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Johannes Remmel visited the Rothenpieler Group facility in Erndtebrück.

Erndtebrück September 8th, 2011. The NRW Environment Minister Johannes Remmel occupied himself today at noon in Erndtebrück-Schameder with an extremely complex issue: During his two-hour visit to the production facility of the Rothenpieler Company Group he governed some very heavy and advanced metal-cutting machine tool. “Here we can see a minister who really moves the masses” commented the two managing directors Christoph and Stefan Rothenpieler. There, in front of those big and massive steel parts, with weightswhich can reach up to 150 tons, Remmel could see practical examples of complex heavy metal cutting, performed with a watchmaker’s precision. The hosts also explained the environmental standards of the Rothenpieler Company Group. The modern high-tech solutions realized in the Erndtebrück facility do also in this respect contribute to great improvements. Christoph Rothenpieler: “The computer control systems and the high automation level of the machines guarantee enormous energy savings”.This is advantageous both from the ecological, as well as from the economical point of view.

At this, the youngest of their five production facilities, the Rothenpieler Company Group has so far invested more than 18 million Euros. With this the Managing Directors have prepared the company for the challenges of the future. While the large components continue to increase both to dimension and weight, they also require an ever increasing level of machining accuracy. The boring and milling machines and the vertical carousel lathes now installed in Erndtebrück, meet in all respects these requirements - and in addition the chosen location does also offer potential for further growth. “Already today we are here manufacturing components, which later will constitute parts of monstrously big machines on the most different points of the Globe”. And they are machined with an accuracy, which even will impress a watchmaker: Measurements inferior to the thickness of a human hair!