Murata Machinery USA Celebrates 40 Years
The machine tool and automation supplier has grown into four divisions involved in turning, fabrication, logistics and automation, clean factory automation and textiles.
Posted: October 23, 2014
This year, Murata Machinery USA, Inc. (Charlotte, NC), is celebrating its 40th year in business. The company is widely recognized as a leader in reliable, high production machine tools and innovative industrial automation that offers sales, service and support in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The company is a subsidiary of Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan) and is comprised of four divisions – Machine Tools, made up of Turning and Fabrication business units, Logistics and Automation, Clean Factory Automation and Textiles.
Predating Murata Machinery USA by 12 years, the Logistics & Automation Division began servicing North American customers in 1962. Murata is the world’s fourth-largest turnkey installer of automated material handling systems, with more than 11,000 systems in place.
The Clean Factory Division focuses on automated material handling that meets the stringent contamination-free standards of clean room operations. Today, Muratec material handling systems set the industry standard for clean room environment transport and storage.
The Murata Machine Tools Division is comprised of its Turning and Fabrication business units.
Murata Machinery has engaged in creating lathes for the turning market since 1961. Originally, the company made lathes for Warner & Swasey Company in the 1970s and 1980s. Murata purchased Warner & Swasey in the mid 1980s and established the current organization. The Turning business unit focuses on an extensive line of CNC turning machines and high-speed automation. Murata continues to create innovative, industry-leading single- and twin-spindle turning machines for a variety of industries. Decades in the making, the company’s reputation for precision, high production turning centers remain solid.
The Fabrication business unit specializes in applications, service and sales of turret punch presses, fiber lasers and automation for those machines. This unit began as Murata-Wiedemann in 1989 upon Murata’s purchase of the storied Wiedemann line. Murata builds on the tradition of innovative design, reliability and productivity that began with the introduction of the first Wiedemann punch press in 1934.
The Textile Division was the flagship product line at Murata Machinery’s inception 40 years ago. Since then, it has developed numerous proprietary technologies that have forever changed the textile industry. These technologies have contributed to improved quality in textiles and knitted products, and the brand is now highly regarded as a leading innovator in automated textile machinery.
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