this latest point, though, Modig has
journeyed through both boom and bust.
Concentrated within the hands of a
single Modig brother, Harry, in 1957,
lathes were then the company’s focus.
With Harry’s passing in 1965, wife Ulla
continued running Modig with family
support, and a universal milling machine
was added to the range in 1967. That
same year, Ulla and Harry’s son Percy
joined the company, upon his sixteenth
birthday. Percy took on running the
company in 1971 and it would be him
that would start the company’s
computerised machinery journey and
then steer Modig towards today’s high
speed, aerospace parts’ machining
destination. He took ownership in 1978,
upon the death of his mother – at the
time the company employed 32 and
turned over SEK4m (£322k).
Percy oversaw the development of
the company’s rst computerised
machine, in 1982. Based on the rm’s
universal drilling machine, it was not
SUPPLY SIDE HIGH SPEED PIONEER KEEPS PIONEERING
David Modig, right, heads up
today’s fi rm, representing the third
generation of what can rightly be
described as a pioneering family
wholly successful, due to its partial
computerised nature. But, building on
this, the company’s rst fully automatic
multi-function machine with, innovative
at the time, a toolchanger, MD 5000,
was developed in 1984. Comparatively
inexpensive, it found a niche, selling
well at home and even to Switzerland
and Germany.
A more powerful MD 6000 followed,
but it was the development of the MD
7000 series vertical machining centre in
the late 1980s that saw the company
rise to become a world leader in high
speed aluminium machining. Working
with bearing expert and fellow Swedish
rm SKF, technology was developed to
support spindle speeds of, rst, 15,000
rpm and then up to 20,000 for the
MD 7200.
The processing capability of the MD
7200 was such that it could get through
ve to 10 times as much work as other
similar machines of the time. Sweden’s
Saab Military Aircraft, located some 100
“WE GUARANTEE 40%
CYCLE TIME REDUCTION
WITH THE HHV.”
- David Modig, President Modig Machine Tool
HHV2 / HHV3
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