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Keith Wenzel Takes the Reins at StromNORTH PLAINS, OR - March 18, 2025 - Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of customer, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, announced Tuesday that it has hired Keith Wenzel as its new...

Douglas Machining Reaches Company MilestoneHard work always pays off. Dan Douglas is the living embodiment of this saying being true. After working 15 years for machine shops around Winona, MN, Dan decided it was time to work for himself. So, he opened his own machine...

Making Customers’ Lives EasyCompass Precision is a leading supplier in CNC machined and fabricated parts. Compass makes components with demanding geometries, tight tolerances and exacting surface finishes. Some of the materials it works with are difficult to machine,...

2022 Second Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision keeps a very high standard for all of its employees. Then, when an employee matches or exceeds that standard, they are rewarded. One of the most public ways Compass Precision rewards its employees is with its...

Another Compass Precision Success StoryWINONA, WI  – December 17, 2024 – Compass Precision proudly announced several success stories during the course of 2024. These projects involved one or more of its operating companies going above and beyond to satisfy a...

Advanced Machining Fulfilling Full-Range of Part Size CapabilitiesTo specialize in 5-axis CNC milling capabilities, a machine shop can’t have just one 5-axis machine. It also can’t have all 5-axis machines of a specific type. That’s why Advanced Machining &...

Douglas Machinist Receives High HonorShane Aukrust first identified Winona, MN as a place where he would like to live. In search of a machining job in the area, it then didn’t take long for him to find Douglas Machining Services. Shane found the Compass Precision...

Making It Happen, Making His MarkBill Canning (shown at left in photo above taken at customer location) has not quite reached his 2-year anniversary as COO at Compass Precision. That milestone will come in March 2025. But Bill’s Compass tenure hasn’t been short on...

Compass Precision Reaches Company Milestone CHARLOTTE, NC - October 16, 2024 – A global pandemic. An historic national US election. A disruption in the supply chain. And of course, Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce. A lot has happened over the last five years.  The...

Riding The WaveThere is never an easy time to run a machine shop. Customers either want it all now, or nothing until next year. Good employees are hard or impossible to find. And making that next big machine purchase? Future demand visibility has never been cloudier....