Rego-Fix Opens Expanded Facility in Whitestown
Switzerland-based Rego-Fix Tool Corp. on Thursday opened a 12,000-square-foot addition to its existing facility in Whitestown that company officials say will partly serve as an incubator for other foreign companies that want to do business in Indiana.
Rego-Fix, which makes precision tool-holding parts for the aerospace, medical and power generation industries, relocated in 2017 from Indianapolis to Whitestown, where it built an initial 20,000-square-foot facility.
Rego-Fix General Manager of Americas Bill Obras said the Center for Machining Excellence at 4420 Anson Blvd. will help companies from Europe and elsewhere that are interested in setting up shop in Indiana. He described it as a place for a company to have an office with a couple of employees and use the facility as its base to get started in the Hoosier State.
Rego-Fix will also use the Center for Machining Excellence to attract people from across the machine tool industry to share, sample and test different types of technology produced by the company’s manufacturing partners.
“When we designed the center for this technology-sharing partnership, we thought, well, why don’t we also include in there an opportunity to have partners from Europe come in and call that their hub,” Obras said. “We can incubate, get them started and as they grow, they will then go get their own locations, and ideally, we want to do that in Indiana.”
Rego-Fix’s current roster of manufacturing partners at the Center for Machining Excellence is Swiss-based Tornos Machine, German-based Microtechnik and SolidCAM, and Japan-based Kitamura Machinery.
