Manufacturing Showcase
BIG KAISER
By: Russ Willcutt
H
einz Kaiser founded his company in Switzerland in 1948 to provide tooling products throughout Europe. It launched U.S. operations in 1990, just three years before it was acquired by BIG DAISHOWA of Japan, which led to what is now known around the world as BIG KAISER Precision Tooling Inc., based in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. Propelled by the success of its boring tools, BIG KAISER now offers products in eight distinct categories: » Tool Holders » Cutting Tools » Boring Tools » Angle Heads & Speed Increasers » Workholding » Measuring Instruments » Turning Tools » Accessories
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20 IMD FEBRUARY 2021
The products are manufactured by BIG DAISHOWA, Speroni, Innotool, Sphinx, Tekusa, and mptec, based throughout Europe and Asia, for which BIG KAISER is the authorized U.S. distributor, according to Jack Burley, president and COO. “We are represented throughout North America by a network of dedicated territory managers and authorized sales professionals, but all of our products ship from our headquarters in Illinois,” he says, adding that the vast majority of its inventory consists of stock items, with only 5 percent or so requiring customization, allowing for quick order shipment from its 33,000 square-foot facility. The efficiency of this operation is aided by leading-edge technologies tracking the movement of all products from the moment they enter the site until the day they are shipped. This system is constantly updated to ensure that necessary data is available in many forms, at any time.
