Dear reader,

Is it the same for you? At the moment, I am enjoying every journey, whether I’m travelling for work or pleasure, because no matter how perfect online events are, it cannot replace the in-person experience. Therefore, I am now inviting you on a tour of the Starrag world (the stops on our journey can be found in the current issue of our customer magazine, your personal tour guide).

We will begin at the site in Rorschacherberg, Switzerland, where you will find out about our most significant investment in the future: Marcel Capeder, Team Leader at the expanded Starrag Training Center, who explains how we are overcoming the shortage of skilled workers with a restructured and revised training programme. We see the centre as a school of life that enables its students to think and work in a solution-oriented, entrepreneurial and responsible manner as part of a team.

The aim is to help them develop into specialists that work holistically. We will encounter typical examples of this further south in Vuadens, where a solution-oriented team have developed the top-of-the-range Bumotec s191 model into the equally versatile Bumotec 191neo mill/turn centre, which is designed to surmount the challenges of digital transformation.

However, Starrag now has something particularly special to offer to our most talented students at our school of life: a workstation in the newly founded “Aerospace Competence Center”, which is located at the Rorschacherberg site and now incorporates the group’s expertise on producing the turbines and structural components of aircrafts.

At Starrag S.A.S. in Saint-Étienne, France, a completely different type of teamwork was required to assemble a disassembled Berthiez grinding machine in distant China and commission it by the deadline. Due to the COVID-19 travel ban, Starrag China took over the task – with special remote support from the French grinding experts.

Grinding quality is also a priority for Porsche Werkzeugbau in Germany’s Erzgebirge region: The Porsche subsidiary swears by its new Droop+Rein machine duo, which is used to manufacture pressing tools for moulding skin parts of vehicle bodies extremely quickly, reliably and with class-A surface quality.