Under a sole agency agreement, Corsham-based
Gewefa UK has been appointed to sell and service in Britain and Ireland the driven and static tool holders, both standard and special, manufactured by Wendel Tools in Horb am Neckar, southern Germany.
It means that the UK subsidiary of Gewefa, a German manufacturer of tool-holding and allied products, now offers to the markets it serves probably the most comprehensive range of such equipment — the company also sells the products of six other partner firms — EWS (driven and static turning tool holders), Fahrion (chucks and collets), Nann (standard and special collets), Ott-Jakob (tool clamping systems), Pibomulti (a Swiss manufacturer of angle heads, speeders and multi-spindle heads), and Rineck (heat shrink tool holders and machines).
Nicole Lloyd-Foxe, managing director of Gewefa UK, said: “We regularly receive enquiries from manufacturers asking for bespoke driven and static tooling for very specific production applications on turning centres. However, our parent company and other principals either do not include them in their portfolios, or are unable to supply them quickly enough and at reasonable cost.
“This is exactly where Wendel scores highly. Following my visit to their stand at the
AMB machine tool show in Stuttgart last September, where we discussed adding their products to our portfolio, we have now been appointed to represent them exclusively in the UK and Irish markets.”
She added that the manufacturer’s products are known to be of high quality and robust, while the specials in particular benefit from an extremely knowledgeable and experienced design team in Horb. There exists a synergy between Gewefa and Wendel in that both companies have a shared philosophy of maintaining high levels of quality and operational efficiency and of striving for constant improvement across all products and services.