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Sendenhorst, 09. February 2024

Sendenhorst machine manufacturer builds the world's most powerful spinning machine

The Sendenhorst-based mechanical engineering company WF Maschinenbau and Blechformtechnik GmbH & Co. KG has developed and built a spinning machine that exceeds all previously realised forming forces of metal forming machines many times over.

Sendenhorst, October 2023

Faster, easier, more versatile: WF Maschinenbau presents details about new developments in spinning technology

Every two years, Blechexpo takes place in Stuttgart. From 7.11.23 to 10.11.23, WF Maschinenbau und Blechformtechnik GmbH und Co. KG will also be represented again at this trade fair, where interested parties and companies from the metal forming industry gather.

Sendenhorst, 30. August 2023

Managing director of many years leaves long-established mechanical engineering company

With effect from July 31, 2023, Dr. Bodo Fink, Managing Director and CEO, withdrew for private reasons from the management of WF Maschinenbau und Blechformtechnik GmbH & Co. KG. The previous Managing Director and CTO Christian Malkemper took over the sole management of the company as of 01.08.2023.

Sendenhorst, December 2022

Industry 4.0 in mechanical engineering: How digitalization can succeed in metal forming

The Sendenhorst-based mechanical engineering company WF Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG is celebrating the second birthday of its SMART FORMING tools and demonstrating how digitization can succeed in metal forming operations.

Sendenhorst, September 2022

WF INNOVATION AT EUROBLECH 2022

The latest development from WF Maschinenbau brings outstanding technical innovations with the aim of simplifying programming and minimizing set-up times. The machine scores with its extremely stable design and the tight workpiece tolerances that can be achieved with it.

Sendenhorst, September 2022

World novelty at WF

WF has built for a customer from the aerospace industry a worldwide unique flow-forming machine for the hot forming of special steels, such as Inconel 621, under inert gas atmosphere.

Sendenhorst, September 2022

WF develops resource-saving manufacturing processes for e-mobility

At WF, it was already recognized 10 years ago that e-drives would play a significant role in the future. Since then, the R&D Center of WF Maschinenbau has been developing various flow-forming processes for the production of components for e-drives on its test machines.

Sendenhorst, July 2021

Industry 4.0: WF Maschinenbau becomes SMART

The Sendenhorst-based specialist machine builder WF Maschinenbau und Blechformtechnik GmbH und Co. KG develops intelligent software for networking man and machine, process and product.

Sendenhorst, January 2021

Announcement by the Board of Management

Shareholder Heiko Ohlscher will leave the Board of Management and the operational activities of WF Maschinenbau for personal reasons with effect from 31 December 2020.

Sendenhorst - Germany, October 2020

WF expands Sales team!

Marco Drees has been appointed Area Sales Manager for Europe and Turkey. In this capacity, Drees now bears immediate responsibility for all Marketing and Sales activities for WF forming machines and services.

Sendenhorst, Juli 2020

WF celebrates its 45th birthday

In 2020 WF celebrates its 45th birthday and looks back on a successful company history.

Sendenhorst, January 2020

NASA counts on WF

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will be using a machine made by WF Maschinenbau und Blechformtechnik GmbH und Co. KG (mechanical engineering & machine construction company) to carry out various test series on the formability of various materials relevant to future space missions.

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