In 1979, Kent Industrial USA Inc started with a line of precision surface grinders focused on delivering quality, value, and service to the metal working industry from small job shops to large manufacturing enterprises. Today, the company offers conventional and CNC models of knee mills, bed mills, tool room lathes, oil country lathes, bandsaws, sinker and wire-cut EDM, in addition to surface grinders, cylindrical grinders, centerless grinders, and tool & cutter grinders – with more than 22,000 machines sold globally.

From the CEO

Company CEO, Bill Young, attributes their steady success to partnering with the best people and companies in the industry, and having a “We succeed when our customers succeed” mentality. The challenge in the future is global and technologically intensive. Applications and their solutions are more and more complex each day. KENT CNC, a division of KENT USA, focuses on the CNC market with products and solutions geared toward more complex machining works with 5-axis machining centers, large double column gantry machining centers, turning centers with mill-turn capabilities, dual spindles and dual turrets, CNC grinders, and industrial robot automations for machine tending applications. Located in Tustin, California, KENT USA has been steadily growing its roster of industry experienced and customer-centric sales and support engineers. On average, senior staffs have over 20 years of hands-on industry experience, to help customers achieve “effective – sustainable – growth” which is the company’s guiding purpose for its employee and customers.