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Coventry based Advanced Grinding Solutions (AGS) has announced its new partnership with Danobat the Spanish manufacturers of internal, external, and combined multi-tasking grinding machines.

Chris Boraston, MD at AGS, comments that Danobat approached AGS at this year’s Mach show and the possibility of working together here in the UK was discussed. That lead to a further meeting at the BIEMH exhibition in Bilbao whereby AGS and Danobat agreed to come together to further promote Danobat’s range of machines in the UK.

Danobat were forerunners in creating a group of machine tool manufacturers to partner together way back in 1954. Indeed the Danobat name means All Together and derives from the Basque language Danok (All) and Bat (together). Today Danobat has grown into a giant amongst grinding machine tool manufacturers with the turn-over for 2024 set to be in the region of some 200 million Euro’s. The Danobat group, that employs over 700 people globally, now includes Hembrug, the Dutch leader in manufacturing finish hard turning lathes and also Overbeck who are based in Herborn, Germany, and purchased by Danobat in 2003, who makes internal, external and radius grinding machines.

Chris Boraston comments that "we have long since recognized Danobat as a major player in the manufacturing of grinding machines and knew that they offered a broad range of machinery for many applications but were very surprised indeed to fully understand their true scope of supply and the addition of Danobat into the AGS portfolio will very much increase the range of solutions we can offer to our customers here in the UK and in Eire. Particularly we can now offer, for the first time, very high precision solutions for the grinding of large parts. To quantify; Danobat has machines capable of grinding many different types of components, from very tiny to very large ones but always with high accurate conditions/specifications.

However, Danobat also offers very high precision grinding machines capable of grinding bores down to 1mm in diameter with a sub-micron capability. The Danobat range is vast and includes internal grinding machines, external grinding machines and combined internal/external machines. It also covers for machines with multiple grinding spindles (up to 4 in the case of internal grinding) and machines that can also grind faces and radii as well as OD and ID work".

Chris concludes that Danobat are able to offer highly capable solutions for all of the applications that we have long since being supplying machinery for including all industries such as aerospace, automotive, hydraulics, transmission and medical. The applications covered by Danobat machines are vast and include shafts, gears, printing and packaging rolls, aero engine cases, stators and rotors, axial and radial piston pumps, pump shafts and valves, artificial hip joints and diesel injection components.

Igor Arambarri Berasategui, Danobat’s Area Sales Manager, comments that 2024 is turning into a very special year for the Danobat group. Earlier in the year we celebrated Danobat’s 70th anniversary and Overbeck’s 100th anniversary and we have also implemented a 12,000 sqm extension to our headquarters near to Bilbao as we expand our machine tool production capabilities to respond to an increasing demand for machines from our growing customer base. This new building, as with the other temperature controlled production buildings on our campus in Elgoibar, Spain, continues with our philosophy of having shopfloor modularity with each one being dedicated to a different type of machine or technology. We very much welcome AGS as an appointed agent for Danobat as we seek to further improve and increase out footprint into the UK and Irish markets where we have already seen a great deal of success in recent years as we now look to build upon that success working together with AGS. AGS will further compliment Danobat UK who are located in Peterborough where we have operated for over 20 years with a team dedicated to supporting all of the many Danobat machines installed in the UK and in Eire.