A tradition of innovation

We produce tools for the food, pharmaceutical and automotive industries as well as deep-drawing dies.

Our bread and butter is tools for the food industry. Deep drawing is still one of our specialities, because there are not many in Germany who do it. In this area we’ve got a strong position on the market. Another important line of business is the production of tools for cutting very thin plastic films.

We had a deep-drawing part that proved to be a real headache. But we managed it in the end – because we never give up. In fact we’ve never had a project that’s caused us to throw in the towel. But there have of course been projects where we’ve said “I’ve had enough of this!”, but we’ve always seen them through.

Our accuracy – that we produce precision results and deliver on time.

I like to put it this way: We work in an area where others spend their holidays. Our father set up his own business here in 1975, and that’s how we came to be working in such a tiny place like Wiblingwerde.

The machines have become more and more accurate and reliable, and speed is constantly increasing. There’s a lot going on in this area.

The machines have become so much faster and their precision has increased. Like on the MV4800. It’s really good now thanks to its tubular drive.

We needed traverses on the X and Y axes – Z wasn’t so ­important for us. It then turned out that we had a good use for it after all and now want to offer the whole lot as a subcontractor in the marketplace.

All skills and machines that we have here at the company are available to outside customers. The wire-cutting machines from Mitsubishi Electric in particular are available on principle for subcontracted jobs. We’ve got four of them – the FX30-K, FA20S, FA20S Advance and the new MV4800.

Since I was 19 – that’s 33 years ago.

This is the fourth machine type from Mitsubishi ­Electric that I’ve so far worked on.

Operation is very intuitive. In the past we’ve had to change from one machine generation to the next. It only took me a few hours to acclimatise.

Yes, we see to it that the machines run overnight. It depends of course on the work that you’re asked to do. Basically, we prefer to use the Mitsubishi Electric machines unmanned.

Usually perfectly. If you stick to the machines’ maintenance intervals, there are never any problems.

There’s steady progress in terms of speed and surface finish. I don’t know if there’s ever going to be a limit.

The biggest workpiece measured 1200 x 800 mm and was 110 mm thick. It went pretty well.

For a multi-punch, for example, we had to cut 120 star stamps, with each one taking five to six hours – and that went perfectly.

For the most part we cut tools for the packaging industry. The procedures here are always very similar. These include die plates with a tiny kerf of 3 to 4 µm – we manage that very well.

We achieve narrow tolerances – in some cases 2 to 3 μm. And when I work with a technology, I manage that in 5 to 6 cycles.

We machine cemented carbides, cold- and hot-work steels, powder steels and stainless steels on all machines.

You can cope with a lot of machines if you know how to organise your work. We’ve got a lot of long-running jobs for which a machine operates continuously for 2 to 3 days. So it’s not a major problem.

At the moment I am. I’ve got a holiday stand-in who also comes in when things get tight.