Compass Precision Adds 10th Operating CompanyCHARLOTTE, NC – November 18, 2025 – Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of custom, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, announced Tuesday it has acquired Trutron Corporation...

Compass Precision Operating Company Adds New Vertical Machining CenterCHARLOTTE, NC – November 11, 2025  – Another year is winding down. But nothing is slowing down at the machine shop that’s home to the Compass Precision headquarters. Quality Products & Machine,...

Pair of Douglas Machining Services CNC Operators Earn Prestigious Honor TogetherZak Douglas (pictured above left) and Ben Neefe (above right) have known each other since they were about eight years old. They’ve been best friends since fourth grade and lived together...

Compass Precision Reaches Another Company MilestoneCHARLOTTE, NC – October 16, 2025 – Birthdays can be a difficult time for some Americans. So much so that it isn’t uncommon for people to shed a tear or two for growing another year older. There was no crying on the...

Compass Growing With Seamless Operating Company Acquisitions Compass Precision is growing its business in multiple ways. One of the fastest ways is through acquiring more operating companies. Compass announced purchasing Pocasset Machine Corporation in Pocasset, MA on...

First Half of 2023 Employee of the Month Honorees Then & NowCompass Precision has high expectations for its employees at all nine operating companies. When those expectations are met and even exceeded, those workers become eligible for the Compass employee of the...

Quality Products Vice President Reaches MilestoneCHARLOTTE – September 9, 2025 – Quality Products & Machine, LLC has experienced terrific growth recently. The inception of that growth happened about two years ago. Then, the Compass Precision operating company...

Mike Kane Enters Leadership Role at Compass Precision’s Latest Acquisition POCASSET, MA – August 20, 2025 – Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of custom, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, officially announced...

Long-time Employee Receives Promotion to Leadership RoleSALISBURY, NC – August 7, 2025 – Early in his tenure at Advanced Machining & Tooling, Patrick Reynolds learned his first important lesson from President Keith Felts. “The guys in the shop scrapped an...

Compass Moves Advanced President Into New Corporate PositionCHARLOTTE, NC – July 31, 2025 – It’s been awhile since Keith Felts worked anywhere else besides Advanced Machining & Tooling.  Keith became the company’s president when he co-founded it in 1985. He was in...

Compass’s COO Expands His RoleCHARLOTTE, NC – July 24, 2025 – Hard work pays off. At Compass Precision, the cliché applies to the newest employees at the entry level and to the parent company’s highest executive. Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer...

Compass Precision Adds Ninth Operating CompanyCHARLOTTE, NC – July 21, 2025 – The Kent Family has come full circle with their ownership of Pocasset Machine Corporation. Al Kent bought the company, which was a two-man tool & die shop in Waltham, Massachusetts at...

Compass Precision Shop Adds Nakamura Mill-TurnWINONA, MN – June 18, 2025 – Douglas Machining Services, a Compass Precision operating company specializing in mill-turn capabilities, announced Wednesday the purchase and install of a new Nakamura WT-150-II MMY (pictured...

Only the Best Machines to Make the Best PartsBADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, GERMANY – April 8, 2025 – Compass Precision, LLC has no limits to finding the best ways to satisfy a customer’s needs. Even if that means flying about halfway across the globe. Leaders of two Compass...

Keith Wenzel Takes the Reins at StromNORTH PLAINS, OR - March 18, 2025 - Compass Precision, LLC, a Charlotte-based manufacturer of customer, close-tolerance metal components for mission-critical applications, announced Tuesday that it has hired Keith Wenzel as its new...

Making Customers’ Lives EasyCompass Precision is a leading supplier in CNC machined and fabricated parts. Compass makes components with demanding geometries, tight tolerances and exacting surface finishes. Some of the materials it works with are difficult to machine,...

2022 Second Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision keeps a very high standard for all of its employees. Then, when an employee matches or exceeds that standard, they are rewarded. One of the most public ways Compass Precision rewards its employees is with its...

Advanced Machining Fulfilling Full-Range of Part Size CapabilitiesTo specialize in 5-axis CNC milling capabilities, a machine shop can’t have just one 5-axis machine. It also can’t have all 5-axis machines of a specific type. That’s why Advanced Machining &...

Making It Happen, Making His MarkBill Canning (shown at left in photo above taken at customer location) has not quite reached his 2-year anniversary as COO at Compass Precision. That milestone will come in March 2025. But Bill’s Compass tenure hasn’t been short on...

Compass Precision Reaches Company MilestoneCHARLOTTE, NC - October 16, 2024 – A global pandemic. An historic national US election. A disruption in the supply chain. And of course, Taylor Swift dating Travis Kelce. A lot has happened over the last five years.  The same...

Riding The WaveThere is never an easy time to run a machine shop. Customers either want it all now, or nothing until next year. Good employees are hard or impossible to find. And making that next big machine purchase? Future demand visibility has never been cloudier....

Gray Manufacturing CNC Machinist Receives High HonorMatt Searcy has spent his entire life living in North Carolina. For the last seven years, Matt has called Gray Manufacturing Technologies his work home. General manager Evan Grose and the management team of Gray’s...

Compass Precision Shop Keeping Up With Customer DemandsSALISBURY, NC – August 27, 2022 – Advanced Machining & Tooling, a Compass Precision operating company, has added equipment to its shop floor. Advanced Machining announced Tuesday the purchase of a Mikron HPM...

Compass Growing in Space, Many Other MarketsCompass Precision is expanding its business into new markets at all of its operating companies. In particular, Compass is growing in the space industry. With that growth, now is a perfect time to talk with Compass VP Sales...

2022 First Half EOM Honorees Then and NowCompass Precision has a high standard for its employees. When that high standard is met and even surpassed, Compass awards its people. One of the ways the company does that is with its Employee of the Month program. The honor...

Company Set to Meet Customer Demands With Additional CNC Turning CapacityThe eight operating companies at Compass Precision will do just about anything to satisfy a need from a customer. The latest example of that recently occurred at Tri-Tec Industries. In May,...

Creatively Using Fixturing and Programming To Beat The Competition To MarketGetting to market first with a great product is a winning strategy. But in Compass Precision’s world, doing this with geometrically complicated parts is tough. Having plenty of 5-axis mills,...

It’s Neither a Mill Nor A LatheKeith Felts, President of Advanced Machining (shown center above with Advanced CNC programmer/machinist Brandon Edds on left and R&D Machine VP & General Manager Justin Kovscek on right), started his company in 1985 after serving...

Doing Milling A Better WayCompass Precision focuses on doing tough projects. A few weeks ago, we talked to CEO Gary Holcomb (above, second from left) about the company’s manufacturing strategy. More so than most CNC shops, Compass depends on its 5-axis machines to...

Better and Faster With 5-Axis CNC MillingCompass Precision has dozens and dozens of advanced CNC machining centers. But perhaps the most impressive are its complement of twenty-one 5-axis milling machines located at Advanced Machining (Salisbury, NC), Gray...