Günther Wirth (GW) is a manufacturer of PCD, solid carbide cutting tools and special tools for international manufacturing industry with its fleet of over 100 machine tools. For machining its ultra-precise special tools, the company depends upon sharpening specialist Vollmer and its QWD wire erosion machines and Vgrind 160 grinding machine for solid carbide tools.
Founded in 1981, GW has a factory in Balzheim, Germany, a production site in France and a branch in India, producing cutting tools around the clock with Vollmer technology.
Each day, 12,000 tools leave the production site to service international customers in the aerospace, medical technology and turbine/mechanical engineering industries. “For over 35 years, we have been developing cutting tools from solid carbide and PCD. Our product range currently comprises around 20,000 different standard tools. We are able to achieve this thanks to our state-of-the-art machine fleet, which we intend to expand further still,” says Gerhard Bailom, CEO of Günther Wirth Betriebs-GmbH.
Since 1999, Günther Wirth has been using Vollmer’s QWD eroding machines to manufacture PCD tools. Thanks to the contactless eroding process, the PCD can be removed precisely and the tool geometries can be individually adapted to customer requirements. The eroding wire also enables GW to achieve precise sharpening of complex tool geometries with minimal inside radii, such as that seen in multi-stage tools.
The tool manufacturer has recently added the new Vollmer Vgrind 160 to its grinding machine fleet. The Vgrind is used for the development and production of solid carbide special tools. Equipped with an automated solution, the machine allows round the clock production.
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