The clamping and gripping technology specialist RÖHM can draw a positive balance from its appearance at the EMO this year. At the leading world trade fair for metal processing in Hanover, the company showed recent innovations and further refinements of its extensive product portfolio. The RÖHM staff at the stand were well satisfied with the large numbers of trade visitors and the great interest shown in the exhibits. The trade fair was attended by more than 2100 exhibitors from 43 different countries, all eager to demonstrate their most recent solutions for industrial production.
In the vice product range the company exhibited two further innovations - the tried and tested RKE compact NC vice in an optimised design, and the RZM centric vice, which meets the requirements of 5-axis processing in the best possible way. Likewise in the growth sectors of micromechanics, medical technology, automotive, energy and raw materials production, RÖHM had suitable clamping solutions to offer. The dimensions of the company's clamping and gripping technology extend from just a few centimetres in the micromechanics field, to diameters of several metres in the chucks used for mineral oil and gas production.
The trade fair's motto this year - 'Intelligence in Production' - applies perfectly to the RÖHM products on view. The eQuipment range, for instance, offers everything necessary for operating turning and milling machines electrically, dispensing completely with hydraulics. These clamping tools also offer other advantages, in the form of ease of regulation, improved flexibility and greater productivity based on reduced cycle times. As a new member of the product family RÖHM presented the EVS 50 electrically powered clamping cylinder, adding yet another star to the firmament.
Another highlight at the 200 square metre stand was the new Orange Line. This product line offers standardised products for machining applications, at an attractive price and with proven quality. The Orange Line portfolio ranges from drill chucks and live centres to lathe chucks and machine vices, and continues to be strategically extended as new products are added. The company expects the new range to appeal to a broad clientele both within Germany and abroad.
For the first time, RÖHM's online jaw finder could be experienced live at the stand. Customers can now easily find suitable jaws for manual chucks, power chucks and face plates by means of an online search. The information supplied is entirely drawn from the new jaws catalogue, which features the entire RÖHM range over 140 pages, as well as offering the possibility of finding the most suitable jaw for competing products.
'We are very well satisfied with the way the event has gone - we have had many successful discussions with customers,' said CEO Dr. Michael Fried, speaking at the trade fair press conference. 'The interest shown in our new Orange Line demonstrates that customers have just been waiting for RÖHM's clamping technology in the medium price bracket. We have been wholly successful in our aim - of offering products at an attractive price without any diminution of quality.'