CREDIT: GIE MEDIA
Get Your Questions Ready - Registration is open for our monthly Manufacturing Lunch + Learn, taking place Thursday, June 20 at noon ET.
Produced by GIE Media and sponsored by SMW Autoblok, this month’s event will feature Larry Robbins, president and CEO of SMW Autoblok USA, as he discusses automated workholding advancements and the next generation of workholding.
Meet your presenter
Larry Robbins
President and CEO·SMW Autoblok
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Larry Robbins joined SMW Autoblok in 2007 as National Sales Manager before being appointed president in 2019. As president for SMW Autoblok’s commercial division, Robbins is responsible for all strategic sales and marketing initiatives as well as overseeing SMW Autoblok’s North America sales team and customer base including machine tool dealers, OEM’s, and various projects internationally. Robbins has more than 35 years of machine tool manufacturing experience and prior to working for SMW Autoblok, he owned a successful manufacturers’ rep company for 13 years. Robbins’s expertise in the machining industry began early when he worked side-by-side his father who owned a prosperous distributorship in New York.