Eastern Promise

Zaventem, Belgium. June 26, 2009: In the latter half of May, the Russian Haas Factory Outlet (HFO) - a division of Abamet Ltd - opened 5 HTECs, including one in the capital, Moscow. Abamet is one of Haas’ longest established and best-performing HFOs and has already founded 4 Haas Technical Education Centres (HTECs) in Russia and Belarus.

It’s not many towns that can celebrate two HTEC grand openings on the same day, but on May 25th in Samara, - a large Russian city located approximately 870Km east of Moscow - the Samara College for Industry and Pedagogical Sciences (SIPK), and the Samara Metallurgy College (SAMEK) both hosted their own HTEC ribbon-cutting events and celebrated the beginning of a new era in CNC training.

SIPK specialises in preparing staff for technical schools and its new HTEC is equipped with two Haas CNC machine tools: a TM-1 Toolroom Mill and an SL-20 Turning Centre. The opening event was attended by almost 40 people, including representatives from the regional Ministry of Education.