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I just bought my second Haas CNC mill. I use them primarily to make parts for implantable medical devices, but they could just as easily make parts for small arms, guided missiles, or aircraft. Most big names in CNC machine tools are Eastern; Japanese, Taiwanese, or Chinese, with a few European. Haas, the biggest and most well known Western manufacturer of CNC machine tools, stands accused of continuing to supply Russian companies involved in military manufacturing, long after the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Documents filed with the U.S. Treasury and Department of Commerce indicate that RATEP is one of many Russian enterprises that Haas Automation has serviced with direct shipments of goods in that period.
Per the aforementioned PBS Newshour report, the American company allegedly approved as many as 18 shipments to Russia between March and October of 2022 to the tune of $2.8 million.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Monday March 20, @07:54PM (1 child)
That's taking it a bit far. Haas could have made a lot more money from reduced costs and access to larger markets if they's offshored their operations. They didn't, and that's worth something. Screwing up sanction enforcement is not, by itself, enough to make them un-American.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 20, @09:13PM
I respectfully and strongly disagree with your attitude of complacency. "Screwing up sanction enforcement..." is called negligence. It shows an unpatriotic, bordering on traitorous anti-America attitude. This isn't oops, we sent them some G.I. Joe toys. This is very powerful war machine power boosters. It needs to be treated as critically as Pu-239.