TUBE NEWS TN February 2018 | Page 4

New Building Makes Space for Further Progress transfluid drives prototyping and the manufacture of automation systems further forward The production surface area was extended by 1000 square metres. Advanced ideas require development space in order to optimise tube machining processes through the introduction of perfectly suited solutions. This already applies to prototyping, and of course to fully automated complex production systems. This is why the solution finders from transfluid have now further extended their production area by an additional 1000 square metres, to a new total floor area of 7000 square metres. Prototyping from cutting and bending through to end forming “This investment was an obvious one to make, since it enables us to improve further our customer-facing development and high-tech production facilities”, explains Stefanie Flaeper, the transfluid CEO. “In particular for our t motion automation systems The additional space and latitude afforded by this new-build also stands to benefit the in-hour Prototyping department at transfluid. “To protect changed processes, we have been offering our customers intensive prototyping for many years. 4 TUBE NEWS February 2018 product sector, we now have much more resource available in terms of physical space, not just in relation to assembly work but also for test runs and commissioning runs. There is now also scope for implementing pre-series for our customers to further guarantee and evaluate our production process before the plant is shipped.