TROUTMAN and MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- C.R. Onsrud and IMA Schelling America have announced that the companies have reached an agreement to form a strategic sales and engineering alliance to combine their expertise in supplying automated cut-to-size and handling systems to the North American panel processing industry as well as the plastics and non-ferrous metal markets.

Going forward the companies will give their customers the ability to “one stop shop” for automated storage retrieval systems with integrated nested routing and cut-to-size capabilities. The engineers as well as the sales and service teams of C.R. Onsrud and IMA Schelling will work together on future automated work cell projects to provide customers a single source project experience.

Both companies have a reputation providing their customers with tailored solutions as well as industry service. C.R. Onsrud manufactures CNC routers with an array of configurable machines for the wood, plastics, composite and non-ferrous machining industries. See http://www.cronsrud.com.

IMA America Corporation and Schelling America, Incorporated are fully owned subsidiaries of the IMA Schelling Group of Schwarzach, Austria. IMA and Schelling are manufacturers of automated equipment and solutions for the wood, plastics and nonferrous and ferrous metal industries. See  http://imaschelling.us.