22 January 2020
HEDELIUS Maschinenfabrik GmbH and its local sales partner Promas BV organised a customer day for interested parties and customers from the Netherlands and Belgium on 16 January. 80 guests accepted the invitation to Meppen in northern Germany, not far from the Dutch border. "We are delighted about the great interest shown by our neighbours. The Netherlands has always been a special market for us," says HEDELIUS Managing Director Dennis Hempelmann with satisfaction. Visitors to the Customer Day were able to gain an impression of the high quality standards in the family-run company's production during the company tour. In the demonstration centre, ten machining centres were then ready to demonstrate the quality of machining live.
These included the 3-axis milling machines FORTE 65 Single 1320 and FORTE 85 Single 1620 as well as the 5-axis machines TILTENTA 6-2300, TILTENTA 7-2600 and TILTENTA 9-2600 from the swivelling head family. The ACURA 65 rotating/swivelling table machining centre was also closed for a live demonstration. The connected automation was of particular interest to many guests. On the one hand the robot automation Platinum 50 from BMO-Automation, on the other hand the newly developed pallet automation MARATHON P422 from HEDELIUS.
Visitors to the Customer Day were among the first to experience this system live in a demonstration, as the MARATHON will be the first to be launched on the market in the coming weeks. The system comprises 22 pallets with dimensions of 400 x 400 mm, a clamping weight of up to 150 kg, a collision area diameter of 500 mm and a clamping height of 400 mm. Another special feature is the interaction of the MARATHON P422 with the ACURA 65 and a standby magazine. HEDELIUS thus offers a complete turnkey solution.
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What do the Olympic Games have to do with metalworking? At first glance, not much. Some might immediately think of the customary bite that winning athletes take out of their medals. But it’s worth taking a closer look – because the right equipment can make all the difference when it comes to those crucial hundredths of a second. When German athletes compete for medals at the Olympics, in many cases there is a great amount of development and manufacturing work behind the scenes. At the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment (FES) in Berlin, this also includes CNC technology from HEDELIUS Maschinenfabrik in Meppen.
(PDF | DE) Machining large workpieces flexibly whilst reducing unproductive downtime: The TILTENTA 9-2600 with MARATHON LR810 combines the advantages of a universal travelling-column machine with high-performance heavy-duty automation. During the day, the machine remains freely accessible for the manual machining of large and complex single parts, whilst the automation system enables additional productive spindle hours outside regular shifts. Up to ten pallet locations and a transfer weight of 2,000 kg provide the ideal conditions for this.
Steingross Feinmechanik GmbH & Co. KG specialises in the manufacture of sophisticated CNC-turned and CNC-milled components – from prototypes through to series production. Founded in Berlin in 1990 by Uwe Steingross, the company sees itself as a comprehensive system supplier of CNC machining technology and combines modern milling and turning processes with surface treatment, precision finishing, final assembly and design consultancy. Since 2019, Steingross has been relying heavily on HEDELIUS as a technology partner – including for the automation of its manufacturing processes.
