Chicago, Illinois, June 12, 2006 – Mori Seiki USA, an internationally recognized machine tool manufacturer of machining centers and CNC lathes, has relocated its US headquarters to Rolling Meadows, Illinois in the greater Chicagoland area. The new Chicago headquarters will hold national responsibility for sales, applications engineering, service, technical communications, training, marketing, administration and automated systems.

Mori Seiki USA’s previous headquarters, located in Irving, Texas, will continue to support its southern customers as one of the company’s seven Technical Centers. Technical Centers provide an additional resource of support for customers and provide training for distributors, ensuring the finest and most responsive support structure in a local setting. The American parts center will remain in Dallas, although Mori Seiki also provides parts, local sales, service and training support through its local distributors.

“Relocating Mori Seiki USA’s headquarters to Chicago was a strategic move for the company,” said Thomas R. Dillon, president of Mori Seiki USA. “The consolidation of personnel into one facility will allow for additional efficiency of operations, as well as heightened communication and accessibility for our customers.”

Mori Seiki Co., Ltd. is headquartered in Nagoya, Japan and maintains five manufacturing facilities in that country. All critical components are manufactured in-house, which include ball screws and ball nuts, spindles, machine beds, CURVIC couplings, cone couplings, saddles, and hand-scraped ways. These outstanding facilities deliver the highest quality machines for ultimate reliability, accuracy, and precision.

Mori Seiki produces extremely reliable machine tools and distributes worldwide. The U.S. headquarters is in Chicago with offices in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, and New Jersey. For more about Mori Seiki and the products in the Mori Seiki line, visit www.moriseiki.com or call (847) 593-5400.