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64 www.CNC-West.com CNC WEST December 2017 /January 2018 Industry News vice president of sales at Foothills. “Having access to their technology and combining our engineering, sales and service support teams promise a great outlook for manufacturers in the Rocky Mountain region.” Cincinnati Incorporated Expands Additive Manu- facturing Efforts with Ac- quisition of New Valence Robotics Corporation Cincinnati Incorporated (“CI”) and New Valence Robotics Corporation (“NVBOTS”) announced the clos- ing of CI’s acquisition of NVBOTS. All employees of NVBOTS will be retained and the base of operations will remain in Boston, MA for the foreseeable future. Other terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. CI partnered with NVBOTS as a value-added reseller in 2016 to complement BAAM (Big Area Ad- ditive Manufacturing), its large-scale additive machine tool solution. The NVBOTS small-scale 3D printer, rebranded as SAAM (SmallAreaAddi- tive Manufacturing), offers large-scale designers a “print preview” for large prints and also penetrates new market segments outside the scope of BAAM. “Cincinnati Incorporated’s partici- pation in additive manufacturing has been within the large scale arena with BAAM. NVBOTS naturally compli- ments CI’s capabilities with smaller scale additive manufacturing systems, the growing ability to print in a wide array of materials, and automated solutions including cloud based man- agement software,” said Carey Chen, CI president, CEO, and vice chairman. “This partnership represents an ex- citing opportunity to extend NVBOTS’ core mission to make 3D printing as easy as printing on paper, and to fulfill our long-term vision where anyone can 3D print any part, in any material, anytime, anywhere,” said AJ Perez, NVBOTS chairman and co-founder.