This year, Fecken-Kirfel will celebrate its 150th anniversary. An age that is anything but self-evident for a company. So we can truly be a bit proud of it. Over 150 years we have managed to defy every crisis and continue to grow. „We plan at long-term and strategically on a healthy economic basis and develop continuously – these are the reasons for our success.  We can rely on our motivated and innovative employees who always look ahead – into the future”, says Volker Schiffer, Managing Director of Fecken-Kirfel.
Tradition. Innovation. Future. – Our slogan for this anniversary points out where our routes are, what sustains us and what drives us.  Let us take a look together at what these aspects mean for us.

Today, more than 320 Fecken-Kirfel Vertical CNC Contour Cutting Centres are in operation worldwide. A success story that was only possible as the company dared to look beyond its own horizon. In this fourth article on the history of the Fecken-Kirfel machines, we focus on the evolution of the V Series from the first manual vertical cutting machine designed in 1956 to the current solutions for the flexible and efficient production of small and larger contour parts. At present, fully automatic cutting lines that combine a horizontal splitting machine and a vertical contour cutting centre, as well as a wide range of software solutions, constitute the current state-of-the-art offered by Fecken-Kirfel.

On the occasion of the international trade fairs interzum 2019 and K 2019 we have presented our “latest state of the art”- user interfaces with the industrial Windows 10 IoT.    Meanwhile, the first Fecken-Kirfel machines with the new user interface have been delivered. This is the right time to check how you as a customer can benefit.
Michael Tillmann, our technical director, answers the most important questions about the new interfaces for operating contour cutting machines based on a CNC control as well as vertical and horizontal cutting machines based on an IPC control.