense and heavy equipment.”
 
The network of Fives Service facilities is strategically located near customers where the technician teams can quickly provide maintenance services to help customers: reduce the mean-time to repair, increase equipment reliability, and extend the lifecycle of their machines.
 
Fives Machining Systems is comprised of Fives Cincinnati in Hebron, Kentucky, specializing in machines and systems for the aerospace and industrial sectors; Fives Giddings & Lewis in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, specializing in machine tools for the aerospace and industrial sectors. Fives Liné in Granby, Quebec, Canada specializing in machine tools for aerospace, industrial and rail sectors; Fives Lund, in the aerospace industry. Fives Machining Systems also operates Global Services, which has five North American service centers in Seattle, Washington; Valencia, California; Toronto, Ontario; Hebron, Kentucky; and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
  
About Fives in Metal Cutting and Composites

Fives designs and supplies machine tool and complete manufacturing solutions in a broad range of industrial sectors.

With a strong foundation based upon renowned legacy names such as Cincinnati, Giddings & Lewis, Forest-Liné, Liné Machines and Rouchaud, Fives is recognized as the preeminent provider of outstanding manufacturing solutions.

Five Metal Cutting | Composites dedicated teams – approximately 1200 people in over 15 countries – serve key industrial markets including aerospace, automotive and truck, heavy equipment, oil and gas, rail, wind, energy and general machining. With manufacturing and support operations strategically located worldwide, Fives and its Metal Cutting & Composites businesses offer comprehensive lines of equipment and technologies including automated assembly, laser welding and cutting, turning milling, composites processing and software with the associated support services (maintenance, spare parts, retrofit, overhauling and upgrading).

About Fives

Fives is an industrial engineering Group with a heritage of over 200 years of engineering excellence and expertise. Fives designs and supplies machines, process equipment and production lines for the world’s largest industrial groups in various sectors such as aluminum, steel, glass, automotive, logistics, aerospace, cement and energy, in both developing and developed countries.

In all these sectors, Fives designs and manufactures equipment and innovative solutions, which better anticipate and meet the needs of its customers in terms of performance, quality, safety and respect for the environment.

In 2014, Fives achieved sales 1.56 million Euros and employed about 8,000 people in over thirty countries.

For additional information, see: www.fivesgroup.com.