Haimer USA and GWS Tool Group Form Safe-Lock Partnership

GWS Tool Group, an industry leader in custom cutting tool manufacturing, and Haimer USA, a global market leader in tool holding technology, have recently signed a U.S. licensing agreement for HAIMER’s patented Safe-Lock anti-pullout system.

Brendt Holden, President of Haimer USA states, “We are very happy to have formed a partnership with GWS, undoubtedly one of the fastest growing cutting tool manufacturers in the business. Their high-quality milling solutions are perfectly suited for the HAIMER Safe-Lock system. I fully believe GWS aerospace customers will welcome the security, balance, and precision of the Safe-Lock System that will ultimately ensure they can maximize their productivity.” 

“At GWS, the Custom Comes Standard mantra is meant to encapsulate how we deliver our dynamic value proposition to the marketplace” says GWS CEO, Rick McIntyre. “We lead with our ability to serve as a single-source supplier for virtually all custom tooling needs, which we design and build in one of our many factories. Partnering with HAIMER to provide the industry standard in pullout protection, Safe-Lock, further strengthens our ability to deliver optimized milling solutions to our customers.”

Since its creation, the Safe-Lock system has continued to grow rapidly in the U.S. market across all industrial sectors. The success of the system has largely been fueled by its popularity as more and more manufacturers recognize increased productivity due to the pull-out protection Safe-Lock provides. Safe-Lock, which emerged from the requirements of heavy-duty machining, initially made a name for itself in the aerospace and energy industries. However, cost and time savings are not solely restricted to typical aerospace applications and have also been found in typical milling applications.  In particular, the increase in customers utilizing the modern high efficiency dynamic milling strategies available from the CAM software companies, have found Safe-Lock to be an absolute necessity. For more on Safe-Lock, visit our website.

About HAIMER

HAIMER is a family run, medium sized company located in Igenhausen, Bavaria near Augsburg, Germany. We design, produce and sell innovative, high precision products for metal cutting as well as for other branches including automotive, aerospace and defense, medical, energy, rail and general machining. Next to our large offering of tool holders in all popular interfaces and lengths, including our shrinking and balancing machines, as well as our 3D-Sensors, solid carbide cutting tools our product offering now also includes tool presetting machine.

Out of approx. 800 employees worldwide, 500 work at our only production facility in Igenhausen together with the most modern of machines and a high level of automation. At our second HAIMER production site in Bielefeld with around 50 employees, HAIMER Microset presetting machines are produced. Our experienced, dynamic and highly qualified employees guarantee the well-known and highest quality “made by HAIMER.” As an active apprenticeship company, with almost 50 apprentices and a high rate of hiring, HAIMER is able to secure its future skilled employees and to fulfil its contribution to further educate young adults, as well as securing the future of our German manufacturing location. As the European market leader in the area of tool holding technology, with a daily capacity of approx. 4,000 tool holders, keeping the technological edge of our products is very important to us. Because of this, every year we invest between 8 and 10% of our revenue in research and development. Every day we desire to be better and that works perfectly with our corporate philosophy: Quality Wins.

At Haimer USA, we have expanded our headquarters in order to implement a state of the art technical center that allows us to show our full product offering. HAIMER USA is located in Villa Park, Ill., a western suburb of Chicago conveniently located near O'Hare International airport and all major highways.