TPT November 2013

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Open house event of three Graebener group companies declared a success

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

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

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: www.reika.de Graebener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co KG – Germany Website: www.graebener-maschinentechnik.de

The open house day was a great success

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