Haas Automation will be demonstrating several of its latest CNC machine tools at this year's Asian Machine Tool Exhibition (July 27-30, 2012), at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, including an ST-30 CNC turning centre, an ST-20Y with live tooling and its hugely successful DT-1 drill tap centre, launched only two years ago. The company will be exhibiting its machines in Hall 12 A, Booth C1.

"AMTEX promises to be a key exhibition for us this year," says Haas India managing director, Terrence Miranda, "which is why we opted to be one of its sponsors. The events in Europe, currency fluctuations and global economic uncertainty are all combining to create tough trading conditions, especially for importers like Haas. However, irrespective of where a small to mid-sized machine shop is based, they all share the need for reliable, high-productivity, well-supported and affordable machine tools."

The largest CNC machine tool builder in the Western World, Haas Automation manufactures a full line of CNC vertical and horizontal machining centres, CNC lathes, rotary tables and 5C indexers. Haas products are built to the exacting specifications of founder Gene Haas, to deliver combined accuracy, repeatability, durability and value greater than any other CNC machine tool on the market.

"Notwithstanding the difficult trading conditions, we are expecting good enquiry levels at AMTEX and a positive second half to 2012," says Mr Miranda.

Part of Haas' sustained success and growth over the years is undoubtedly due to its relentless innovation of new, improved CNC machine tool technology, making high-productivity available and accessible to even the smallest machine shop. Many of the machine models on show at AMTEX - indeed, most models in the company's extensive range of CNC machine tools, are latest-generation products introduced in the last 3-5 years but with more than two decades of continuous development behind them.