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A History of Supporting & Enabling Manufacturing in the USA Empowering People Who Make Things - After 18 Years, Tormach Inc. Continues to Hold True to Its Original Mission
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t Tormach, our mission is and has always been to ‘empower people who make things’. We are dedicated to providing exceptionally engineered compact CNC machines, tooling, and related products with best-in-industry technical support and customer service. Our focus is to help our customers turn their concepts into reality by providing the tools and information that help them be successful with CNC. Our flagship products are our PCNC, or Personal CNC, series of machine tools. Tormach mills, lathes and routers have become the CNC machine of choice for inventors, small/boutique manufacturers, garage entrepreneurs, product developers, hobbyists, educators, and people who make things around the world.
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34 IMD JULY 2020
The Personal CNC Story Our company has grown quite a bit from modest beginnings. Like many of the businesses that use our CNC machines, Tormach was started in a garage – not too far from our current shop near Madison, WI. Back in 2001, two friends had a series of casual conversations, basically maligning how there were no good small CNC machines available for inventors, R&D professionals, or small manufacturers. Both had expertise in manufacturing automation: one of the two owned a specialty tool company, and the other was general manager of a technology research company. Both agreed they could really make use of an affordable small CNC machine – whether for prototyping products or for specialty manufacturing – if only such a
