How to resolve AdBlock issue? Machining sector mourns passing of Fritz Althoff
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- May 13, 2020
Click image to enlargeOn April 16, 2020, the machine tool community and manufacturing sector as a whole lost an highly respected member with the passing of Fritz Althoff at the age of 86.
Althoff was a toolmaker by trade, but he parlayed this skill into an extremely successful sales career in the machine tools industry.
He retired from Ferro Technique in 2015 after a 35-year career, throughout which Althoff was a consummate professional, well respected by all his customers, suppliers and competitors that he worked with throughout his career.
To sum up how everyone felt about Fritz is this statement from a customer: "Fritz was certainly the most classy of all machine tool salesmen I've ever come across.”
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