Innovative products, Satisfied customers
König Metall in Gaggenau, Germany achieves
its business objectives at its Croatian site with
two 400-ton HPX presses from Schuler
the perfect solution for König Metall. Thanks to the
standardized machine concept, not only do they
offer an attractive price/performance ratio, they
can also be supplied in just seven to eight months
and installed and commissioned at the customer’s
site in just a few more weeks.
Highly satisfied customers, innovative products,
and optimal production processes: these are the
objectives set by Hans-Jörg Leuze, Managing
Director of König Metall in Gaggenau, Germany.
Help achieving these objectives came in the form
of two recently acquired hydraulic Schuler HPX
presses, each with a press force of 400 tons, at the
Croatian site of Pisarovina.
With further plants in Germany, Italy, Poland,
Canada and Russia, and 950 employees worldwide,
König Metall is a global company today which
specializes in sheet metal and pipe processing.
The company, which was founded in 1901, is
being run by the fourth generation. Until 2013, the
late Dr. Otmar Zwiebelhofer was the sole owner
and manager, former managing director of the
Employers’ Association Südwestmetall.
“For us, as an automobile supplier, Schuler Presses
delivers exactly what we need”, says Hans-Jörg
Leuze. “Our customers expect us to develop and
manufacture parts of the utmost quality, and to
do so, we need appropriate machines.” In 2014,
König Metall had founded the facility in Pisarovina,
located about 30 kilometers south of Zagreb. As of
today, 200 people work at the location which has
shown a rapid growth in the last two years; the first
production hall was followed by a second one very
quickly.
The machine park now includes a total of 22
presses, most of which have been delivered by the
Schuler Group. Among other things, the two latest
Schuler lines produce parts for trucks and exhaust
systems for various vehicles. HPX presses are ideal
for small and medium batches of components
with high forming paths, thereby making them
TN MAY 2016
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