TURNING NEWS IN THE ROUND
The new factory at Kalmar, soon to
be joined by another, is a modern
facility catering to both machine
tool building and its employees’
needs in 21st century style
Game-changing record
Andrew Allcock explains how Swedish machine tool builder Modig Machine Tools has become a global
leader in high speed machining of aerospace parts, revealing the company’s latest world-beating efforts
and developments in that area
Swedish machine tool builder Modig
Machine Tools (https://modig.se) was
established in 1947 by four Modig
brothers. Set up as a mechanical workshop
on marshland in Virserum, Smaland, one of
Sweden’s forest-rich inland areas, it was a 5
by 10 m concern. This year, the
100-employee company opened a new
5,000 m2 factory in the expanding coastal
city of Kalmar, on Sweden’s Baltic east
coast. The new facility is required to support
demand for Modig’s RigiMill and HHV
machines (see later).
Located some 50 miles south-east of
Virserum, the Kalmar operation assembles
machines and also supports customer test
runs. The home town of Virserum houses
the company’s warehouse and is the
location for the production of modules
assembled at Kalmar.
The purchase of 10 apartments has
smoothed the transfer of some staff from
Virserum, as well as providing visitor
accommodation, while close-by Kalmar
University will soon have 6,000 students,
establishing a pipeline of future talent on
which the company can draw. A further
positive for Kalmar is its location close to a
major airport. With the increasing number of
world-wide customers who visit Modig on a
regular basis, Kalmar Airport’s proximity was
another in uence for the siting the new
factory. A further 5,000 m2 unit is under
construction, in fact, with this required for
the assembly of the company’s very latest
creation (see later).
A global expert in the manufacture of high
speed machines for aerospace parts’
production, but not solely that, Modig’s
latest machines continue to push
metalcutting boundaries, just as they have
for some many years to date. In arriving at
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