Investment in mechanical production

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Investment in mechanical production

The Starrag plant in Chemnitz is not just a development and production site for Heckert compact and large machines. The Starrag Group’s center of excellence for mechanical production is also anchored at the location.

Components that predominantly require the highest precision or are particularly large and valuable are manufactured there for Heckert and other product areas. These include certain machine beds, columns, tables and Z-slides, but also smaller parts such as bearing blocks for ball screws, gearbox housings and guide parts for the main spindles.

The basis for the demanding tasks is the high level of manufacturing expertise in the workforce and the corresponding equipment. The Starrag managers recognized potential for optimization of the equipment. To bring this important department up to the state of the art so it can operate even more efficiently, flexibly and diversely, they approved investments in the double- digit millions.

A significant portion of this sum is going into a flexible production system with a length of over 98 feet (30 meters), which consists of two Heckert HEC 800 X5 MT machining centers with room for a third. The machines are interlinked via a Fastems linear storage system with 64 pallet storage locations. The second important part of the investment is a Droop+Rein FOGS HD large machining center with a footprint of 72 × 46 feet (22 × 14 meters). This enables all machine beds and other large parts to be machined with the utmost precision.

The investment is accompanied by the bundling of all mechanical production activities in a completely modernized hall. In addition to the new acquisitions, the large Heckert HEC 1800, 1250 and 1600 machines are already in use and a SIP 5000 jig boring machine is also located here.

Sabine Kerstan

Starrag Content Manager

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