www.HaasCNC.com Haas Automation, Inc. 51 There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a construction site before the machines arrive — the quiet of 234 acres of Nevada desert, graded flat, waiting. In the fall of 2024, that quiet broke. Cranes rose against the Henderson sky. Concrete trucks began their slow processions. Gene Haas, the machinist-turned-founder who built a company out of a single patented part four decades ago, stood at a podium alongside Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo and broke ground on the largest single bet of his company’s history: a 2.4-million-square-foot manufacturing plant, the second in Haas Automation’s history, and a declaration that the largest machine tool builder in the Western world has no intention of slowing down. Two-point-four-million square feet is not an expansion in the ordinary sense — it is closer to a doubling. It is the kind of number that shows up in headlines about aerospace campuses or auto plants, not in a press release from a company that already runs the largest, most modern machine tool manufacturing operation in the United States out of Oxnard, California. But that has always been the pattern with Haas: the company does not grow by increments. It grows in leaps. HENDERSON BY THE NUMBERS SITE SIZE: 2.4 MILLION SQ. FT. LAND PARCEL: 234 ACRES PLANNED INVESTMENT: $400+ MILLION NEW JOBS WITHIN 5 YEARS: 1400 GROUNDBREAKING: OCT. 2, 2024 TARGETED COMPLETION: NOVEMBER 2026
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