Early in April 2018, Mr. Jan Kropacek, sales manager at FERMAT, visited Tovarna kovinske opreme d.o.o. (TKO), which manufactures components for heavy equipment in the Slovenian town of Murska Sobota. On top of being the capital of the short-lived Republic of Prekmurje in 1919, the municipality boasts an elegant regional museum… Read more »
Last week, members of FERMAT’s video production team called on an important customer in the Central Bohemian town of Dobris, located about 40 km south of Prague. The customer, Bobcat Doosan, recently purchased a shiny, new FERMAT WFT 13 CNC for its innovation and development center, built alongside Bobcat’s extensive manufacturing… Read more »
Here at FERMAT, we’ll let bygones be bygones. Especially when it comes to Medieval intrigue and warfare. However, our bookworm historians on the factory floor might raise an eyebrow that we’re shipping our machines to the fair lands south of the Alps, the wealthy industrial, commercial, and cultural lands young… Read more »
This fancy, handsome and well-built WFT 11, a smaller version of FERMAT’s WFT 13, sports a spindle diameter of 110 mm and a spindle travel of 730 mm, has an X axis of 2 meters, Y axis of 2 meters, and Z axis of 1.25 meters. For quick and smooth… Read more »
Last week, FERMAT’s rough-n-ready film crew descended upon the quaint, picturesque town of Lipnik nad Becvou, a beautiful abode of metalwork and manufacturing, nestled below Helfstyn castle and straddling the main rail line from Prague to Ostrava. This Central Moravian municipality blends centuries of culture and commerce in a friendly,… Read more »
FERMAT recently installed two of its most popular table-type horizontal boring mills, WFT 13 CNC, in Doha, Qatar. FERMAT’s customer, ITAG International Qatar, is part-and-parcel of The Arabian International Petroleum Corporation (AIPC) which bought ITAG Celle in 2001. ITAG Celle was founded in 1912 by Hermann von Rautenkranz, and it… Read more »
Ever-ready to tackle problems head on, FERMAT has built a special table-type horizontal boring mill with an X axis 7.7 meters long for a customer in Slovenia. It’s FERMAT’s hard-hitting table-type horizontal boring mill WFT 15 R CNC, which boasts a spindle diameter of 150 mm, spindle extension of 730… Read more »
Known as one of the most powerful and precise table-type horizontal boring mills on the market and loved by manufacturers across the world for its outstanding performance and reliability, FERMAT’s WFT 13 R CNC guarantees excellent machining of large or heavy workpieces weighing up to 20 metric tons. With its… Read more »
EMO is one of the premier European metalworking trade shows. It’s held on every odd-numbered year (e.g., 2017) with an interesting tripart cycle: 2 shows back-to-back at the Hannover Fairground in Hannover, Germany, and 1 show at the Fiera Milano exhibition center in Milan, Italy. The acronym comes from Exposition… Read more »
We like to keep our facilities spic-and-span. And, nothing irritates our fastidious, meticulously clean crew of FERMAT workers more than a grimy or cluttered factory floor. With production humming right along at a fast clip in 2017, there are two new machines ripe for the picking, taking up precious space… Read more »
