WTE Präzisionstechnik is now the MAPAL Centre of Competence for clamping chucks.
With MAPAL to the top of the world: WTE Präzisionstechnik
1996–2025
The young company AWT, later WTE, specialises in high-precision clamping chucks and improves them with significant innovations. In 2008, it becomes part of the MAPAL Group as a centre of competence for clamping chucks and develops into one of the world's leading manufacturers in this field.
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In 1996, Hans-Ulrich Voigtländer and Otto Zettl founded “Annaberger Werkzeug Technik” (AWT) in Annaberg, Saxony. A company run by Zettl, a native of the Allgäu region, in Dietmannsried takes over sales. It later moves to Kempten, where it now operates under the management of Peter Tausend as WTE Spanntechnik. The young company in the Ore Mountains focusses on the production of high-quality drill chucks and precision tool holders with the highest requirements for reliable clamping forces with high concentricity. It is so successful that production is relocated from a rented building to a new building in Ehrenfriedersdorf just four years after the company is founded. In addition to CNC precision drill chucks, standard NC drill chucks and shrink chucks are now also included in the programme.
In 2002, AWT Präzisionstechnik and the Kempten-based sales company WTE Spanntechnik merge to form “Werkzeug Technik Ehrenfriedersdorf Präzisionstechnik GmbH” (WTE). Sales, distribution and administration remain in Kempten, production in the Ore Mountains. With the expansion of the product range to include hydraulic expansion technology in 2002, WTE recognises an important trend early on and creates a third pillar with great growth potential.
No wonder MAPAL is taking notice of the upcoming company. After all, clamping chucks are playing an increasingly important role in the strategy of turning the MAPAL Group into a supplier of complete solutions. In 2008, MAPAL acquires the clamping chuck specialists and begins to expand the still workshop-like company in Ehrenfriedersdorf into a highly centre of competence.
New production halls were built in 2012 and 2015, increasing the production area in Ehrenfriedersdorf to over 5,000 square metres. Above all, however, production is largely automated and optimised in terms of product quality. For example, with almost autonomously operating 5-axis turning/milling centres or an ultra-modern grinding/turning centre with workpiece storage and an ultra-modern high-vacuum brazing and hardening furnace. Today, around 120 employees at WTE Präzisionstechnik work in three shifts to produce mainly standard products for the MAPAL Group, but also for the international trade.
