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Fast, flexible and efficient - DESMA Slovakia expands.
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It has already been the third CNC machining center that DESMA Slovakia s.r.o. commissioned at the Považská Bystrica location in the northwest of Slovakia. DESMA invested around one million euro in this HEC 1600 Athletic plant delivered by the German company StarragHeckert AG in Chemnitz. Thus, the subsidiary of Kloeckner DESMA Elastomertechnik GmbH, Fridingen, is now also well-equipped for major tasks, because the new machining center can accommodate workpieces with unit weights of up to 13 tons and maximum edge lengths of 2,100 x 1,800.
DESMA Slovakia is specialized in the production of individual components for DESMA injection moulding machines. "We produce e. g. the mould mounting platens for the clamping units, the framing for the vertical and the horizontal machines, but also hydraulic tanks and welded constructions", explains the Managing Director, Olaf Steinwede. "One of our specialties is the manufacture of completely mounted heating platens ready to be installed ", emphasizes Steinwede. At this time the factory employs a staff of around 40.
Besides, the facility founded in 2003 does not exclusively work for the Fridingen headquarters. "Our customers come out of the Kloeckner group and from the outside", says Steinwede. The efficient machining of especially large and heavy workpieces has proved to be an asset, such as the torch-cutting which DESMA Slovakia masters for material thicknesses up to 150 mm with maximum platen sizes of 3,000 x 2,000. Several various flat-bed milling machines are available to machine ledges with lengths of up to 2,600 mm.
The production in the DESMA Slovakia facility is split up into three halls. Procedures generating emissions such as welding, torch-cutting and the blank are separately located from the CNC machining centers and the assembly department. The Slovakia factory is networked with the headquarters in several respects - both through the common operational data processing systems and personnel-wise. And so Olaf Steinwede particularly underlines the close cooperation which on the one hand promotes the exchange of information but equally contributes to qualification, because in Slovakia it is also hard to find qualified employees.
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