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ITAtube Journal No2/September 2013
Companies
The Open House event of the Grae-
bener Group was a resounding
success. At the locations Quartier
Landeskrone and Quartier Elkers-
berg the companies Gräbener
Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.
KG, Reika GmbH & Co. KG and H.
Kleinknecht GmbH & Co. KG opened
their doors in order to present their
latest developments to the visitors.
In addition to this, Reika intro-
duced the new demonstration and
processing center.
In this workshop, which is locat-
ed right next to the highway, the
customers were able to survey
the quality of the Reika machines
during operation. An operation
that has become even more im-
portant since Reika, together with
the customer, conducts tool tests
and further developments with the
machines available at the demon-
stration center, especially with
the machines of the RingSaw® se-
ries. Managing Director, Hans-Jörg
Braun, is certain “that this is the
best way for Reika to learn and de-
termine which tool is most suitable
for the customer’s material thus
leading to optimum results”. The
customer simply supplies the ma-
terial and does not need to assign
any of his own machines for the
testing process which would im-
pact his production. “On the other
hand, this is also an ideal way to
convince the customer of the su-
perior qualities of our RingSaw®
technology.”
This goal was already met during
the open house event. Even though
customers already knew the Ring-
Saw®, they were still amazed at the
features of the machine series for
the cutting of tubes, profiles and
bars and for various applications
concerning the separation of tubes
and bars. The cut is almost free of
burrs and the tool costs are sig-
nificantly reduced in comparison
to conventional hard metal saws
while at the same time speeding up
the performance. Hans-Jörg Braun:
“That is the major advantage of
our demonstration center. Here,
the customer can experience the
features of our machines directly –
under most various conditions with
different materials.”
While Reika presented their vast
experience with the cutting and
processing of precision tubes,
Gräbener showed their abilities at
the Quartier Landeskrone with ma-
chines of completely different di-
mensions. The two 4-roll bending
machines currently being assem-
bled there are nearly ready to the
shipped to a manufacturer of off-
shore monopiles. They are used for
bending plates with a wall thick-
ness of up to 150 mm to individual
pipe sections with a diameter of up
to 10 m. These two machines with
the fully adjustable plate handling
system represent the absolute
state-of-the-art currently avail-
able in the sector of roll bending
machines for the preferably auto-
mated bending of cones as well as
cylindrical sections of any required
plate thickness.
The final participant of the Open
House event was the company
Kleinknecht having pooled their
mechanical competences at the
Quartier Landeskrone. Here, Klein-
knecht manufactures test stands for
(dual clutch) gears, components,
electronic as well as hybrid motors
and electric discharge texturing
(EDT) machines for renowned cus-
tomers worldwide.
Reika: Customers fascinated by the Open House
event of three Graebener Group companies
Reika GmbH&Co. KG
Tiegelstrasse 3
D-58093 Hagen, Germany
Tel.: +49 2331 9690 0
Fax: +49 2331 969036
info@reika.de
www.reika.de
Amazing and superior technological solutions
Big success: An open house event
that satisfied both – customers and
companies