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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....

Gray Manufacturing CNC Machinist Receives High HonorMatt Searcy has spent his entire life living in North Carolina. For the last seven years, Matt has called Gray Manufacturing Technologies his work home. General manager Evan Grose and the management team of Gray’s...

Compass Growing in Space, Many Other MarketsCompass Precision is expanding its business into new markets at all of its operating companies. In particular, Compass is growing in the space industry. With that growth, now is a perfect time to talk with Compass VP Sales...

2022 First Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision has a high standard for its employees. When that high standard is met and even surpassed, Compass awards its people. One of the ways the company does that is with its Employee of the Month program. The honor...

Douglas Machining Machinist Earns Outstanding AchievementAaron Nelson experienced a very successful tenure at Fastenal to begin his CNC machining career. That stint was approaching a decade, but then an opportunity knocked at the door. “Two former co-workers of mine...