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The Fair Friend Group, Taiwan`s largest machine-tool conglomerate, has kicked off a five-year US$1 billion investment plan to set up plants across the Taiwan Strait, invest overseas, engage in overseas merger and acquisition.
So far this year, the group has acquired five overseas machine-tool firms in three nations, including Jobs, Sigma and Sachman of Italy, DMC of South Korea and a Japanese machine-tool firm with 100 years of history, as well as nine factories and five brands. Moreover, the group will acquire two machine-tool firms by the middle of this year.
The chairman Jimmy Chu says the acquisition of the three Italian machine-tool firms will help to upgrade manufacturing skill as Italy is the world`s fourth-largest machine-tool manufacturer, only behind China, Japan and Germany, as well as turn Fair Friend into one of Italy`s largest machine-tool conglomerates this year.
Chu says that Jobs, specializing in production of five-axis high-speed double-column machining centers, is Italy`s largest machine-tool manufacturer and a top-3 in Europe. About 60% of Jobs`s products use linear motors to meet needs of the aerospace, nuclear energy, wind generation, engineering machinery and automotive sectors; while the acquisition of Jobs can fill in the technological gap in Taiwan`s machine-tool industry.
Sachman focuses on production of large floor-type boring machines, and five-axis CNC boring machines used in the industries of aerospace, automobile parts, molds and healthcare.
DMC is South Korea`s six-largest machine-tool manufacturer, with the acquisition to help Fair Friend raise annual sales in South Korea to over US$100 million from NT$100 million.
| Product Model | Inside Diameter | Outside Diameter | Thickness |
| BRI487232U IKO | 76.2 | 114.3 | 51.05 |
| BRI82016UU IKO | 12.7 | 31.75 | 25.65 |