GF AgieCharmilles

Megatrends offer clues into what cars will look like — and feel like — three to five years down the road, says Han Hendriks, Vice President of Product Development, Product Group Interiors, with Johnson Controls Automotive Experience, the leading design and development partner to automakers worldwide.

GF AgieCharmilles’ success is best illustrated by its customers’ success and in booming Asia — the world’s largest land mass and host to 60 percent of the earth’s population — some of the continent’s most successful customers have flourished over the past three decades thanks to the Group’s local presence, EDM and Milling products and application expertise.

With about 25 mold and die manufacturers concentrated in a 20.5-square-kilometer area, competition in Lanškroun, Czech Republic, can be fierce. That’s one of the reasons there is at least one GF AgieCharmilles machine in almost every mold and die shop in Lanškroun.

After more than 32 years as a respected manufacturer of hydraulic equipment, Belgium’s Hydrobel s.a. is venturing, with the creation of a new CNC machining and reverse engineering department, into new, high-tech markets in Belgium, France and Germany. GF AgieCharmilles is Hydrobel’s partner of choice as it stakes its claim in new application areas.

Bennett Internacional S.L. has come a long way since its founding 57 years ago in Barcelona. In theearly days, the company made molds for plastic and aluminum injection and, in 1972, began laying thefoundation to become a leading tool producer for manufacturing electric stators for domestic and industrial applications.

Brazil’s Usinagem Ferramentaria Tonini Ltda. (UFT) has come a long way since its humble beginnings in its founder’s garage. UFT today is Brazil’s leading designer and builder of devices and tools for aerospace machining — and GF AgieCharmilles is UFT’s exclusive supplier of five-axis Milling machines.

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