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Aber­le Kunst­stoff­ver­ar­bei­tung GmbH, based in the Black Forest, Ger­ma­ny, spe­cia­li­zes in pro­to­ty­pes, one-offs and small series made from a varie­ty of pla­s­tics. For the past two years, they have been using the high-pre­cis­i­on, fle­xi­ble VISION-I‑H 5‑axis CNC machi­ning cen­ter from Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamuel.

Making sophisti­ca­ted con­cre­te form­work from wood is often an art. What was once con­side­red impos­si­ble or dif­fi­cult, such as crea­ting futu­ristic cur­ves on lar­ge bal­co­nies, has beco­me rou­ti­ne for experts thanks to modern CNC tech­no­lo­gy. Some­ti­mes it only takes a few days from con­cept to rea­li­sa­ti­on, and a cus­to­mi­sed con­cre­te stair­ca­se, for exam­p­le, is rea­dy for delivery.

In the idyl­lic Swe­dish coun­try­si­de, Setra has estab­lished its­elf as one of the country’s lar­gest tim­ber indus­try com­pa­nies. With a clear focus on sus­taina­bi­li­ty, only wood from respon­si­bly mana­ged forests in Swe­den, some of the best soft­wood are­as in the world, is used. Seven saw­mills and a modern pro­ces­sing unit trans­form the­se raw mate­ri­als into cli­ma­te-fri­end­ly pro­ducts such as glu­lam, pla­ned t

The 5‑axis VISION-III-TT machi­ning cent­re from Ger­man spe­cial machi­ne manu­fac­tu­rer Rei­chen­ba­cher has been in ope­ra­ti­on at the Setra Group’s wood indus­try cent­re in Långshyt­ta in cen­tral Swe­den sin­ce the end of last year, and this series desi­gna­ti­on pro­mi­ses some­thing extra­or­di­na­ry. Equip­ped with a steel gir­der table with tim­ber sup­ports and con­vey­or sys­tem, the 20,000 mm x 3,100 mm working area of

Hob­by-Wohn­wa­gen­werk from Fock­bek in the Rends­burg-Eckern­för­de dis­trict has been buil­ding cara­vans and motor­ho­mes for almost six deca­des. Some time ago, the com­pa­ny was loo­king for a repla­ce­ment for the 30-year-old machi­nes used to finish the outer bodies. The com­pa­ny found what it was loo­king for in the spe­cial sys­tems manu­fac­tu­rer Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamu­el, which sup­pli­ed sta­te-of-the-art CNC technolo

The metal­wor­king indus­try is expe­ri­en­cing a revo­lu­ti­on thanks to addi­ti­ve manu­fac­tu­ring methods that enable more effi­ci­ent pro­ces­ses and inno­va­ti­ve designs. Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamu­el GmbH has reco­gni­zed this trend and deve­lo­ped indus­tri­al addi­ti­ve manu­fac­tu­ring sys­tems in a very short time. With the Ophir Beam­Peek sys­tem for beam ana­ly­sis and power mea­su­re­ment from MKS Instru­ments, Rei­chen­ba­cher uses a

Demo­gra­phics in Ger­ma­ny have an immense influence on the con­s­truc­tion mar­ket. Over the last 30 years, the pro­por­ti­on of 25 to 44-year-olds has decreased, while the pro­por­ti­on of older peo­p­le aged 65 and over has increased. This has con­se­quen­ces for housing con­cepts, as the group of peo­p­le wan­ting to build sin­gle-fami­ly homes is shrin­king; the demand for mul­ti-fami­ly homes and com­mer­cial constructi

For the third time, num­e­rous repre­sen­ta­ti­ves from the tim­ber con­s­truc­tion indus­try met at Rei­chen­ba­cher Hamu­el at the end of Octo­ber for an expert mee­ting. The topic was indus­tri­al pro­duc­tion in tim­ber con­s­truc­tion, and around 30 guests atten­ded the event at the company’s head­quar­ters. A fur­ther 90 fol­lo­wed the pre­sen­ta­ti­ons online, which focus­sed on thin­king and manu­fac­tu­ring in modu­lar construct

Com­pa­nies in indus­try and trade face a major chall­enge when it comes to auto­ma­ti­on. Becau­se machi­nes alo­ne are not enough — in order to gua­ran­tee con­sis­t­ent­ly high pro­duct qua­li­ty, intel­li­gent soft­ware must be used so that employees can con­trol pro­ces­ses, ope­ra­te machi­nes and car­ry out pro­gramming wit­hout errors, even after only a short trai­ning period.

The small Nos joi­n­ery from the Wet­ter­au dis­trict of Hes­se has arri­ved in the modern CNC world: Foun­ded in 1949, the com­pa­ny said good­bye to tedious, old-fashio­ned manu­fac­tu­ring a year ago. The ide­al ent­ry into CNC tech­no­lo­gy was pro­vi­ded by the Opus machi­ning cen­ter from Reichenbacher.