HAAS Company is a major Western machine tool manufacturer with complete CNC vertical machining centers, horizontal machining centers, CNC lathes and rotary product lines. HAAS founded Haas Automation, Inc. in 1983 to manufacture economical and reliable machine tools. The company entered the machine tool industry with its fully automatic programmable chuck divider, a device used to position parts for high-precision machining. The patented HAAS 5C chuck divider was a huge success, and over the next four years the company expanded its product line to include a variety of fully programmable turntables, rotary dividers, and machine tool accessories.