Tucson-based Caid Industries has long been a major maker of custom metal equipment and structures for markets ranging from manufacturing to mining to public art.
On Tuesday, the 66-year-old company unveiled its push into industrial automation with an open house at its new facility at 2705 E. Medina Road, Suite 161.
The 13,000-square-foot facility is home to Caid's automation division, which was launched about a year ago and employs 14 people, said Juan Cardenas, Caid vice president of sales.
The automation work is supported by Caid's main fabrication plant, about a block away at 2275 E. Ganley Road. Caid employs about 210 workers overall.
At the open house, Caid showed off projects including assembly-line equipment to make and package medical catheters for locally based Vante, auto-parts assembly units for a Mexican maquiladora and a device to semiautomate the process of peeling copper from cathode plates used in an electrical extraction process.
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"It's really broadening our base of customer contacts, so it's been pretty exciting this first year, Caid President Bill Assenmacher said.