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Article: DEATHS JAMES GEIER, MILACRON PRESIDENT.(NEWS)(Obituary)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2001
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Byline: Post staff report
James Geier, a member of Cincinnati Milacron's founding family and a former leader of the industrial company, died Wednesday at the age of 75.
Mr. Geier died from complications of heart failure. The initial illness came upon him while enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, racing his sailboat near his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
Mr. Geier was recognized as the leading architect of Cincinnati Milacron's diversification beyond machine tools, into businesses like industrial robotics, production of computer controls and semiconductor materials and other facets of factory automation. He was described in a 1984 ...