A Pixbo every two minutes

Furniture at prices low enough to fit everyone's pocketbook - that's the Ikea success formula. This does not mean that the furniture has to come from low-wage countries. The foldaway mechanism on Ikea's Ektorp Pixbo convertible couch is manufactured by Sedac-Mecobel in Wevelgem, Belgium - a country with some of the highest wage levels in Europe. more...

Reliability at top speed

The 50-person family operation of Andreas Kempf processes a variety of sheet metals, with thicknesses of up to ten millimeters. So the five-kilowatt laser of the TruLaser 3030 NEW was just right. To cover the whole range of materials, Kempf needs all that laser power. more...

Complex parts as success factor

You could call his behavior "courage in crisis." Steffen Albrecht just calls his approach "anticyclical." In January 2009, the founder and CEO of Pretec invested in two new machines, a TruBend 5130 press brake and a TruLaser 5030 2-D laser cutting system. more...

New standard of quality

Elimination of scratches during punching and forming: That's the motto of the TruPunch 5000, which has an active die that works like a second punching head from beneath. more...

Flexibility thanks to bending robots

In FZL's sheet metal processing, seven of the company's eleven machines are fully automated. For those seven machines, only four operators are needed. The three BendMasters by TRUMPF are all run by a single person per shift. more...