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Abby Marino Solidifies Management Team at R&D MachineOLDSMAR, FL  – November 26, 2024 – The southernmost Compass Precision operating company, R&D Machine already had a strong management team. But it recently became stronger. R&D officially announced on...

Making It Happen, Making His MarkBill Canning (shown at left in photo above taken at customer location) has not quite reached his 2-year anniversary as COO at Compass Precision. That milestone will come in March 2025. But Bill’s Compass tenure hasn’t been short on...

Compass Precision Reaches Company MilestoneCHARLOTTE, NC - October 16, 2024 – A global pandemic. An historic national US election. A disruption in the supply chain. And of course, Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce. A lot has happened over the last five years.  The same...

Picking the Right Milling OrientationCompass Precision added to its technical papers library last month with the release of a publication titled “When Is Horizontal CNC Milling Better Than Vertical Milling?” The authors are Justin Kovscek, Vice President & General...

Riding The Wave There is never an easy time to run a machine shop. Customers either want it all now, or nothing until next year. Good employees are hard or impossible to find. And making that next big machine purchase? Future demand visibility has never been cloudier....

Gray Manufacturing CNC Machinist Receives High HonorMatt Searcy has spent his entire life living in North Carolina. For the last seven years, Matt has called Gray Manufacturing Technologies his work home. General manager Evan Grose and the management team of Gray’s...

Compass Growing in Space, Many Other MarketsCompass Precision is expanding its business into new markets at all of its operating companies. In particular, Compass is growing in the space industry. With that growth, now is a perfect time to talk with Compass VP Sales...

R&D Machine Quality Specialist Receives High HonorLike a lot of Compass Precision employees, Richard Scouten was born to be a machinist. He moved to a farm when he was five years old, which had its own working machining shop with welders, drill presses, saws, and...

Company Set to Meet Customer Demands With Additional CNC Turning CapacityThe eight operating companies at Compass Precision will do just about anything to satisfy a need from a customer. The latest example of that recently occurred at Tri-Tec Industries. In May,...

Creatively Using Fixturing and Programming To Beat The Competition To MarketGetting to market first with a great product is a winning strategy. But in Compass Precision’s world, doing this with geometrically complicated parts is tough. Having plenty of 5-axis mills,...