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Team on 07 November 2005
Wahl optoparts expands tooling capacity
German injection moulding toolmaker Wahl optoparts has opened a Muehlhausen site, following acquisition of Kodak's Optical Imaging Systems unit.
Wahl optoparts, a subsidiary of Jenoptik (Photonics business division) opened a Muehlhausen site (Baden-Wuerttemberg), effective October 1, 2005 For this purpose Wahl optoparts acquired, among other things, assets of Kodak's Optical Imaging Systems unit
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 18 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Kodak produced plastic optical components using injection molding in Muehlhausen until summer this year.
With the opening of the new Muehlhausen site, Wahl optoparts expands in particular the capacity for tooling and injection-molding as well as for measuring tools used in the production process.
With this additional capacity in tooling the lead times for customer projects will be reduced.
The expansion of the injection-molding capacities does focus especially on high-volume products, manufactured totally automated.
Additionally, the Jenoptik subsidiary will also benefit from the comprehensive expertise in metrology, an essential requirement in the high-quality production of very precise optical components for imaging systems.
Currently Wahl optoparts has 12 employees at the Muhlhausen site.
Within the next years the site will be expanded not only for tooling and automation solutions, but also for the manufacturing of products with more than 5 million in volume.
* About Wahl optoparts - Wahl optoparts develops, produces and distributes custom-made optical components and plastic optoelectronic component assemblies.
Friedrich A Wahl founded the company as a family enterprise for plastic lenses in the vicinity of Kassel, Germany in 1956.
Since 1988 it has been run by Gabriele Wahl-Multerer.
The company merged with the plastic optics unit of Carl Zeiss, a former East German state-run company, in 1991, precipitating the Wahl optoparts relocation from Munich to Triptis, near the East German company's base in Neustadt/Orla.
Wahl optoparts currently has more than 200 employees, and has been a full Jenoptik subsidiary within the Photonics business division since December 2003.
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