XLI Corporation
Purchases New Toyoda FA400 for Enhanced Capabilities

(Rochester, New York) XLI Corporation today announced the purchase of a new Toyoda FA400 Horizontal Machining Center. The FA400 is the company's first horizontal machining center. XLI Corporation currently owns six vertical machining centers.

"A horizontal machine is the next logical step in the development of our machining business," said Peter Schott, President of XLI. "Our customers require Just-In-Time production for their products. We need to eliminate non-value added activities such as machine set-ups. Our plan is to automate our machining services with robotic pallets, common tooling, integrated job scheduling, and multiple spindles. The FA400 is a natural extension of our current capability and a steppingstone to a more sophisticated flexible manufacturing system that will meet the needs of our customers."

"We chose the Toyoda for its compact size, high speed, value, expandability, and reputation for reliability," Schott continued. "The dual pallet FA400 enhances our machining capabilities and allows us to consider novel approaches to programming, tooling, and work holding that are not possible on our vertical machines."

XLI Corporation, (www.xlionline.com) located at 950 exchange street in Rochester, NY is a full-service manufacturer of precision engineered components and assemblies for some of the nation's leading suppliers of mass data storage, circuit board insertion, digital imaging and printing, manufacturing automation, medical diagnostics, office automation, process control, and telecommunications equipment.

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