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Starrag Aerospace Manufacturing
Expertise — All In One Place
The Starrag site in Rorschacherberg in Switzerland has long been synonymous with highly productive, long-lasting machining solutions in the aircraft industry. This is what made this site the perfect choice for the Starrag Compe- tence Center Aerospace — an initiative to combine the ex- pertise already available within the group in terms of manu- facturing turbines and structural components.
The aerospace industry has been one of Starrag’s core
markets ever since the company began to build machine tools in the early 20th century — and this is still the case today. Dr Bernhard Bringmann, managing director at the Rorsch- acherberg site and head of the High-Perfor- mance Systems business unit, explains: “Over the years, we have built up a vast and diverse knowl- edge — not just of our own machines, but of the entire manufacturing process for components that are often used in the aerospace industry”.
The best way to ex- perience this expertise first-hand is at the Cen- ter of Production Excel-
lence (CPE) at the application center in Rorschacherberg. This approx. 21,528 sq. ft hall is equipped with state-of-the- art NB, LX and STC five-axis machining centers, which can be used to create a broad variety of flow surfaces and com- plex structural components. Starrag technologists test and optimize new, sophisticated machine processes at the site, usually in response to customer orders and under production conditions — and all while continuing to gather valuable ex- perience.
“Just as the ‘Aerospace Competence Center’ was given its official name, in CPE we were commissioning an Eco- speed machine featuring a pallet 157” in length to allow us to reproduce our expertise in structural components on this scale”, says Dr Bringmann enthusiastically. The plans go even further: To achieve the best possible synergy effect, fu- ture development and production of the Ecospeed series will be relocated from Mönchengladbach to Rorschacherberg. Dr Bringmann provided the following explanation for this deci- sion: “By moving our Ecospeed facilities, we can offer the aerospace industry a huge range of applications from a single source.” This includes manufacturing solutions for blades, vanes, blisks, impellers, casings, gearboxes and housings for turbines.
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