TRUSTED PARTNER FOR MACHINE TOOLS
TOS VARNSDORF is a global producer of machine tools and a wide range of associated accessories. The company has its own design team to develop the machines and a strong manufacturing base to produce them. Romana Moares spoke to Jan Rýdl, the company’s managing director, about recent developments and its plans for the future.
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OS VARNSDORF offers horizontal milling and boring machines, floor type horizontal boring mills, machining centres, and special machines, as well as accessories, such as milling heads, milling attachment, facing heads, add-on tables, clamping equipment, cooling equipment and standard accessories. The company serves the power, transport, mining and machine construction sectors as well as general engineering industries. In addition to supplying the domestic market (Czech Republic), TOS Varnsdorf sells its products in Germany, Finland, Poland and the Russian Federation. The company was founded in 1903 and is based in Varnsdorf, Czech Republic with an international network of offices. Its tradition goes back over 100 years but its modern history began in 1995 when the former state owned enterprise was privatised by means of direct
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sale to a group of Czech investors, led by the current managing director’s father. The company was fully transformed into a modern business, which today ranks among the major producers of machine tools worldwide. In 2004, a joint venture was established in China – TOS Kunming Machine Tool Co. – significantly boosting the company’s activities on global markets. In 2012 another joint venture, GRS Ural, was formed in Russia. In 2015, TOS achieved a total unconsolidated turnover of CZK 1.7 billion (€64 million).
Comprehensive offering “Our company offers comprehensive technological solutions supplemented by auxiliary services for metal parts machining of over 1m3 dimensions requiring 0.01mm machining accuracy,” says the managing
