Weiler Corporation Holds Oktoberfest Open House

The Weiler North American Corporation (Mount Pleasant, SC), a German machine tool builder of cycle type lathes, held an Oktoberfest Open House on October 20-21 to showcase their most recent enhancements to their Flagship E-series cycle-controlled lathes. The event was held at Koch Machine Tools in Houston, TX. Koch Machine Tool is the Weiler distributor for Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana.

The Weiler Corporation is a subsidiary of Weiler Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH, a family-owned business headquartered in Emskirchen, Germany. Friedrich Eisler is the CEO and chairman of the company. His two sons, Michael and Alexander Eisler, are both members of the management team. All of these gentlemen were in attendance at the Oktoberfest Open House, along with Walter Nirschl, the head of international sales; Andreas Schulz, general manager of Weiler NA, and Michael Koch, president of Koch Machine Tool. Following a true Oktoberfest, a German lunch and refreshments were served.

Weiler used this opportunity to formally introduce to the U.S. market an E-50 with the Big Bore option, an E-90 with a Cogsdill ZX bottle boring unit installed directly on the lathe, and various enhanced safety features. An E-70 unit was also on-site demonstrating various tooling systems. "We see the value of expanding function and capabilities to our already existing E-series lathes to better support this market in a time when saving money is paramount. With these additions, companies are able to increase their capabilities on a smaller E-series platform, thus saving money white still maintaining the high-quality of German standards,? said Schulz.

The E-50 Big Bore option nearly doubles the spindle bore size to 6½ in, with a shorter headstock than is available on the larger E-series lathes, making the E-50 more economical for industries to utilize a smaller, more cost-efficient machine. The E-90 Cogsdill ZX boring unit, which had not been shown in the U.S. until this event, is a feed-out style boring bar that enables certain tubular parts, such as carrier bodies used in the oil field, to be machined on a lathe. Until now, manufacturing these parts required an additional machining operation to be done on a horizontal boring mill or machining center.

Also featured were Weiler machines showing a Sauter turret option, a Sandvik quick change tooling system, optional live tooling for simple secondary milling/drilling operations, machines with 4 in and 6 in diameter boring capacities, and new guarding systems which are now being offered as options on E-Series lathes. "The timing could not be better,? noted Koch. ?In these slow economic times, the need to quickly and efficiently turn around small lot sizes of parts is more important than ever.?

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The Weiler Corporation, 1121 Park West Boulevard, Suite B, #106, Mount Pleasant, SC 29466, 843-513-7205, www.weilerusa.com .

Koch Machine Tool Company, 8500 Westland West Boulevard, Houston, TX 77041, 281-720-8500, www.kochmachinetool.com .