Bayerschmidt Kunststoffe GmbH, Roding
Bayerschmidt Kunststoffe GmbH was named company of the month by the business development agency of the Upper Palatine region. Winning the company this award: the precision of its technologies and its ability to carry out highly challenging commissions. “Bayerschmidt GmbH shows that it is possible for a company to become a leader in its field—in this case, plastics processing—within ten short years after having been founded,“ states Nicole Stelzle, the agency’s managing director. The company is a specialist in using ready-made feedstock forms in the manufacturing and distributing of milled and machined parts. “Handling commissions containing a great deal of individual content is our specialty. Our main objective is to realize customer wishes in the best possible way,“ states Gerhard Bayerschmidt, managing director of Bayerschmidt Kunststoffe GmbH.
As he notes, the special nature of many commissions requires the reconfiguring of production processes to meet these needs. This reconfiguration is also triggered by ever-changing situations on markets. “We use in-depth consultations to make sure that our customer’s wishes jibe with the technical conditions. There are no pieces which we are incapable of realizing. All pieces are created using painstaking precision and ingenuity.” The range of the individually-commissioned products manufactured by the company include test inlays incorporated into shoulders and hips, armatures forming part of optical measurement systems, and feed cups used in the manufacturing of smart cards. These parts are used in industrial, automotive and electronics engineering; in medical technologies; and in food processing. “Our high-quality products operate according to specifications and under extreme conditions— temperatures ranging from -40°C to 260°C or high-stress situations,” reports Bayerschmidt. As he notes, plastics can be used in a great variety of ways. “Plastics are materials with both a long history and a great future. Consumption of plastics will continue to increase in the years to come,“ explains Bayerschmidt in responding to the question how he and his company manage to create new areas of product application.
He views the development of plastics as having reached the point at which they can serve as replacements for other materials: “As a large number of environmental balance sheets and life-of-use analyses confirm, plastics make in many cases better ecologic and economic sense than materials currently being used,” Bayerschmidt concludes. As Nicole Stelzle points out, such considerations are shared by many companies in the region—and by her agency itself. “We are particularly interested in providing support to companies which are actively pursuing the protection of the environment and fostering the effective use of energies.” The successes achieved by Bayerschmidt’s company are a result of painstaking preparations. Among them: the rigorous pursuit of the highest levels of quality. “Our state-of-technology manufacturing plant enables us to achieve an ultra-high level of production. This, in turn, yields best-on-market levels of quality and reliability. Our greatest assets are the qualifications and dedication of our 60 employees. They are the reason why we always meet our deadlines,” explains Bayerschmidt.
As of this writing, eight trainee specialists staffing the lathing and milling operations are participating in an-house program of ongoing occupational education. It will make them professionals in the application of state-of-technology processes in milling operations. “Advanced presetting devices employing digital imaging technologies permit the measurement of tools and the assessment of geometries of cutting within tolerances of 0. 002 millimeters,” explains Bayerschmidt. The resulting data is transferred to and fed into the CNC lathing and milling centers. Its policies of purposefully investing in measurement systems and in industrial equipment are the reasons why the company has maintained its position of strength on its markets. To produce its high-precision, multi-layer products, the company is currently operating two or even three shifts a day. The company’s CEO is looking forward to the sustaining of these successes, as “this is the only way that Bayerschmidt GmbH can maintain its leadership of the plastics processing field.”