How a Garage Machinist Fought Japan's Machine Tool Invasion on American Soil
In 1983, while the American machine tool industry was collapsing under the weight of Japanese imports, a machinist in California started selling a modest programmable indexer that almost nobody mistook for the beginning of a revolution. From that unglamorous product, Gene Haas built Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the Western world. This is the complete story of how one garage-born entrepreneur found a way to win in an industry that seemed already lost, from the legendary VF-1 vertical machining center to a federal tax fraud case, prison... -- Sources consulted and referenced in our research: Wikipedia, Haas Automation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_Au... Wikipedia, Gene Haas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Haas Haas Automation official company history: https://www.haascnc.com/about/history... Wikipedia, Haas F1 Team: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_F1... Wikipedia, Stewart-Haas Racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart... Wikipedia, Gene Haas Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ha... Haas Automation official site: https://www.haascnc.com ---- Copyright © 2026 The Gear Archive. All rights reserved.
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