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Ground-breaking ceremony for new Franke plant

With its wire race bearings, Franke GmbH specialises in rotary and linear movements. The ground-breaking ceremony for the new Plant 6 has now taken place.

With the invention of the wire race bearing, Franke GmbH specialises in rotary and linear movements. Since 1954, not only has the product portfolio grown, but also the number of employees. This requires more space, which is why the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Plant 6 has now taken place.

With Franke quiet precision bearings for computer tomographs as well as lightweight bearings from the 3D printer. The bearings can be found in the Medical technology, in knitting machines or in tool changers. They assemble circuit boards at top speed or turn thousands of huge solar panels following the path of the sun. Construction is currently underway again: The new Plant 6 will be completed by mid-2024.

The possibilities for manufacturing products today are more diverse than ever before. Modern materials and methods offer a rich pool of Production options, ranging from simple manual labour to additive manufacturing using 3D printing. Franke wire race bearings have steel wire raceways that serve as raceways for balls. They are manufactured using traditional methods. The Housing parts of the bearings are manufactured on modern, programmable CNC machines and manufactured both individually and in large series. This means that manufacturing and CNC technology come together directly in the production process. 

Digitalisation is also an issue. Together with the teams, the processes could be mapped in the internal knowledge database Franke-WIKI. The company is therefore working on the detailed planning of orders, the creation of a customer portal on the website and the Conversion of internal document management and collaboration to cloud-based Microsoft 365.

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In terms of sustainability, the company is aiming to achieve climate neutrality by 2025. Already in the year In 2019, a CO² Footprint calculated, at the time was 990 tonnes. Furthermore, the CO² footprint of one of the core products was determined: the main storage facility for computer tomographs. This revealed that 80 per cent of the product's emissions occur in upstream or downstream processes. As a result, ways were sought together with suppliers to switch to climate-friendly processes and establish these.

Source: Franke GmbH

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