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62 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST December 2017 /January 2018 Industry News Shawn Luschei Rejoins Kitagawa NorthTech Shawn Luschei has rejoined Kitagawa NorthTech as senior man- ager of sales for North America. With more than 23 years of workholding industry experience, he will be re- sponsible for managing regional sales managers, supporting OEMs and channel partners, and further devel- oping the engineered rotational and prismatic workholding business for the company. Mr. Luschei began his career in workholding with Kitagawa North- Tech in 1994 as an inside sales repre- sentative and was promoted to various sales management positions during his 17-year tenure at the company. In 2011, he left to launch Toolmex’s new work- holding and power chucks division. Titanium Coating Services Moves Into Larger Location Titanium Coating Services has moved into a new 4000 sq ft. facility to keep with the growing demands of their business. The owner Mahesh Sukumaran stated, “Our state of the art PVD coating machine is from Performcoat. Performcoat is owned by the ex President of Balzers USA. We can do different types of coatings in this machine like – TiN – TiCN – AlTiN – TiAlN – CrN – CrCN – ZrN and Hybrid Coatings like - TiAlCN – AlTiCN – AlCrN – AlTiCrN – TiCrN – AlTiSiN – AlTiCrSiN etc. We use a state of the art Ultrasonic Cleaning ma- chine to clean parts before coatings”. Mahesh also stated, “We have a CEO Mahesh Sukumaran