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ELMIRA, New York, Dec. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Hardinge Inc., a leading international provider of advanced metal-cutting and material-cutting tool solutions and accessories, today announced plans to shift the manufacturing of its milling and turning machining center solutions from the Hardinge Taiwan plant to its plant in Elmira, NY, USA. This strategic manufacturing transition focuses product development, supply chain, and assembly operations for the Company's Americas and Europe turning and milling business to a single U.S. based location. Hardinge will now supply customers with a stronger line of innovative, high-quality milling and turning products assembled in the USA.
The Company will be repatriating the manufacturing of its Bridgeport® XR Series of vertical machining centers and the Hardinge® TALENT Series of turning products. Hardinge will now manufacture the Bridgeport and TALENT Series' in the Company's Elmira, New York facility which has been a crucial production site since 1931. Hardinge is modernizing this facility, investing significant resources in new assembly capabilities as well as state of the art heat-treat equipment to better support the initiative. Hardinge has begun the transition process already, and will complete the manufacturing start-up of this new assembly line in Elmira, NY during the first quarter of 2021. These product lines will be available in the US market through Hardinge's valued distribution partners—Gosiger and Morris Group Inc.. The Elmira, NY plant is also home to the production of Hardinge workholding products, Super-Precision CNC Lathes and the Bridgeport Knee Mills.