General

In order to develop Machine-Tools for the dental industry, Mr. BERTHOUD teamed up with Mr LAURENT (ex SESCOI specialised in CFAO systems) to found BERTHOUD CNC.

Puntotec is an Italian company that provides services for mechanical industry starting from staff training to “key-turn” part-program supply; in other words, its aim is to become a technical, highly specialized partner in the supply of technical services for CNC machine operators.

Dinatek (Fagor Automation’s exclusive Service Center for northern Mexico), with over 10 years of experience with Fagor Automation attended the EXPOMANUFACTURA exhibition from the 5th to the 8th of February in MONTERREY (MEXICO) exhibiting Fagor Automation products.

Once again, this year, Fagor Automation has attended the Imtex exhibition in Bangalore from January 24th to the 30th.

Diversified Machine Systems (DMS) visited the Fagor Automation plant in Mondragón, Spain on January 18^th. Mr. Patrick Bollar, CEO, and Mr. Ed Hilligrass, Vice President of Sales, were received by the heads of the commercial department of Fagor Automation, Mr. Rafa Aranzabal, Mr. Oscar Fernandez, and Mr. Pedro Ruiz de Aguirre.

Gurutzpe, a Spanish company with over 50 years experience in the Machine Tool sector, is today one of main manufacturers in heavy duty CNC lathes of large capacity. Their lathes are destined for the following sectors: shipbuilding, railway, aeronautics and energy generators, iron and steel, agriculture, oilfield, etc.

The 4th China Aerospace Manufacturing Summit took place in Harbin, Heilongjiang province on January 9th and 10th, 2013. This aerospace summit has been held in different locations in the last four years with the participation of 734 specialized companies of that sector, attending lectures, presentations, technology seminars, etc.

We have interviewed Mauro Carlini, the Sales Manager of CSF at BIMU exhibition.

Fagor Automation has presented CNC System and linear and angular encoders for the Machine Tool sector at the Machine Tool Indonesia- 2012 exhibition held in Jakarta from December 5th to 8th.

Yet again Fagor Automation has demonstrated it is the ideal supplier for CNC applications requiring high performance machining (milling machines and lathes), in addition to offering

On 28^th November, the Eskoriatza plant of Fagor Automation received a visit from Mrs. Ying Wang (Deputy Director) from the company Ningbo Haitian Precision Machinery Co. Ltd and from Mr. Huaisheng Jiang (Vice Director) from the company Dalian Machine Tool Group, together with Ma Qianli (General Manager) and Guo Grant (Business Manager Europe) from the same company.

GUIBE –with over 30 years’ experience in the industrial transmission field, has firmly decided to go for internationalization and innovation. The gear cutting division is responsible for the largest qualitative leap of the company in recent years: a three-way collaboration between GUIBE, Fagor Automation and