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Visionary decisions level new grounds

Industrialised production for clever lightweight constructions

Increas­ing urban­i­sa­tion every­where around the globe asks for ever more effi­cient and low-emis­sion sys­tems in pub­lic trans­port and sta­tion­ary indus­tri­al plants. Airex Com­pos­ite Struc­tures knew at an ear­ly stage that clever light­weight con­struc­tion is a pre­con­di­tion for the effi­cient move­ment of weight, for effort­less accel­er­a­tion and for excel­lent mechan­i­cal performance.

Bottles under control

The plastics professionals

Iku­form GmbH offers cus­tomised solu­tions for almost any field of mod­ern plas­tics engi­neer­ing. At first sight, they sup­plie unspec­tac­u­lar parts, but with­out these parts an effi­cient pro­duc­tion flow would often be impos­si­ble. For those in charge, tech­nol­o­gy is a key com­po­nent of success.

Lightweight construction – also for the racetrack

Core competence in lightweight and sandwich constructions

Its out­stand­ing degree of spe­cial­i­sa­tion when deal­ing with dif­fer­ent tech­nolo­gies for the pro­cess­ing of organ­ic mate­ri­als makes Gau­gler & Lutz unique in the mar­ket. The busi­ness sec­tor, where they have achieved an excel­lent rep­u­ta­tion as a man­u­fac­tur­er of semi-fin­ished prod­ucts over more than three decades, is the pre­dom­i­nant one at a share in the sales vol­ume of up to 80 percent.

Distortion-free vision when flying

The focus is on plastics technology

The name Mecaplex comes up when­ev­er it is about trans­paren­cies. Almost all glid­ers man­u­fac­tured in Europe, but also busi­ness and mil­i­tary jets, are pro­vid­ed with their panes. The Swiss com­pa­ny is spe­cialised in the three-dimen­sion­al form­ing of acrylic glass with­out opti­cal dis­tor­tion and their knowhow is met with world-wide appreciation.

Visions take shape

Settings for museums, themed attractions, science centres and much more

If it comes to being whisked off into a live­ly world full of fas­ci­nat­ing dis­cov­er­ies, most prob­a­bly Hüt­tinger will have been involved. In keep­ing with the mot­to: the vis­i­tors should enjoy the set­tings and have the pos­si­bil­i­ty of mak­ing full use of the lat­est didac­tic devel­op­ments to absorb the tech­ni­cal and sci­en­tif­ic facts pre­sent­ed at var­i­ous inter­ac­tive stations. 

The measure of all things

Smallest details defined and determined

In gen­er­al, in the air­craft indus­try even the small­est devi­a­tion in the pre­ci­sion of com­po­nent machin­ing is unwant­ed. This demand is made on numer­ous com­po­nents of mil­i­tary and civ­il air­craft and machin­ing accu­ra­cy is the most impor­tant cri­te­ri­on for machine manufacturers.

Research in keeping with the times

Development service provider for industry and trade

In Coburg the name says it all: ‘Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences’. Those respon­si­ble at the Insti­tute for Pro­to­types and Mod­el Tech­nol­o­gy (IPM) have inter­nalised this phi­los­o­phy. They com­bine the­o­ry and prac­tice and see them­selves as devel­op­ment ser­vice providers for indus­try and craft sectors.

Smooth running for high quality

Machining centre for acrylic glass and polycarbonate

y. If enter­tain­ment elec­tron­ics com­pa­nies are to be sup­plied with glossy acrylic pan­els for high-end appli­ca­tions, the sur­faces won’t tol­er­ate even the slight­est flaw. In order to remain com­pet­i­tive, the two direc­tors had to ensure plan­ning reli­a­bil­i­ty for the entire work process. This absolute­ly neces­si­tat­ed the expan­sion of their machin­ery by an effi­cient 5‑axes CNC-milling machine.

Your customer is what matters

Meeting the requirements

And when, as is the case here, a pre­mi­um man­u­fac­tur­er from the Ger­man auto­mo­tive sec­tor prefers his com­po­nents to be machined in a par­tic­u­lar way, Fau­re­cia will make an invest­ment in a spe­cial-pur­pose machine to ensure the man­u­fac­ture of superb inte­ri­or parts. The Reichen­bach­er line at Fau­re­cia has been in oper­a­tion since the end of 2017 and has exclu­sive­ly been pro­duc­ing high-gloss dec­o­ra­tive parts for the dash­boards at the dri­ver and pas­sen­ger side, as well as for the cen­tre con­sole, of the Audi Q8.

Feel-good factor on wheels

Lightweight construction is essential for caravan building

The major clients of Sten­gele Holz- und Kun­st­stofftech­nik GmbH, such as Hymer, Cartha­go, Deth­leffs, Fendt and oth­ers, install its com­po­nents in all vehi­cles. Their pro­duc­tion sec­tor uses most advanced tech­nolo­gies, such as the 5‑axes CNC-machin­ing cen­tres from Reichen­bach­er, to ensure con­tin­u­ous top machin­ing quality.

Highest demands on technology

Resilience versus aerodynamics

In an era dom­i­nat­ed by jet planes, pro­peller air­craft seem some­what nos­tal­gic. Aer­o­bat­ics, such as Mar­tin Albrecht, mem­ber of the nation­al aer­o­bat­ics team, how­ev­er, give impres­sive proof with their flights that there is cer­tain­ly noth­ing nos­tal­gic to their activ­i­ties. The blades are milled from wood­en blocks on our high-qual­i­ty CNC-machines accord­ing to CAD/CAM specifications.

Flying climate-neutral

Digitised product development

Many impuls­es for new meth­ods of appli­ca­tion or mate­ri­als have their ori­gins in research lab­o­ra­to­ries. This also applies to the Lab­o­ra­to­ry for Dig­i­tal Prod­uct Devel­op­ment and Man­u­fac­tur­ing (LDPF) at Tri­er Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences, which is intense­ly con­cerned with ques­tions of sus­tain­abil­i­ty and mobil­i­ty of the future. A CNC machin­ing cen­tre from our com­pa­ny is the core of the actu­al imple­men­ta­tion in pro­to­type and mould construction

Mobility needs to change

TUfast e.V. — The Eco Team

They had the the­o­ret­i­cal knowl­edge and a bril­liant idea to boot: Five stu­dents from the School of Engi­neer­ing and Design at the Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty of Munich found­ed the TUfast e.V. asso­ci­a­tion in 2002 to devel­op rac­ing cars for For­mu­la Stu­dent in prac­tice. Reichen­bach­er sup­ports this project with know-how and human capital.