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VWH GmbH expands technology center

The Westerwald-based company combines classic, sophisticated toolmaking, highly complex automation technology and innovative engineering under one roof. With its future-oriented product portfolio, VWH GmbH positions itself as a global player. The company is planning to build a technology center to ensure that this remains the case in the future.

The technology centre will complete the plastics technology division and deal with the topics of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and additive manufacturing. "With the planned centre, we will advance our technologies and increase the pace for future developments and innovations," explains Thomas Sturm, Managing Partner of VWH GmbH. "In line with our high quality standards, we ensure that our solutions always represent absolute added value for our customers and that they meet their expectations 100 percent.

Rapid prototyping makes it possible to produce prototypes quickly and easily right from the planning phase. Errors and weaknesses are thus easier to recognize and eliminate. The prototype can be improved to the optimum - before high costs arise within the production process due to undiscovered errors. Rapid Tooling is an extension of this area. This involves the production of mould cores using 3D printing. Thus, prototypes can be produced fast and economically, with the real material characteristics, in the injection moulding procedure. The production of prototypes in hybrid construction is also possible in this way.

Additive manufacturing, on the other hand, is a professional production process that differs from conventional manufacturing methods. In this process, the components are built up layer by layer, rather than being ablated. Different materials such as various plastics, metals and composites are used. This industrial 3D printing process is characterized in particular by the production of complex geometries.

"Our growth and the construction of the Technology Center demonstrate our ambitious investments in this significant part of our business and our commitment to innovative and cost-effective solutions in automation, molding and engineering," concludes Sturm.