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On 8 February, the new Leitz branch in Kaunas, Lithuania was officially opened by our shareholder, Dr. Cornelia Brucklacher, and Jürgen Köppel, Spokesman of the Management Board, in the presence of customers and partners.

One's own home is the center of one's life. Not least due to the life-changing events of the past months, a large part of the population spends more time within their own four walls than ever before. In many places, this has increased the desire for a relaxing and comfortable home as well as high-quality interior design. Colors inspired by nature, natural materials and a clear, reduced design are popular.

In furniture production, perfect machining results and the highest possible feed rates are required for sizing individual panels. This applies to the production of small batches as well as to batch size 1 production. For both process specifications, the required quality and the time factor are decisive. Especially with changing support materials and coatings. Here, time-consuming reworking, excessive tool wear and the associated loss of time turn every production into an economic challenge.

Compact laminates such as HPL, hard paper or hard fabric find a wide range of applications due to their design possibilities and robust properties. This material is especially popular in furniture, kitchen and trade fair construction, in façade construction but also in the sanitary sector. HPL is particularly in great demand where robust properties and the highest standards have to be met. However, the tool stress during the machining of compact laminates is high because the surface coating has a corresponding hardness.

for lasting guarantee of flexible and productive CNC machining with shank tools.
High quality on the workpiece can only be guaranteed with high-quality tool clamping technology.

With the designation "Leitz - The Precision Tool", the world market and technology leader from Oberkochen presents itself as a proud member of the "Brands of the Century" club. The internationally recognised quality mark is awarded to companies that have been active for decades as trendsetters and pioneers in their respective industries and whose brand is known by a broad public for quality, innovation and style.

At the end of the previous year, Leitz GmbH & Co. KG was awarded the Innovation Award of the Eastern Württemberg Chamber of Industry and Commerce - for the development of the flexTrim3 automatic profile changing system.

“Germany’s best companies for careers” – this was the title of an independent survey on career opportunities in German family businesses. The Leitz Group from Oberkochen was ranked 17th out of 500 companies.

Continuous working on optimal tool concepts – this user report about the Hunger Möbelproduktions GmbH from the magazine "möbelfertigung" (issue 4/2021) shows how Leitz acts as an important partner here.

This user report about the company Ballerina Küchen from the magazine "dds" (issue 07/2021) shows how the specially developed triple tool from Leitz represents a high time saving.