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The Cincinnati Milling Machine Company was an American machine tool builder headquartered in
Frederick Geier and the Cincinnati Mill
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The Cincinnati Milling Machine Company was an American machine tool builder headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio
Cincinnati ( ; colloquially nicknamed Cincy) is a city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Settled in 1788, the city is located on the northern side of the confluence of the Licking River (Kentucky), Licking and Ohio Ri ...
. Incorporated in 1889, the company was formed for the purpose of building and promoting innovative new machine tool
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designs, especially milling machines. The principals in forming the company were Frederick A. Geier and Fred Holz. It was formed from the Cincinnati Screw and Tap Co., a partnership of George Mueller and Fred Holz, that became more successful building machine tools.
From the 1890s through the 1960s, the Cincinnati Milling Machine Company was one of the biggest builders of milling machines. The company became the US's largest machine tool builder by 1926. It also built various other classes of machines, such as planers and grinding machine
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s. In 1970, it was reincorporated as Cincinnati Milacron Inc. and later as Milacron Inc. The machine tool business line was later sold to Unova, and portions operated as Cincinnati Machine Company. An India
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n subsidiary, Cincinnati Milacron Ltd, is now called Ferromatik Milacron India Pvt Ltd.
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Frederick Geier and the Cincinnati Mill
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''. November 5, 1951. quoting Frederick V. Geier
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{{Authority control Manufacturing companies established in 1889 History of Cincinnati Machine tool builders Manufacturing companies based in Cincinnati 1889 establishments in Ohio Defunct companies based in Cincinnati