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Andreas Hellriegel, ARKU’ s sales director, outlines the company’ s strategic focus, latest investments and new machinery innovations to ISMR.
“ ARKU stormed into Blechexpo 2025 in Stuttgart with new deburring and edge-rounding machinery, upgraded machinetool functionality and AI-assisted control options.”
Left: Deburred and with rounded edges: ARKU’ s customers want their parts processed( bottom), not burr-covered and sharp-edged( top).
Andreas Hellriegel, Sales Director, ARKU.
ARKU, founded in 1928 as a familyowned company, is a global specialist in roller levellers, coil lines and deburring technology. It offers an extensive range of high-capacity and precision levellers, as well as deburring and edge-rounding machines. This extensive portfolio is completed with the addition of parts handling solutions for levelling and deburring machines.
With its headquarters in Baden-Baden, Germany, and ISO-certified facilities in Cincinnati( USA) and Kunshan( China), the company operates in over 30 countries. ARKU also offers toll processing services in three levelling and deburring centres in Baden-Baden( Germany), Cincinnati( USA) and, since January 2025, in Greenville( USA) with its latest machinery. It recently set up a 3000 sq. m. second production plant in Bühl, 15 kilometres from its main site in Haueneberstein.
ARKU machines are used wherever sheet metal is processed. It provides engineering expertise to various manufacturing industries including automotive; railway equipment; shipbuilding; construction and furniture, as well as laser job shops and others.
The company presented a range of innovative levelling and deburring technology at Blechexpo 2025 in Stuttgart, Germany, this October. ISMR caught up with Andreas Hellriegel, ARKU’ s sales director, on its stand at the trade show to find out more ……
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