Despite the economic situation DST has won one of its biggest orders ever against international competition. Korean aircraft constructor, KAI Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. based in Sacheon City, has placed an order for seven ECOSPEED F high-performance machining centres, including a rail guided transport system, in a multi-million deal with the machine tool specialists from Mönchengladbach.

DST has, since 2003, once again been active in Russia, updating and strengthening old contacts and making new ones. "Since then we have been consistently increasing our annual turnover to the ten million Euro we achieve today", summarised Hubert Erz, Sales Manager for Germany and the north-eastern part of the globe. For example, the three large manufacturers of powerful valves (up to 1.4m throughput diameter) for power transmission pipelines rank amongst DST’s customers in Russia. Besides his Sales Manager role, Mr. Erz also manages the Representation Office, which opened on 1^st October 2008 in conjunction with his deputy is Igor Zhavrid, a Russian citizen

LESER, a leading manufacturer of quality safety valves and equipment has opted for a new concept of machine tool. Large valve bodies and their spring covers are now produced in a single set-up on a Scharmann DBF 630 high performance horizontal machining center from Dörries Scharmann.

Hansen Transmissions International nv has ordered 14 large-scale lathes from Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH (DST), a wholly owned subsidiary of A-TEC Industries AG (Vienna).

If any of the 600 members of staff at Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH (DST) falls into difficult circumstances they will in future be able to count on financial assistance from a new fund announced today in Mönchengladbach. The fund has been set up on the occasion of the change in ownership of the traditional machine tool company.

A new high performance machining centre from Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH (DST) has been selected by a supply chain company to the international Aerospace Industry within months of its launch. At the International Aerospace Supply Fair AIRTEC in Frankfurt/Germany, Moyola Precision Engineering Ltd. ordered an ECOSPEED F HT.

The Austrian leader in ropeway quality and technology, Doppelmayr Seilbahnen GmbH, has invested in its future. The company has purchased a type FOGS D40 multi-functional machining centre from DST.

World famous Swiss precision is not confined to clocks . specialists at what is now Burckhardt Compression AG have been producing compressors since 1844. Their accuracy has helped them achieve the world pressure record of 3,600 bar and service lives of anything up to 85 years. In turn, their production specialists demand optimum quality from their machine tools. The 5 µm average positioning accuracy offered by the ALPHA 1250M machining centre from Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH (DST) was a decisive factor inits selection

Around the world, Aircraft manufacturers and their suppliers set extremely high manufacturing standards for their sub-contractors. The NorthAmerican market plays a key part in this global business process. Dörries Scharmann Technologie GmbH, a German Machine Tool Builder takes the initiative to educate the aircraft structural machining community in future oriented technology.

Special tasks require special solutions. This applies also to high-precision machining of high-strength materials. And especially if the workpieces are distinctive for their complex, non-rotational-symmetrical geometries. Examples of these are industrial or offshore fittings and valves, axle journals for vans and special vehicles, or drill bits for oil and gas exploration drilling. The machining centre DBF 630 from DST is convincing when it comes to machining workpieces with turning circles of up to 850 mm.

The mechanical engineering producer P. van der Wegen Gears B.V. specialises in the production of large, heavy and precise components. Precision manufacture in the order of a few microns on work pieces up to 16m diameter is considered normal everyday business in the companies air conditioned work bays. Because of these precise demands, van der Wegen requires the finest quality machine tools. This need is met by the vertical turning centre of DST.

Highly dynamic simultaneous 5-axis machining.

In May 2005 production engineers at Liebherr Aerospace started the production on their new high-speed machining centre. After critical tests and intensive evaluation they eventually acquired a Droop Rein FOGS D40 Over-Head Gantry High Speed Machining Center from DST Eighteen months later, Bernd Molinari, Production Engineering Manager at Liebherr Aerospace, takes stock. "Machining quality has met the forecast values; at 95% availability is well over that of comparable machines, and productivity in terms of time per workpiece has risen by 25 percent. All things considered, the machining centre has manifestly surpassed our expectations."

Situated near Belfast, MOYOLA Precision Engineering (MOYOLA) in Castledawson, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, is the first customer in the world to take delivery of an ECOSPEED F equipped with both the new integral C axis and Angular Milling Head. This additional axis, together with the integrated angled head, enables full five-axis face machining of complex aerospace components using a single setting. This is the first machining centre to use an "integral C axis" in combination with parallel kinematics for multi-axes machining.

Machining centers of the ALPHA series are able to do the splits between New and Proven: Their concept is still new, but this innovative concept and its implementation has already been proven by the first machines in hard continuous operation. This is how Hosokawa Alpine Aktiengesellschaft, Augsburg, today support their investment made in 2001 today.