Mazak Corporation Canada

About Mazak Canada Corporation

Yamazaki Mazak Corporation entered the North American market in 1968, opening its first subsidiary outside of Japan in Long Island, New York. Six years later, the company built its North American headquarters and manufacturing facility in Florence, Kentucky to meet the unique requirements of the region. Then In 1987, Mazak further expanded into North America by opening a service center in Mississauga, Ontario, to support Mazak machine tools sold to Canadian customers through local distributors.

Twenty years later, May 2007, Mazak opened its Canadian Headquarters and Technology Centre in Cambridge, Ontario, to provide comprehensive sales, service and support that exceeds the unique, highly diversified demands of the Canadian manufacturing marketplace. (Initially, Mazak Canada Corporation was responsible for only Eastern Canada, but in October 2007, it began serving the entire country.)

Since 2007, Mazak machine tool sales in Canada have increased by 50 percent. The company sells direct in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario while distributor partners serve Quebec and the Maritime provinces.

The Mazak Canadian Headquarters and Technology Centre cover 2,044 square meters of space on a 1.53-hectare site. Here, the company employs five applications engineers and three distributor-support engineers as well as hosts regular Mazak machine training classes and large-scale educational events. Customers can also visit the location to see demonstrations on the latest Mazak technology and perform test cuts.    

Today, Mazak Canada Corporation provides a wide breath of high-performance machine tools, advanced technologies and innovative processes, giving each of its customers access to everything they need to run a highly productive, quality-driven manufacturing business. In fact, Mazak offers the largest support infrastructure of any machine tool brand in Canada and has played a role in making the country one of the eighth largest manufacturing markets in the world.