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Milltronics Names BC MacDonald Distributor Exclusive for Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri
Waconia, MN – Milltronics has named BC MacDonald of St. Louis, Missouri as its exclusive full-service distributor for Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri effective immediately.
Established in 1927, BC MacDonald represents specialty tooling and gaging manufacturers throughout the Midwest, providing technical sales and support for a variety of specialized cutting tools and dimensional gaging products.
Joining the Concept family, the acquisition positions both companies for growth, and together will reach nine states including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska.
“Acquiring BC MacDonald makes Concept a stronger partner for our customers and suppliers,” said Andrew Hecker, CEO of Concept. “With BC MacDonald’s rich history, strong team, complementary geography and product lines, and a similar dedication to delivering the right solutions for its customers as Concept, this is a great match. We are investing for growth.”
“We’re excited to be representing Milltronics,” said Travis Salter, Vice President of Sales and Service at BC MacDonald. “Milltronics offers its customers affordable and well-built CNC machines equipped with a logical control that illustrates the power of simplicity for the operators and the power of sophisticated control technology for their shops.”
“BC MacDonald is a great addition to the Milltronics dealer network,” said Louie Pavlakos, Milltronics General Manager. “We know they’re going to help us sell machines in Southern Illinois and Eastern Missouri, but even more important we know they value and provide the highest level of service and support to their customers.”
Concept Appointed Exclusive Distributor for STAR CNC
Minneapolis, MN – March, 2022
STAR CNC has appointed Concept as its exclusive distributor for its Swiss-type Machine Tools through nine states for sales, service, and consumables.
STAR CNC is pleased to be working together with Concept Machine Tool (Concept). Concept has a proud heritage of machine tool, metrology and 3D sales, applications, and service since 1974, and will represent STAR CNC in Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, Southern Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, and North Dakota.
Concept is proud to provide world class machines, innovation, and technology to precision machining, aerospace, and medical parts industries. Star CNC Machine Tool Corp. is among the leading providers of superior technology and service to the machine tool industry.
Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Delafield, WI, with sister companies BC MacDonald (St. Louis, Missouri) and Metrology Center (Lisle, Illinois), Concept is well equipped to serve customers’ needs for Swiss-type Machine Tools including service and applications questions.
Concept has a trained service and applications team to support your investment. Moving forward if you have any needs for sales, service, and consumables please reach out to Concept Machine Tool for world class solutions.
Concept Machine Tool (Concept), established in 1974, has been recognized for their industry-leading sales and service programs. For over 45 years, Concept has focused on being a partner to our customers, not just a supplier. Concept provides high-end solutions that keep our customers ahead of the competition, along with the support they need to handle the toughest manufacturing challenges.
About STAR CNC:
Founded in 1948, Star CNC is a division of Star Micronics Co., Ltd. of Japan, one of the world’s most respected manufacturers of Swiss-type turning machines for the production of small, complex and precise metal components. They are Star Micronics’ exclusive distributors in the United States.
Star CNC’s mission is to continually develop fast and efficient high quality, reliable and robust machines to manage the rigorous demands of today’s fast-paced 24/7 production environment. Star CNC looks beyond machine dynamics as their engineers seek to continually improve machine ergonomics, machine/worker safety and advance environmentally-friendly production. Application engineers are dedicated to helping their customers find the optimal off-the-shelf or custom configured Star CNC machine solution to deliver maximum production efficiency and cost-savings.
Concept Appointed Exclusive Distributor for Farsoon Technologies
Minneapolis, MN – July 2021
Farsoon Technologies has appointed Concept as its exclusive distributor for its metal and plastic laser powder bed fusion 3D printers and additive manufacturing products through nine states for sales, service, and consumables.
Farsoon is pleased to be working together with Concept Machine Tool (Concept). Concept has a proud heritage of machine tool, metrology and 3D sales, applications, and service since 1974, and will represent Farsoon in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.
Concept is proud to provide world class machines, innovation, and technology to precision machining, aerospace, and medical parts suppliers. Farsoon’s high quality, industrial level machines are an excellent fit to its other complementary product lines.
Located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Delafield, WI, with sister companies BC MacDonald (St. Louis, Missouri) and Metrology Center (Lisle, Illinois), Concept is well equipped to serve customers’ 3D printing and applications questions and equipment needs. Concept may also be able to help customers with 3D print jobs- please inquire for availability.
Concept has a trained service and applications team to support your investment. Moving forward if you have any needs for sales, service, and consumables please reach out to Concept Machine Tool for world class solutions.
Concept Machine Tool (Concept), established in 1974, has been recognized for their industry-leading sales and service programs. For over 45 years, Concept has focused on being a partner to our customers, not just a supplier. Concept provides high-end solutions that keep our customers ahead of the competition, along with the support they need to handle the toughest manufacturing challenges.
About Farsoon Americas:
OPEN FOR INDUSTRY – Farsoon Technologies is a global manufacturer and technology innovator offering an extensive product line of industrial level polymer and metal laser powder bed fusion systems featuring a variety of build sizes and processing capabilities that suits many industries and markets. Farsoon collaborates with many industry-leading companies as well as pioneering researchers to successfully grow additive manufacturing all over the globe. Farsoon Americas Corp. is located in Austin, Texas, USA with a dedicated team of additive experts in sales and field service support catering to the North American market
Concept acquires BC MacDonald and Metrology Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 5, 2021
Concept, a Midwestern US capital goods and consumables distributor, has closed on its acquisition of BC MacDonald and its subsidiary Metrology Center. Concept sells and services specialty machine tools, measuring and gaging equipment, and additive manufacturing equipment along with related consumables across six states. BC MacDonald sells and services measuring and gaging equipment, specialized cutting tools, and cutting fluids and coolants across four states.
The acquisition positions both companies for growth. Together, the combined company reaches nine states including Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Nebraska. With nearly 100 team members and deep functional expertise in automation, machining, precision measurement, and additive manufacturing, the combined company serves as a one-stop shop for aerospace, medical device, heavy machinery, general industrial and defense industries and their tiers.
“Acquiring BC MacDonald makes Concept a stronger partner for our customers and suppliers,” said Andrew Hecker, CEO of Concept. “With BC MacDonald’s rich history, strong team, complementary geography and product lines, and a similar dedication to delivering the right solutions for its customers as Concept, this is a great match. We are investing for growth.”
US manufacturers rely on precision measuring equipment to produce engineered products with ever tighter tolerances. Both Concept and BC MacDonald provide these to customers, along with value-added training, service and support. Both also support a continued trend in automation, whether partial or fully lights out, helping manufacturers retain or re-shore operations in the US.
“Through three generations BC MacDonald has worked hard to be better and the acquisition by Concept will assure our customers, employees and suppliers we have achieved this for yet another generation.” Adds Reggie MacDonald, President of BC MacDonald “Concept’s solid reputation in machine tools, metrology, perishable tooling and services is complemented by BC MacDonald in this Midwest market and our customers and suppliers will benefit from our combined talents.”
Concept and BC MacDonald have commenced informing customers and suppliers of the combination and plan future announcements supporting their combined growth plans.