Todd Hughes is now the Regional Sales Manager for Nidec Machine Tool America (NMTA). He is responsible for gear machine tool sales in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Arizona, and British Columbia. In a first for NMTA, Mr. Hughes will also promote and help customers with the full complement of gear-cutting tools, such as hobs, shaper cutters, skiving tools, shave tools, and tool services such as sharpening and coating.  

According to Scott Knoy, VP Sales for NMTA, “Nidec is excited to bring Todd into our organization. Todd’s background and leadership skills make him the right person to take over this role.” With nearly 30 years of military experience in a wide variety of logistics and combat arms positions, Hughes brings with him a “can do” approach to sales. “I’m looking forward to meeting the challenges of both machine tool and cutting tool sales,” said Hughes. He further commented that his background in manufacturing operations gives him insights into the needs of gear manufacturers. 

Nidec Machine Tool America offers a wide-ranging lineup of gear manufacturing machines: gear hobbers, gear shapers, gear grinders, gear shaving machines, gear skiving machines, and gear chamfering systems. A Nidec group company, Federal Broach & Machine of Harrison, MI, is the distribution and service company for Nidec gear-cutting tools.

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