Cross Huller Opens New Training Center

    STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Jan. 25 Cross Huller announced
today that it has opened a new 6,500 square foot purpose built training center
adjacent to its facility in Windsor, Canada.
    The new training center will offer a full range of classroom and hands-on
training for users of sophisticated Agile CNC production systems and modular
transfer line systems.  Training will include operator training; electrical
and mechanical maintenance training; CNC programming and safety training.
    The training center will initially provide training for major agile
production systems currently being built for Ford Motor Company and Linamar.
Along with classroom instruction there are two Specht high performance CNC
machines, gantry systems and CNC simulators for hands-on training.  Students
will be certified upon completion of the course and annual recertifications
will be offered.
    Cross Huller is a business unit of Huller Hille GmbH, a division of
Thyssen Production Systems.  Headquartered in Essen, Germany, it is a 2.7
billion-DM division of ThyssenKrupp AG, with 8,000 employees in ten countries.
Thyssen Production Systems focuses its global activities on the development,
production and service of metal-cutting machine tools, automated assembly
systems and automotive body shop systems.
    Cross Huller - North America is ISO 9001 certified QS-9000-TE supplement
compliant.  Cross Huller provides low, medium and high volume modular transfer
line and agile production systems to the global automotive and off-
road/construction industries.  Cross Huller - North America, together with
major sister divisions in Ludwigsburg, Germany, and Knowsley, UK, provides a
common global machine tool architecture, while offering local application
engineering and support to each market area's unique needs.