Hardinge buys worldwide rights to Bridgeport.
Hardinge Hardinge may refer to: - Viscount Hardinge, UK peerage.
- Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, UK peerage.
- Frances Hardinge, author.
- Hardinge, Inc., machine tool manufacturer.
Inc. (Elmira Elmira (ĕlmī`rə), city (1990 pop. 33,724), seat of Chemung co., extreme S central N.Y., on the Chemung River; settled 1788, inc. 1864. , NY) has purchased the worldwide rights to
the Bridgeport Bridgeport, city (1990 pop. 141,686), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; inc. 1836. Long a chief industrial city in Connecticut, it makes electrical appliances, transportation equipment, clothing, ammunition, metal products, wiring devices, machinery, machinetool business.
Previously, Hardinge had purchased the rights to the Bridgeport
knee-mill business and built these machines in Elmira. Purchase price of
the worldwide rights was reported as $7.25 million.
The most recent purchase does not include the Bridgeport
manufacturing facilities in Leicester Leicester (lĕs`tər), city (1991 pop. 324,394) and district, Leicestershire, central England. The city is connected by canals with the Trent River and London, and it is also a railway center. , England. Hardinge will
manufacture the Bridgeport line in its existing Taiwan facility.
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