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Article: Technical member profile: Index Corporation.(company profile)(Company Profile)
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- Production Machining
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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The Index Group, located in Esslingen, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of precision turning and multitask machine tools. Its products include single- and multi-spindle equipment, as well as sliding headstock machines.
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The company was founded in 1914 and began exporting its products to the United States in 1923. Today, with more than 2,000 employees worldwide and an international network of distributors, the group provides machine sales, service and engineering to a range of manufacturers. Index Corporation, Index Group's American subsidiary, was established in 1983 in Shelton, Connecticut. As it grew, it added ...