For decades, NUM has been a trusted supplier of solutions for the standard machine market. We will continue to utilize the openness of our systems to offer customers in this segment a competitive advantage. We will make the necessary investments needed in R&D to ensure our standard features and functions meet the requirements of this market now and in the future.
As an international company headquartered in Switzerland, we have worldwide sales, application development and service locations. The flexibility and openness of our products allows us to be geographically near to the machine manufacturer to provide engineering services necessary for his specialties respectively. Our R&D facilities are located in Switzerland, France and Italy, where we also have our major manufacturing facility.
Our main CNC hardware production facility is located in Italy. It is our clearly defined strategy that we keep the control over the development and manufacture of the core products in the CNC system, including the drives and motors, in our hands, so that we remain capable to continuously improve the overall performance of a CNC system.