Ceratizit has supplied a tooling package to special-purpose machine builder Weingärtner for a roll
machining solution that will be delivered to an unnamed company in Asia. Machinery reports
Kircham, Austria-based Weingärtner
Maschinenbau provides customised
complete machining solutions for the
oil, gas and aerospace industries, the
pump, plastics and recycling sectors, as
well as the elds of energy and heavy duty
machining. In addition, the Weingärtner
Group boasts a wealth of experience in the
machining of large parts, carrying out high
precision manufacture on its specialpurpose
machines in Kirchham, delivering
crankshafts for diesel engines, rolls for the
steel and paper industry, extruder screws
for plastics production and the shafts used
in turbines and stationary generating units
to destinations worldwide.
“With its vario, pick-up, mpmc (multiproduct
machining centre) and nish
machine programmes, Weingärtner offers
sector-speci c technologies that can be
tailored to the requirements of the job in
hand,” points out Weingärtner group
marketing director Thomas Exenberger.
“At the same time, we support users with
weinCAD, an extremely powerful CADCAM
system that makes the programming of
injection moulding screws through to stator
cores for extruder screw pumps very
straightforward.”
As a complete solution provider for heavy
duty machining, the Weingärtner portfolio
TOOLING CUSTOMISED CUTTING FOR HEAVY DUTY MACHINES
includes customised machines and
software, application-speci c technology,
consultancy and training, together with
global support. Ceratizit (https://is.gd/zedile)
too has been specialising in heavy duty
machining for decades, with this particularly
true for its Industry Solutions division based
in Reutte, Austria. “The expertise of Ceratizit
is expressed not just in the complete tooling
programme for the machining of large parts,
we also see it in our OEM services, where
we provide the structures and skills for the
creation of complete machining solutions,”
observes Alfred Hofegger, team leader for
OEM Services at Ceratizit Austria. “If
required, we also de ne the machining
operations, including the associated tooling,
specify the cutting data and calculate
The two CNC loading
aids are designed
for the loading and
unloading of the rolls
machining times, make forecasts of unit
costs, carry out test machining in the
Ceratizit Innovation Centre and support
machine acceptance and commissioning
activities.”
HI-TECH MACHINE REPLACEMENT
The recent collaboration between the two
heavy duty machining experts involved a
customer wanting to replace up to four
conventional machines for roll production.
“For this application, which involves the
machining of eight types of roll, Weingärtner
was contracted to deliver two mpmc
machines, together with all the necessary
tooling,” says Exenberger. One of the
challenges is the material to be cut, which is
produced using the centrifugal casting
Heavy cuts
A full toolkit for the complete machining of rolls was supplied by Ceratizit’s Team Heavy-
Duty, responsible for roll machining at the company
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