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Industry News
10 November 2013
Open house event of three
Graebener group companies
declared a success
AN Open House event at the Graebener
Group has been declared a resounding
success.
At the locations Quartier Landeskrone
and Quartier Elkersberg the companies
Graebener Maschinentechnik GmbH &
Co KG, Reika GmbH & Co KG and H
Kleinknecht GmbH & Co KG opened
their doors in order to present their
latest developments to the visitors.
In addition to this, Reika introduced
the new demonstration and processing
centre.
In this workshop, which is located
right next to the highway, the customers
were able to survey the quality of the
Reika machines during operation – an
operation that has become even more
important since Reika and its customer
conducted tool tests and further
improvements and developments
with the machines available at the
demonstration centre especially with the
machines of the RingSaw® series.
Managing director Hans-Jörg Braun
said: “I am certain that this is the best
way for Reika to learn and determine
which tool is most suitable for the
customer’s material, leading to optimum
results.”
The customer simply supplies the
material and does not need to assign
any of his own machines for the testing
process, which would impact their
production. “On the other hand, this
is also an ideal way to convince the
customer of the superior qualities of our
RingSaw® technology.”
This goal was met during the open
house event. Even though customers
already knew about the RingSaw®,
they were still amazed at the features
of the machine series for the cutting of
tubes, profiles and bars and for various
applications concerning the separation
of tubes and bars. The cut is almost
free of burrs and the tool costs are
significantly reduced in comparison to
conventional hard metal saws while
at the same time speeding up the
performance.
Mr Braun said: “That is the major
advantage of our demonstration centre.
Here, the customer can experience the
features of our machines directly –
under various conditions with different
materials.”
While Reika presented its vast
experience with the cutting and
processing of precision tubes,
Graebener showed its abilities at the
Quartier Landeskrone with machines
of completely different dimensions. The
two 4-roll bending machines currently
being assembled there are nearly ready
to be shipped to a manufacturer of
offshore monopiles.
They are used for bending plates
with a wall thickness of up to 150mm to
individual pipe sections with a diameter
of up to 10m. These two machines
with the fully adjustable plate handling
system represent the absolute state-of-
the-art currently available in the sector of
roll bending machines for the preferably
automated bending of cones as well as
cylindrical sections of any required plate
thickness.
The final participant of the Open
House event was the company
Kleinknecht, having pooled their
mechanical competences at the Quartier
Landeskrone. Here, Kleinknecht
manufactures test stands for (dual clutch)
gears, components, electronic as well
as hybrid motors and electric discharge
texturing (EDT) machines for renowned
customers worldwide.
Reika GmbH & Co KG – Germany
Website:
Graebener Maschinentechnik GmbH
& Co KG – Germany
Website: The open house day
was a great success