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Relocations and expansions across Europe
BHS-Sonthofen opens Renishaw invests in Mexico’s manufacturing future new, modern test center innovative products in metrology, healthcare
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HS-Sonthofen has unveiled a new state-ofthe-art test center in Sonthofen, Germany. The investment of €3.8 million underlines the group’s leading position as a process consultant and solution provider for mechanical process technology with a focus on mixing, crushing, recycling, and filtration technologies. BHS will perform production-scale tests at the center on all machines and processes offered by the company. “BHS-Sonthofen considers itself first and foremost a specialist that develops optimal process engineering solutions in collaboration with its customers,” notes Dennis Kemmann, Managing Director at BHS-Sonthofen. “This is where we set new industry standards with the test center. The center allows us to map various processes and chain individual machines into systems on a much larger scale than before, as well as enabling us to set up more units overall.” The test center is housed on an area of 1,720 square meters, and the entire lot – including the exterior – is over 3,000 square meters. In comparison, the old technical center was only 935 square meters. The new hall is also completely closed off on all sides, which means that tests can be carried out regardless of the prevalent weather conditions. The test center will be up and running at the end of September. Visit: www.bhs-sonthofen.com
AE Aerospace Opens New Factory
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anufacturer AE Aerospace has officially opened its new 16,500 sq ft factory at Network Park, Birmingham. UK. The state-of-the-art facility was opened by the Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street at an event to celebrate a major milestone in the company’s 23-year history. AE Aerospace supplies precision
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o support its rapidly growing customer base, global engineering technologies company, Renishaw, has opened a new facility in Nuevo León, Mexico. The building provides customers with technical support, demonstration and training facilities for the company’s
and additive manufacturing. Renishaw invested nearly 100 million pesos (5 million US Dollars) in the 3200 m² facility to help manufacturers in Mexico become more efficient and profitable. The new facility has a variety of conference rooms, training rooms, and development labs to allow companies to work with Renishaw engineers to improve efficiency in areas such as metrology, additive manufacturing and motion control. It also has demonstration areas to showcase the latest metrology equipment and process control applications, such as advanced scanning, calibration and gauging systems. “Renishaw has provided advanced manufacturing equipment to global partners in the automotive and aerospace industries for over 45 years. This facility in Mexico is one of many Renishaw subsidiaries that are located across 36 countries. Visit: www.renishaw.com
K+S commissions new facility W
ith the commissioning of a new facility at the Wintershall site of the Werra plant, K+S is now capable of producing significantly larger quantities of the magnesium sulphate anhydrous specialty product, which is in high demand. Over the past three years, K+S has invested about € 34 million in the new facility. Production capacity will therefore increase by considerably more than half which enables K+S to further expand its important market position for this product in Europe. Magnesium sulphate anhydrous is a product for numerous applications: In the Industry customer segment, for example, the pulp industry requires this product for stabilizing fibers and for bleaching. Customers in Agriculture use it in fertigation (= use of fertilizers in irrigation systems) and as a granulation aid for compound fertilizers amongst others. “With the significantly higher product availability, we will now be in a much better position to meet the customer needs in Industry and Agriculture and win new customers,” says Alexa Hergenröther, CEO of K+S’s Operating Unit Europe+. The new facility will not only produce magnesium sulfate anhydrous but also the animal feed product KaSa Mag 98. Visit: www.k-plus-s.com machined components to the aerospace, marine, defence and advanced engineering markets and has had to increase capacity to meet growing global demand. Over the last five years, the business has more than doubled productivity and seen a seven-fold increase in sales. The manufacturer had outgrown its original Dymoke Street premises and needed a facility four times the
size to fulfil its order book and meet its next goal of doubling turnover by the end of 2020. AE Aerospace Managing Director, Peter Bruch, says: “It has been a momentous year for AE Aerospace as we start another chapter of our growth journey. We will continue investing in business improvement to stay ahead of the game.” Viisit: www.aeaerospace.com
