In the mid 1970s, Minister opened a 75,000 square foot facility, just north of Minster's main plant. Growth continued into the 1980s, and Minster opened a 40,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Beaufort, South Carolina for the production of material handling equipment. Minster also introduced its ultra high speed Pulsar press line in 1980, with speeds of up to 2,000 strokes per minute. In April 2012, The Minster Machine Company was purchased by the Nidec-Shimpo Corporation, which is part of the global network of the Nidec Corporation, headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. In April 2012, the company was sold to Nidec-Shimpo America Corporation, a subsidiary of Nidec Corporation of Kyoto, Japan, and changed its name to Nidec Minster. Midwest Manufacturing and Logistics is a division of Nidec Minster Corporation, that provides contract manufacturing services. They specialize in large precision component manufacturing. They serve customers in the machine tool, air compression, energy, HVAC, mining, diesel engine, material handling, and automotive industries in 82 countries around the world. Richard Lionel Spittel  Richard Lionel Spittel, (commonly known as "Dr. R. L. Spittel") (9 December 1881 – 3 September 1969) was a Ceylonese Burgher physician and author. He was one of the foremost experts on the Vedda community. Richard Lionel Spittel was born in Tangalle on 9 December 1881, the fourth child of Dr Frederick George Spittel (1853-1943) (who later became a District Medical Officer in Ceylon Health Service) and Zilia Eleanor Andree née Jansz (1855-?). Spittel received his education at Royal College, Colombo and the Ceylon Medical College, where he passed LMS in 1905. Thereafter he joined the government medical service and was sent to England in 1906 to complete his higher education. There he finished conjoint diploma in 1908 and took FRCS in 1909. Returning to Ceylon in 1910, he was appointed the Third Surgeon at the General Hospital Colombo. Going on to be a senior surgeon and a lecturer at the Ceylon Medical College, he retired in 1935, yet worked as a consultant surgeon and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1950 for his services towards medicine and surgery.