IN 2006, Weisskopf in Meiningen, Thuringia, already employs around 50 people.
Specialist for special and micro tools: WEISSKOPF
1993–2025
Weißkopf Werkzeuge GmbH has built up an excellent reputation as a manufacturer of high-quality drilling and milling tools in just a few years. Since MAPAL acquired the company in Thuringia in 2012, it has grown rapidly and complements the MAPAL Group's product portfolio with small series and particularly delicate drills for special applications.
SMALL BUT NICE
Frank Weißkopf founded Weißkopf Werkzeuge GmbH in 1993 in Hildburghausen, Thuringia, as a one-man company. In 1996, he moved the company headquarters to a newly built production facility in Meiningen. Early on, he specialised in drilling and milling tools made of solid carbideor fitted with PCD (polycrystalline diamond) cutting edges. He quickly wins customers with customised solutions and high quality. Just under a decade after it was founded, the company employs around 50 people. And arouses the interest of MAPAL, which sees the precision tools from Meiningen as an ideal addition to its own product portfolio.
In 2012, MAPAL buys Weißkopf Werkzeuge GmbH without changing the name of the company, as in other cases. Dr Jochen Kress, one of two Managing Directors at WEISSKOPF since 2014, succeeds in convincing the initially sceptical workforce that MAPAL is pursuing long-term plans. These include not only maintaining the site, but also investing heavily in expanded production capacities with state-of-the-art machines. It soon becomes clear that the company, which had previously focussed mainly on the German market, is benefiting enormously from the MAPAL Group's international presence.
In 2015, construction work begins on an extension that doubles the production area and provides new rooms for the administration. Ten state-of-the-art CNC machines are also purchased. When the new building goes into operation in 2016, WEISSKOPF's workforce has almost doubled since the takeover by MAPAL.
In close cooperation with the MAPAL centre of competence MILLER in Altenstadt, WEISSKOPF now produces solid carbide tools that can be delivered quickly in small batches, special solid carbide small tools, for example for injection nozzles or medical technology, as well as special tools, and also offers a regional service for reconditioning tools. The companies Radtke and voha tosec, which specialise in die & mould and joined the MAPAL Group in 2017 and 2018, have now also been integrated into WEISSKOPF GmbH.
