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MISUMI Group Appoints Dave Evans as President of MISUMI Americas to Lead Next Phase of Manufacturing Growth and Innovation

On Jan. 22, 2026, MISUMI Group announced Dave Evans as President of MISUMI Americas in Schaumburg, Illinois, leading integration with Fictiv while continuing to oversee the platform.
By expanding its digital model business, MISUMI is investing heavily in AI and uniting MISUMI Group's digital model business with AI-enabled quoting and design-for-manufacturability tools using large design datasets.
On the scale side, MISUMI Americas' network serves over 323,000 companies and processes over 200,000 shipments daily, while roughly 10,000 CAD files fuel AI quoting and Fictiv produced more than 40 million components.
Customers can expect faster innovation cycles and broader access to parts, employees will share a mission to build an advanced platform, and investors see alignment with MISUMI Group's Americas growth, while Nobuyuki Ashida said, `It has been an honor to lead MISUMI USA.`
MISUMI Americas will support East–West growth with hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago/Schaumburg, combining Japanese precision with American digital innovation, as Evans said, `We are entering a new era of manufacturing strength in the Americas.

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