Amada Miyachi Europe Acquires MacGregor Welding Systems

Monrovia, CA – Amada Miyachi America Inc., a leading manufacturer of welding, marking, cutting, sealing, and bonding technology, announces that it's sister company, Amada Miyachi Europe, has acquired Macgregor Welding Systems of Suffolk, England, a leader in the design and manufacture of precision micro joining equipment. MacGregor Welding Systems products include DC micro resistance welding equipment, micro pulsed arc, percussive arc and other welding technologies. With this acquisition, Amada Miyachi Europe is able to expand its range of products and services to meet the complete joining needs of its global customer base.

“Acquiring MacGregor creates an excellent opportunity to grow the business through the effective collaboration of the Amada Miyachi Europe and MacGregor teams and to further develop new resistance welding and other welding products that meet the demands of modern industrial customers worldwide,” said David Fawcett, Group CEO and President Amada Miyachi America and Amada Miyachi Europe.

MacGregor Welding Systems produces resistance welding equipment. Additionally, the company designs and produces automatic and semi-automatic integrated resistance welding and related process systems, ranging in size and complexity from single work cells to fully-integrated, multi-station production line systems. The company’s in-house expertise in mechanical engineering, electronics design, software, and power system control engineering enables it to build customized equipment to meet each customer's specific requirements.

“We believe that the MacGregor Welding Systems has developed superior engineering capabilities, excellent customer relationships and a differentiated line of products which complement our line of business,” Fawcett added.