New Regional Sales / Technical Sales Specialist for Haimer USA

Forrest Walker joined Haimer USA as Regional Sales / Technical Sales Specialist in August 2021. In his new role, he supports end-users, distributors and partners of HAIMER in the Great Pacific Northwest with sales and technical support. In addition, he works with distribution partners and customers to offer quality solutions to increase their productivity. Forrest attended Skagit Valley College and has been in the aerospace machine support industry for the past 10 years. 

“I’m excited to use my experience to improve the industry’s capability and performance,” Forrest explains. “I really enjoy the welcoming atmosphere, the vast expertise of the industry and the ‘can do’ attitude of the HAIMER team.”

Forrest Walker joins the company as Regional Sales / Technical Sales Specialist.

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, 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 recently 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.