Cincinnati Inc.
Year founded: Late 1890s
Top executive: Ronald Brown, CEO
Website: e-ci.com
Describe your company and the product or service you offer. Cincinnati Inc. is a family-owned business and is one of a handful of U.S.-based build-to-order machine tool manufacturers. CI products are laser-cutting systems, factory automation, press brakes, shears, powder metal presses, software tools and additive manufacturing (3D printers).
What differentiates your offering from that of your competitors? From its inception, CI has been a custom machine tool builder with the ability to meet a broad
range of customer demands through innovation and agile design capabilities; product/application support; and sales and service support. CI has a long history of machines being passed down through generations of family businesses.
What’s the market impact for your product? The ability to design and build equipment with innovation that allows its customers to set themselves apart from their competitors with proven and long-lasting designs.
What has been CI’s biggest success to date? CI has survived as a U.S.-based manufacturer because it can design, build and service its ever-changing customer base. CI has many “firsts” in the market, but those firsts last for decades and serve as the stepping stone of the things to come.
