Renishaw has purchased the business of R&R Sales LLC, a U.S-based leader in fixtures for the global measurement and inspection market. The acquisition of R&R supports Renishaw’s increasing focus on metrology system sales, such as those involving the company’s new Equator gage, which requires fixturing devices. Family-owned R&R has 19 employees and is based in Grand Haven, MI.For over 20 years the company has supplied the global measurement market with both modular and custom fixtures for CMM and vision systems.The R&R Fixture is widely used to hold parts for dimensional inspection in almost every manufacturing field, from automotive, aerospace and electronics tomedical and household appliances. John Ray, President of R&R, said, “We all look forward to this new opportunity and being a part of the Renishaw Group. We sincerely believe that Renishaw’s extensive worldwide network of offices will help promote our fixturing on a more international basis, and we also hope to incorporate Renishaw’smanufacturing processes within our plant to further improve our operational efficiencies.We have had a long relationshipwith Renishaw, Inc. in the U.S. and now look forward to building newrelationshipswith Renishaw officesworldwide.” Renishaw Chairman and Chief Executive Sir David McMurtry said, “We are very pleased to announce our acquisition of R&R Sales.We have known the company and its products formany years, and it has a very strong presence in the USA where it supplies fixturing to many manufacturers. With our new measurement products, such as the Equator gage, and our existing global customer base for measurement products, we believe that we can significantly expand the market for R&R fixtures.” R&R Fixture/Sales and Engineering has moved to a new location in Grand Haven,MI. The new facilitywill give R&R the opportunity to expand its manufacturing and engineering capabilities in metrology fixturing. R&R Fixtures has been a CMM and vision fixturing supplier to automotive, appliance, aerospace, electronics, medical, industrial and numerous other industries worldwide for the last 20 years.The new address for R&R Fixture is 1809 Industrial Park Dr., Grand Haven, MI 49417. For more information contact: Renishaw Inc. 5277 Trillium Blvd Hoffman Estates, IL60192 847-286-9953 usa@renishaw.com www.renishaw.com