Story update 11/23/2009: Information added on regions covered by this partnership.

(Hexagon Metrology: North Kingstown, RI) -- Hexagon Metrology Inc. of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, the world’s largest supplier of metrology equipment and software, and Morris Group Inc. of Windsor, Connecticut, one of the largest fully integrated suppliers of computer numeric control (CNC) machine tools and related engineering and support services in North America, have signed an agreement to form a strategic partnership. 

Under the terms of the agreement, six key distributor divisions of Morris Group encompassing 10 regional offices and covering 24 states will become authorized to sell Hexagon Metrology’s dimensional measurement products. Hexagon Metrology products are used in quality control applications for manufacturing, and include programmable coordinate measuring machines, portable articulated arms, and software under the Brown & Sharpe, Sheffield, ROMER and PC-DMIS brand names. 

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