Makino
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Makino is a US firm that manufactures lathes and machine tools.
It was founded in Cincinnati in 1887 as the R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company. The firm was quick to take advantage of automobile mass production in the early 20th Century, and developed specialized lathes for that industry. It also manufactured a small line of aircraft engines during the "Golden Age" of the 1930s. In 1950, together with General Electric, LeBlond developed the first numerically controlled lathe.
In 1981, the Japanese Makino Milling Machine Company acquired a controlling interest in LeBlond, renaming it first LeBlond Makino, and by the end of the decade, simply Makino
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- US Industry Today Vol 4 No.3
- American Machinist 1 August 2000
- LeBlond USA website
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