Strausak Names New President
Joe Kane now leads their precision grinding business.
Posted: February 21, 2018
As company president, his focus is on accelerating innovation and customer-focused applications in the precision grinding space for the cutting tool industry.
Strausak Inc. (Mundelein, IL), a subsidiary of Rollomatic SA (Le Landeron, Switzerland), has appointed Joe Kane as their company president. Based at their North American office located in Mundelein, he is focused on accelerating innovation and customer-focused applications in the precision grinding space for the cutting tool industry. With over 14 years in the manufacturing and quality industry, he began as a metrology technician in the United States Marine Corps and translated those skills into a service engineer role in the workholding industry, focusing mainly on custom chucks for CNC lathes.
Kane has served as a product manager for a company, selling 4th- and 5th-axis rotary tables where he set up distribution and service channels throughout North America. Prior to joining the company, he was a sales manager for an Illinois-based machine tool importer and distributor, specializing in automated, turnkey systems for production machining.
“Joe’s impressive track record working as a sales manager for other CNC machine tool companies and his ability to communicate and relate to people make him the ideal leader,” said Eric Schwarzenbach, the president of Rollomatic Inc. (Mundelein, IL). “Such qualities are key to expanding the brand name and drive the ever-evolving new technologies of the company. We fully expect that his talents will support the profitable growth of our business.”
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