Metal & plastics technology

- Metal & Plastics Technology Division
The Metal & Plastics Technology Division (MK) covers the complete manufacturing facilities of HUMMEL AG. On a production floor space of over 4,500 m2, HUMMEL products in particular are manufactured in accordance with ISO 9001:2008:
- cable glands,
- circular connectors,
- industrial enclosures,
- ventilating valves,...
In addition, these manufacturing facilities make it possible to provide special solutions, tailor-made to customers' requirements. With our advanced machinery and plant, and the proficiency acquired from 60 years of metal and plastics processing, we fabricate special components to customers' specifications, including those for other well-known manufacturers, for instance heating circuit distributors, for electronics and automobile component suppliers, for musical instruments and for optoelectronics.
By doing so, HUMMEL underlines not only its own product quality, but also provides customers with HUMMEL quality for their own products.
The MK Division currently employees over 100 workers.
The HUMMEL range of services covers, among others things:
Materials:
non-ferrous metals (brass, aluminium, nickel silver, red bronze, etc.),
automatic machining steels, stainless steels
plastics (injection technology, bars)
zinc die-casting
Dimensions:
multi-spindle lathes from ø 5 mm up to ø 52mm
single spindle lathes from ø 8 mm up to ø 100mm
Machinery for metal removal / injection moulding:
ring turning machine (material from ring) ø 0.5mm - 5mm
single spindle CNC lathe ø 5mm - 100mm
multi-spindle lathe, cam-controlled ø 5mm - 52mm
multi-spindle lathe CNC ø 8mm - 52mm
CNC lathe for feeding with bar stock - ø 160mm
machining centres
zinc die-casting
plastic injection moulding machine (locking pressure + weight of component)
vertical injection moulding machine for injection moulding around inserts
Assembly:
complete assembly of sub-assemblies (small to medium-size runs)
Coating:
electroplating (drum nickel plating in-house)
suspended goods (nickel-plating, chrome-finishing, gold-plating, tin-plating, anodising, etc. ) possible at any time on request
Tool mould making:
in our in-house toolmaking department, all internal and external injection moulding and die-casting machines are built and maintained.
As a rule, all parts made to customers' specifications are supplied free of grease, oil and swarf.





