After two years of construction and €40m of investment, Trumpf has opened its expanded facility in Pasching, Austria, including new production halls and its own smart factory.
7,000 sqm of new production halls and 850 sqm of office space have recently been added to Trumpf’s production and business capacity, with the opening of an expansion to the multi-technology manufacturing company’s Austrian site in Pasching.
“With this major investment, the Trumpf Group is expressing its long-term commitment to Austria as a location. Pasching is one of our most important locations outside Germany, and one to which we feel a special cultural affinity,” said Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller, CEO of Trumpf.
As “one of Upper Austria’s flagship companies,” said the area’s Governor, Thomas Stelzer, “Trumpf Maschinen Austria’s cooperation with the surrounding schools, educational centres and universities of applied sciences should be emphasised.”
‘Customers and interested parties at one of the new facility’s various theme islands before the official opening. Image: Trumpf
Automation at smart factory
A key part of the expansion of the site is the new Smart Factory. Equipped with state-of-the-art automation machinery, the company is able to manufacture and process sheet metal parts using a laser hybrid welding system to weld large parts like machine frames and supply them to other Trumpf locations.
On the other hand, the Trumpf is also able to present its latest innovations in sheet metal processing to customers at the site. “The heart of the site expansion is the Smart Factory,” said Trumpf Maschinen Austria managing director Thilo Preß.
Sustainable business practices
In order to meet the increased power demands of the new facilities, Trumpf has included an energy centre to both generate and store a carbon-neutral energy supply, installing a wood chip heating system, multiple heat pumps and an expanded photovoltaic network.
Further expansion
Work on the expansion was completed little over 12 months after the company announced it would begin the construction of a new 34,000-square-metre laser development facility at the company’s headquarters in Ditzingen. The €70m location will house Trumpf’s laser technology for EUV (extreme ultraviolet lithography), used to pattern the small feature sizes of advanced semiconductor chips.
