FROM TRADITION TO FURTHER PROGRESS:
ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH, GERMANY

In 1918 Arnold Laschet Senior set up a company in Essen (city in the Ruhr area of Germany), specialised in mechanical and electrical engineering, design of tools, fixtures, jigs, gears, devices, special machine tools, and made-to-order production. After World War II, his two sons Arnold and Guenther Laschet took over the management of his company. Since then the products, which have always been linked to the name of ARLA (abbreviation of the senior's name Arnold Laschet), have been continuously developed and distributed.

The further growth of the family-owned business led to splitting the company into two independent legal entities in 1984. Guenther Laschet and his son Dr.-Ing. Andreas Laschet set up ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH in Kuerten, a small town near Cologne. In 2002 the company moved to a new location in Wipperfuerth.

The name "Maschinentechnik" (machine technology, mechanical engineering) stands for:

• Development (R&D) of machine tools, machining units and fixtures
• Development and application of technical software
• Engineering services and technical consulting

The ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH and its highly qualified staff aim at further developing, testing and selling their own ARLA^® Machine Products (such as endworking machines, slide & table & spindle units, workholding fixtures, shift & engage levers). Due to customers' requirements, the R&D activities have included the introduction and professional use of latest CAD technology right from the beginning. Furthermore, computer simulation software (own development) is used for optimum design and testing. The cooperation with customers during every stage of development has always been one of the principal company targets to ensure high quality. ARLA presents its mechanical products at important international fairs and shows: IMTS in Chicago (USA), EMO in Hanover (Germany), METAV+TUBE in Dusseldorf (Germany). There are important key applications in the automotive and aviation industry that show ARLA's high quality and industry proven technology.

Another important field of activities covers engineering services, technical software products and also software and hardware systems for computer simulation and virtual engineering (ARLA^® Engineering). All these engineering services (including customer training) are realized with modern simulation software packages (ITI^®-SIM, ARMD™) and are applied in a wide industrial field to optimise the dynamic behaviour of drivelines: analysis of torsional & lateral vibrations, NVH analysis of complete power trains (Examples: rotating machinery, automotive & marine engineering).

Quality, reliability, and the realization of a reasonable price-performance in close cooperation with customers and suppliers are the primary aims of our company - and will be so in the future.

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ARLA Maschinentechnik GmbH
Hansestr. 2
D-51688 Wipperfuerth
GERMANY

Tel: +49 2267 6585-0
Fax: +49 2267 6585-70
www.arla-online.com
E-mail: info@arla.de