Suc­cess­ful pre­sen­ta­tion of the TAURUS Universe at EMO 2023

This year’s EMO in Hanover has been a suc­cess­ful exhi­bi­tion for WALDRICH COBURG. The good response is a solid basis for con­tin­u­ing the upswing and the good order sit­u­a­tion from the year to date. “Despite declin­ing visitor numbers among our com­peti­tors, this devel­op­ment was not notice­able at our booth. For us, the EMO is an impor­tant step for further good economic devel­op­ment,” says Managing Director Uwe Herold, summing up pos­i­tive­ly.

The EMO was held under the guiding themes of net­work­ing and sus­tain­abil­i­ty. For one week, WALDRICH COBURG pre­sent­ed the almost unlim­it­ed variety of its medium-sized port­fo­lio of portal milling machines with the TAURUS Uni­ver­sum in Hall 13 at Stand B29 in Hanover. In doing so, WALDRICH COBURG set itself apart from the com­pe­ti­tion: “No one has the topic of large machines so promi­nent­ly as a leading theme,” Uwe Herold points out the focus.

More speed, more power, more indi­vid­u­al­i­ty

For the Coburg-based company, the TAURUS family is a mainstay in the company’s more than 100-year history. With speeds up to 30,000 rpm, power up to 70 kW and torque up to max. 1,500 Nm, the WALDRICH COBURG machines offer an increased per­for­mance spectrum and thus even more pos­si­bil­i­ties for the cus­tomers’ pro­duc­tion process­es.

With a variety of gantry and table sizes, as well as the ability to con­fig­ure dif­fer­ent milling units, the company offers cus­tomers a tailored and unique com­bi­na­tion of flex­i­bil­i­ty, mod­u­lar­i­ty and maximum pre­ci­sion. An exten­sive spindle selec­tion also covers a wide range of machin­ing options for both steel and cast iron cutting as well as high speed cutting.

Thorsten Steinle, CCO sees this as an impor­tant step forward: “A new scalable machine system enables expanded per­for­mance and thus increas­ing customer benefits. The increased per­for­mance para­me­ters guar­an­tee cus­tomers greater flex­i­bil­i­ty as far as work­piece machin­ing is con­cerned.”

The 2 series TAURUS and TAURUS Gemini are thus used to create indi­vid­ual machine concepts that are pre­cise­ly adapted to the needs of the customer. The new concept that WALDRICH COBURG suc­cess­ful­ly pre­sent­ed at EMO is as indi­vid­ual as the machines them­selves.

More customer benefits through net­work­ing

New net­work­ing options open up new areas of business. The latest tech­nol­o­gy is used to provide cus­tomers with a modern, effec­tive and option­al­ly dig­i­tal­ly con­trolled man­u­fac­tur­ing process. Thus, the machines are equipped with the latest controls, more pre­cise­ly the TNC 7 from Hei­den­hain and the SINU­MERIK ONE from Siemens. They also have UPC/UA and Umati inter­faces.

Stan­dard­ized inter­faces make it possible to inte­grate WALDRICH COBURG machines into existing pro­duc­tion lines and to inter­link several machines from dif­fer­ent man­u­fac­tur­ers. “This gives cus­tomers the option of inte­grat­ing a high-per­for­mance machine tool from our company into an existing pro­duc­tion line at any time in order to improve their own pro­duc­tion process,” says Thorsten Steinle, pleased with the growing approach­es to coop­er­a­tion with cus­tomers.

A high priority is given to service. The further devel­op­ment of digital services, together with machine inno­va­tions, will bring sig­nif­i­cant added value in the future.

More sus­tain­abil­i­ty

Respon­si­bil­i­ty towards the envi­ron­ment and the topic of sus­tain­abil­i­ty have a high priority. That is why the company has firmly anchored this issue in its cor­po­rate values.

The products reflect this with their long service life, through sus­tain­able service and energy effi­cien­cy. The company pays atten­tion to the use of recy­clable mate­ri­als such as cast iron and steel in man­u­fac­tur­ing. In addition, plastic parts are largely dis­pensed with. The aux­il­iary units used to operate the machines have a shutdown mode and only run at the required power when needed. Cus­tomers are thus offered high-quality and sus­tain­able products. A retrofit creates the pos­si­bil­i­ty for a 2nd machine life. To conserve resources, it is impor­tant to further improve the recy­cling of mate­ri­als.

For Managing Director Uwe Herold, sus­tain­abil­i­ty is a core issue: “We have invested a lot in the devel­op­ment of our products and the site for this purpose. The next step is to focus on the recy­cla­bil­i­ty of our product and the mate­ri­als used in the machin­ing process.”

“Despite fewer visitors overall and the reduc­tion in exhibitor space in the halls, WALDRICH COBURG was able to score points with many domestic and international guests,” says a sat­is­fied Thorsten Steinle.

It will be impor­tant to take up the new leading themes of the machine tool industry more strongly and to make them visible through appro­pri­ate inno­va­tion.