who's out of BUSINESS?

[sbeaks]

Hardinge? Okuma? Bridgeport? Hitachi Seiki?

 

what's in the rumor mill?

[Guest]

I heard from a Haas Rep. that Hitachi Seiki was bought out by Mori Seiki.

[limitless creativity]

Mori Seiki has purchased Hitachi Seiki for their R & D and facility. I was told that Mori will build a new facility there.

 

Who is NEXT????

 

OKUMA

 

Also heard that Hardinge purchase Bridgeport.

 

Mike

 

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[mold100]

sbeaks, welcome to forum.

 

I heard that Bridgeport is being bought out, but not by who.

[d0gFartz]

Supposedly Bridgeport is really hurting from law suits stemming from there God awful DX32 controllers......so says one of there Eastern AE`s

[chris m]

Okuma won't be going anywhere, I don't think

 

Based on their customer service aptitude, Mazak SHOULD go out of business...

[TheePres]

My boss attended IMTS, and he came back with these rumors also. WOW!!! is it really this bad, i was under understanding that JSF program would kick everything back up again. Maybe time to consider new career.

[Grant]

Hi Guys,

I was talking to a Mori (factory) service engineer, they have indeed bought Hitachi Seiki's R&D dept. They are in the process of building a new factory in Tokyo; it will be open by the end of Oct. They are planning on calling the company Mori - Tec (spelling may be wrong) My Japanese is no good!

Grant

[Guest]

JSF won't kick in until 5 to 6 year's down the road. they are in the enginerring stage right now. but, it is still slow. when the military programs get started, it won't be enough machinist to fill the positions. machinist pay is cheap right now because so many are unemployed and no body is hiring. and the ones that are hiring only want to pay $12.00 an hour to program,set-up,operate,etc. it's a shame. only the strong is going to survive. the rest will be left behind.

[mold100]

Just curious, What is JSF and who and what is it implying to?Which part of industry?

[Charles Davis]

JSF is the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter. It may be the biggest aerospace contract ever; thousands of planes.

 

It is designed to replace the Navy F-18, Air Force F-16 and Marine AV-8. It comes in several models (land based, sea based and, believe it or not, Vertical Takeoff).

 

Stealthy, fast, agile.

 

I hear rumors, though, that some in the Pentagon want to leap-frog the technology and go to all unmanned strike fighters; flying attack robots, in effect, lobbing GPS guided bombs. Cheaper, higher capacity, and no pilots to take as POW's.

 

Boeing already has flown a prototype, and the CIA is putting missiles on Predator unmanned vehicles. Both the Predator and Global Hawk were developed in San Diego.

[mold100]

Thanks for the input. Sounds like it could eventually mean ALOT of work.

[KMaynard]

Brigeport is slated to close its doors either this month or next ...

[d0gFartz]

Thats something, as long bridgeports been around and now there closing up

[Guest]

Lockheed was the winner in the JSF contract. and yeah, it is the largest in history. but there are others. general dynamics just won a huge contract to build the next generation of battle ships. i think san diego area GD won that.

[sbeaks]

You guys are all hearing what I'm hearing.

Is Okuma moving out of North Carolina?

[sbeaks]

any other new on the buy-outs, or some good news?

[Scott Bond]

I heard that the Japan government is putting in a bid to buy the "ALAMO" the land and building. But the Arabs said that they wouldn't be selling.