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This year marks the 30th anniversary of AAG, a leading pioneer, developer and global supplier of technically advanced CNC routing, cutting and engraving solutions. Many of these have achieved benchmark status in the industries served, with the industrial woodworking, furniture production and joinery sectors representing a significant percentage of the 10,000+ machine installations that have taken place during this period.
AAG marks 30 years of growth, innovation and diversification Founded in Canada in 1991 as AXYZ Automation, the rebranded AAG (a more powerful and readily identifiable acronym for AXYZ Automation Group) now has 13 owned and operated companies throughout the world. All of these member companies are imbued with the same ethos, culture and best business practices established by the parent company. This recently led to AAG being designated ‘one of Canada’s best managed companies’, based on the group’s achievement in the primary areas of business management that included leadership,
innovation, commitment and financial acumen. The UK is home to AAG’s most successful company outside of Canada, with exponential growth and a new state-of-the-art machine assembly and supply facility set up in 2015 in Telford, Shropshire, to accommodate predicted future growth. This represented a +100% increase in the size of the original facility in Wolverhampton, thus underpinning AAG’s rapid expansion and success in the UK and Ireland and Continental Europe marketplace. This was further augmented by the acquisition by the parent company in 2019 of the North America-based
