The entrepreneurial spirit struck Gene Haas at the machine-tool industry's lowest point—the 1980s. The Japanese were going head-to-head with the U.S. on price—and winning. Scores of U.S.-based machine-tool manufacturers closed shop. Gene Haas became a customer whose needs weren't being met, so he started his own business. Today, Haas Automation Inc. is the largest volume producer of CNC machines. And as far as Haas and his executive team are concerned, it's going to stay that way.
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