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Company profile	WF Maschinenbau is a leading German machine builder and technology partner for chipless metal forming. For more than 50 years WF Maschinenbau has developed and built precision CNC machines for metal spinning, flow forming, shear forming, necking-in. WF Maschinenbau is a proven partner to the aerospace and defense industries. Its machines form safety-critical, high-strength rotationally symmetric metal components like rocket cases, tank domes, nozzles, pressure vessels and high precision tubes from titanium, nickel-based alloys, stainless steel to aluminum. As a system partner rather than a machine supplier, WF Maschinenbau accompanies customers from feasibility study and process development to fully automated series production. From tool design and application engineering to automation and digital process monitoring, WF Maschinenbau delivers reliable, economical solutions for demanding forming tasks trusted by leading aerospace and defense manufacturers worldwide.
Products & Services	WF Maschinenbau develops and manufactures machines and production systems for chipless metal forming of rotationally symmetric parts: · Metal spinning machines · Flow forming machines · Necking-in and closing machines · Automated cells and complete production lines Components produced on these machines include drive components, turbine parts, precision tubes, pressure vessels and tanks, nose cones and propeller noses, landing-gear parts, motor cases, auxiliary fuel tanks, warhead and projectile bodies. Services: · Process development · Feasibility studies and component development · Application and process engineering · Digital process monitoring and production optimisation · Commissioning, training and after-sales service What sets WF Maschinenbau apart: · Only machine builder offering a trial machine that unites all chipless metal-forming processes in one · Builder of the world’s most powerful spinning machine · In-house R&D Center with numerous patents
References and export activities	Selected references in space and defence manufacturing: NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Hanwha Aerospace, World wide Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, India Winkelmann MRS Technology GmbH, Germany MT Aerospace AG, Germany WF Maschinenbau supplies customers worldwide, with its own subsidiaries in the USA, Europe, India, Japan and Korea.
Target group	· Aerospace and space system integrators and their suppliers (launch-vehicle and aircraft manufacturers) · Aeroengine and propulsion component manufacturers · Tier 1 and 2 suppliers of aerostructure and rotationally symmetric parts · Manufacturers of pressure vessels, gas cylinders and (high) precision tubes · Defense and security manufacturers
Competitive advantages	· Expertise in high-strength, hard-to-form materials (titanium, inconel,nickel alloys,) · Precision and process reliability for safety-critical aerospace and defense parts · Complete solutions from process development to automated series production · In-house R&D with numerous patents · More than 50 years of experience in chipless metal forming · All chipless forming processes from a single source
Ideal Business Partners	· Local representatives and distribution partners · Technology and process cooperation partners · R&D institutes, universities and aerospace/defense cluster organizations · Maintenance and after-sales service partners