Machinery builder Desma recently celebrated their success in the industry with an open house held last month. 500 visitors attended the international industry event on September 27th and 28th. The event focused on cutting-edge topics regarding the development and integration of production solutions, digitalization and automation. “Let’s talk future!” was the event’s central theme.
The managing director, Martin Schürmann, kicked off the event with a lecture on the challenges mega trends pose in a time of rapid change and the various solutions Desma already offers. While the turnover of the Desma Group has doubled from almost EUR€50 million to just over EUR€100 million in the past ten years, EUR€23 million have been invested across all locations.
The most recent projects expand the production areas at the locations in Germany and Fridingen by 2,200 sqm. Added to that is the establishment of a mould shop in China, the acquisition of the fourth high-performance milling centre in Slovakia, and the largest single investment into machinery, the time machine, a combined turning and milling centre with robot automation for the location in Fridingen that cost EUR€2.3 million. Mr. Schürmann emphasized that the 100% outsourcing strategy of many builders of special machinery would degrade them to mere assembly operations.
“Desmatsuda.”
The international activities of Desma are now complemented by the cooperation with the Japanese injection moulding machine supplier Matsuda. Both companies will produce a jointly developed machine design under the concept name “desmatsuda”, which is tailored to the increasing demands of Japanese production companies in the NAFTA market.
Mr. Schürmann emphasized that neither Matsuda nor Desma will change their marketing in the Japanese market. Additional and further opportunities that could result from the cooperation of the two companies are further future issues.