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Keith Wenzel Takes the Reins at StromNORTH PLAINS, OR - March 18, 2025 - Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of customer, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, announced Tuesday that it has hired Keith Wenzel as its new...

Making Customers’ Lives EasyCompass Precision is a leading supplier in CNC machined and fabricated parts. Compass makes components with demanding geometries, tight tolerances and exacting surface finishes. Some of the materials it works with are difficult to machine,...

2022 Second Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision keeps a very high standard for all of its employees. Then, when an employee matches or exceeds that standard, they are rewarded. One of the most public ways Compass Precision rewards its employees is with its...

Advanced Machining Fulfilling Full-Range of Part Size CapabilitiesTo specialize in 5-axis CNC milling capabilities, a machine shop can’t have just one 5-axis machine. It also can’t have all 5-axis machines of a specific type. That’s why Advanced Machining &...

Making It Happen, Making His MarkBill Canning (shown at left in photo above taken at customer location) has not quite reached his 2-year anniversary as COO at Compass Precision. That milestone will come in March 2025. But Bill’s Compass tenure hasn’t been short on...

Compass Precision Reaches Company MilestoneCHARLOTTE, NC - October 16, 2024 – A global pandemic. An historic national US election. A disruption in the supply chain. And of course, Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce. A lot has happened over the last five years.  The same...

Picking the Right Milling OrientationCompass Precision added to its technical papers library last month with the release of a publication titled “When Is Horizontal CNC Milling Better Than Vertical Milling?” The authors are Justin Kovscek, Vice President & General...

Strom Machinist Receives Great Honor It doesn’t get much better than the string of introductions Strom Manufacturing has experienced the past few years. After recommendations from a few different people, Chris Salinas began working at the Compass Precision operating...

Riding The WaveThere is never an easy time to run a machine shop. Customers either want it all now, or nothing until next year. Good employees are hard or impossible to find. And making that next big machine purchase? Future demand visibility has never been cloudier....

Compass Growing in Space, Many Other MarketsCompass Precision is expanding its business into new markets at all of its operating companies. In particular, Compass is growing in the space industry. With that growth, now is a perfect time to talk with Compass VP Sales...

Company Set to Meet Customer Demands With Additional CNC Turning CapacityThe eight operating companies at Compass Precision will do just about anything to satisfy a need from a customer. The latest example of that recently occurred at Tri-Tec Industries. In May,...

Creatively Using Fixturing and Programming To Beat The Competition To MarketGetting to market first with a great product is a winning strategy. But in Compass Precision’s world, doing this with geometrically complicated parts is tough. Having plenty of 5-axis mills,...

Compass Precision Shop Distinguishes Itself At Supplier SummitOLDSMAR, FL – February 27, 2024 – R&D Machine proudly announced Tuesday that it received a 2023 Supplier Excellence Award from Honeywell Aerospace at the company’s Space Supplier Summit held last week...

Eight Shops Together Better than Eight Shops by ThemselvesCompass Precision would seem like an amalgamation of precision CNC machine shops, thrown together through financial engineering by modern versions of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan. The company’s Pittsburgh...

Advantages of Horizontal MillingTraditional machining, CNC or otherwise, is done with the cutting tool rotating vertically. Many skilled machinists have never done milling any other way. But things are different at Strom Manufacturing, Compass Precision’s shop in the...

2021 Second Half EOM Honorees Then and NowSome consider Compass Precision unique for its public recognition of employee achievements. But top management sees it differently. “Honestly, I think we are different from most companies, but not because we have an Employee...

Precision Components Manufacturer Gains Space Beach PresenceCHARLOTTE, NC – January 9, 2024 – Compass Precision announced Tuesday that it has opened a satellite sales office in Long Beach, CA, where an increasing number of emerging space companies have headquarters or...

Manufacturer of Custom, Precision Components Gets Enhanced On-Line PresenceCHARLOTTE, NC – December 13, 2023 – Compass Precision announced Wednesday that it has launched a new website at www.compassprecision.com touting its capabilities. Founded in 2019 when it...

Compass Strives for Really Good to GreatCompass Precision has purchased eight precision CNC machine shops in its short four-year history. It targets a very particular type of shop. To learn more, we recently spoke with CEO Gary Holcomb. What Is Compass Looking for...

Strom Manufacturing Machinist Earns Outstanding AchievementRodolfo Nicolas Baltazar holds his co-workers at Strom Manufacturing in high regard. He explained that a lot of his fellow employees at the Compass Precision operating company are friends both inside and...