PRODUCTION TIMES CUT 50 % WITH HECKERT 5-AXIS
“ Only the best is good enough for our customers,” says Karl Kordik, responsible for contract manufacturing at Neuson Hydrotec GmbH in Linz. With the new Starrag HEC 800 X5 MT machining centre, his machining team can even machine complex housing with numerous holes at different angles with maximum precision – in a single clamping position and in half the time.
Neuson Hydrotec GmbH in Linz, Austria, is a company where mechanical engineering, mechatronics and hydraulics are intertwined in many ways. With around 50 employees, contract manufacturing is the largest business unit. Walter Füreder, one of the two Managing Directors responsible for this division, describes it as essential for the company:“ We generate around half of our turnover with our contract work. Twenty percent of this involves doing the groundwork for other business units, while we achieve the rest with leading companies in the plastics recycling, railway and mechanical engineering sectors.”
Karl Kordik, Sales Manager for Contract Manufacturing, has known his customers and their needs for many years. Components for injection moulding machines are also part of the recurring contract work, such as shredder shafts, and bearing blocks, all supplied to machine tool manufacturers.“ We supply the largest proportion of our work, around 40 %, to the plastics recycling sector,” says Kordik.
The services range from procuring raw material to CNC milling, grinding, lapping, honing, welding and superfinishing to pre-assembly. Karl Kordik knows that“ our customers appreciate that we supply them with a complete component, including a 3D measurement report.”
Sophisticated components, powerful machines
The central topic in contract manufacturing is machining and various CNC turning and grinding machines and several machining centres with pallet pools are available for this. The highlight is the HEC 800 5X MT 5-axis machining centre purchased
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