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solutions — from the initial market and feasibility studies to the maturity phase of new technologies and the optimization of your business processes. In addition to technical innovation, we also focus on a higher economic efficiency and the increase of your competitiveness.

As a result of its long-time experience, the aachener werkzeug- und formenbau is the ideal partner for companies that wish to locate, consolidate and expand their own position from a strategic and technological point of view.
As an established partner of tool and die making industry we have been providing orientation and overview in market and competition since 1995. The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT and the Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering WZL at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, are combining their tool making expertise in the common business area aachener werkzeug- und formenbau (awf).

We mainly focus on services for the branch, however, we do not produce tools ourselves. The Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation CMI in Boston constitutes an additional settlement in the USA. Approximately 60 scientists with experience and expertise work at our institutes in the field of tool and die making. The basis of our knowledge comprises the world’s largest benchmarking database for companies in the field of tool and die making.

With our know-how and the unique infrastructure of our institutes, we are able to offer integrated
In this way you co-operate with us
The laboratory for machine tools WZL in RWTH Aachen