Advanced technology machining company Metalex Manufacturing Inc. expands its Center for Advanced Large Manufacturing with Droop+Rein T portal-type machining centers from Starrag.

The long-term partnership between US manufacturer Metalex Manufacturing Inc. and the Starrag Group has revealed a lot in common: Both are specialists in extremely large components made from aluminum, stainless steel and titanium for very challenging applications. Now the Ohio-based job shop plans to grow even more, adding a fourth Starrag machine to the mix. So what are Metalex's plans for its new Droop+Rein T six-axis portal-type machining center?

“Good things achieved and excellent things cannot be acquired without great effort and work.” This advice from the poet Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen around 350 years ago couldn’t be a better fit for Metalex Manufacturing Inc. from Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Bielefeld plant of the Starrag Group. This phase of their partnership may have been put on pause for many reasons, the pandemic being one of them, but now the Droop+Rein T 60 80 DT TT60 HR100 C portal-type machining center is coming into operation at the Center for Advanced Large Manufacturing, a bespoke extension of their main plant in the form of an enormous building.