Community mourns machine tool industry veteran

On April 16, 2020, the machine tool community lost an irreplaceable member with the passing of Fritz Althoff at the age of 86.

Althoff was a toolmaker by trade and he parlayed this skill into a successful career in machine tool sales. He retired from Ferro Technique, Mississauga, Ont., in 2015 after a 35-year career.

Known as a consummate professional, he was respected by all the customers, suppliers, and competitors that he worked with throughout his career. To sum up how everyone felt about him, a former customer said, “Fritz was certainly the classiest of all machine tool salesmen I've come across.”