At Giesserei Heunisch honours took place for deserving jubilarians. A number of employees were honoured for 40 years or 25 years of employment in the company.

In her laudatory speech, Managing Director Dr. Christiane Heunisch - Grotz pointed out that "we have never had so many jubilarians with 40 years of employment in the company." "For a company, it is a fact that the employees, who approach their work with fun and creativity, are the most important capital of a company." more...

With the motto "Efficiency you can touch - a new era of cooperation", AGCO awarded the best providers and suppliers for the regions of Europe, Asia and the Middle East with the "EAME Supplier Award 2012" for the first time. First place for quality went to Gießerei Heunisch GmbH from Bad Windsheim, which has also been performing the best for 4 years at the supplier "quality assurance" panel. more...

After just 10 months, the mould making department of Slévárna Heunisch is once again getting another CNC machine. Hereby, the management of the aluminium foundry are reacting to the uninterrupted high demand from customers for new casting tools. With a MCV 1016 QUICK from KOVOSVIT MAS, the expansion of the in-house mould making at HEUNISCH is consistently being continued.

The vertical processing centre is controlled by a Heidenhain iTNC 530. The machine operator has traverse paths of 1016 mm in the x-axis, 610 mm in the y-axis and 710 mm in the z-axis available. In the individual axes, processing tolerances of ±0.01 mm and a repetition precision of ±0.003 mm are achieved.

"With the new processing machine for the mould making, we are meeting the uninterrupted pressure from numerous existing customers and also new customers for new cast moulds for their aluminium cast parts, which has been present for months." says Josef Varga, technical manager of the Heunisch foundry in Krásná. Jaromír Hais, head of construction and the mould making department, is also proud of the development of his department, and adds: "With every new CNC machine, we increase our flexibility and efficiency in our tool manufacturing."

Krásná in October 2012

A new processing centre has been installed in the CNC processing plant of Slévárna Heunisch a.s., which is based in Krásná. The Chiron FZ15KW not only replaces the inoperative Hedelius processing machine, but is also available as an alternative production option for further vertical processing. The new machine is used for chipping items made from both grey cast iron and spheroidal graphite iron, as well as cast aluminium from the gravity die foundry.

The spindle speed, with up to 20,000 revolutions per minute, and the considerably greater feed speeds, as well as the short tool change time lasting 0.9s, have resulted in much higher productivity. Discussing the new machinery, Erwin Schmidt, Head of the CNC Processing Competence Centre, said: "This technological jump was so successful, that we are able counter the steeply rising production costs."

Slévárna Heunisch a.s. in Krásná, Czech Republic, is subsequently expanding its own capacity in gravity die construction. Now the new CNC horizontal processing centre was able to be put into operation. more...