Manufacturing Technology NORD in Gadebusch

Housing, shaft and screw production

In 1991, Fertigungstechnik NORD GmbH was founded in Gadebusch in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and production began in January 1993. Since then, the production area has grown from 2000 m2 to 13,700 m2. Currently, 198 employees work at the plant and the number of manufactured components is more than 1.8 million per year.

High degree of automation and short setup times

Production in Gadebusch is chatacterised by lean processes and a very high degree of automation. The machines are automatically loaded with blanks and order tracking from receipt to delivery ensures on-time transport of the finished parts to the other NORD sites. Reduced set-up times over the years enable economical production of small batch sizes. Quality assurance at Fertigungstechnik NORD is carried out through defined cycles on optical measuring machines and 3-D coordinate measuring machines.

Housings

  • Production of housings for spur, bevel, worm, flat and industrial gearboxes as well as Nordbloc housings
  • Automated production of housings on 15 modern machining centres with feeding from pallet rack system

Shafts

  • Automated set-up of turning-milling centres
  • Assembly via robots
  • 80 percent of shafts are produced in one step
  • Production according to complex customer requirements

Screws

  • Production of the worm profile by cold forming
  • Production of perforated and shank screws, module from 0.8 to 3.2 pitch from i=7.5 to i=100; number of teeth from 1 to 6
  • Production on three lathes and two cold rolling machines
  • Automated shaft production and robot loading

Heat recovery in production

In 2012, Fertigungstechnik NORD GmbH developed a concept for heat recovery from processing machines. Since then, the recovered energy has been used to heat halls and offices and even to generate hot water. Since then, the company has been continuously improving and expanding its energy management in order to become increasingly independent of fossil fuels.

How to find us

Fertigungstechnik NORD
Trittauer Straße 5
19205 Gadebusch
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

From Hamburg

Head northeast on “Horner Kreisel” onto the A24 towards “Berlin/Schwerin/Lübeck/Bremen”. Remain on the A24 for the next 70 km then take the exit no. 10-“Wittenburg”. After leaving the A24 take the first exit of the roundabout and follow the L4 for 3,5 km. Take again the first exit of the roundabout onto the L5 and follow the L5 for 17 km. When you reach the village “Lützow” turn left into the “Gadebuscher Straße”/B104. Then take the B104 for 4,5 km and turn right into the “Trittauer Straße” after passing the place name sign of “Gadebusch” (signpost "Gewerbegebiet”). After a few hundred metres you reach your destination.

From Berlin

Merge onto the A114 in northern direction. Change at the freeway interchange no.1-“Pankow” onto the A10 towards “Hamburg”. Follow the course of the road until you reach the A24 towards “Hamburg/Schwerin”. At exit no. 20–freeway interchange “Wittstock/Dosse” merge onto the freeway A24 towards “Hamburg/Schwerin”. Follow the A24 until you reach the exit no. 10–“Wittenburg” and take this exit. After leaving the A24 take the first exit of the roundabout and follow the L4 for 3,5 km. Take again the first exit of the roundabout onto the L5 and follow the L5 for 17 km. At the village “Lützow” turn left into the “Gadebuscher Straße”/B104. Then take the B104 for 4,5 km and turn right into the “Trittauer Straße” after passing the place name sign of “Gadebusch” (signpost "Gewerbegebiet”). After a few hundred metres you reach your destination.

From Schwerin

Drive on the B104 towards “Gadebusch/Lübeck/Ludwigslust” for the next 20 km. Turn right into the “Trittauer Straße” after passing the place name sign of “Gadebusch” (signpost "Gewerbegebiet”). After a few hundred metres you reach your destination.

From Lübeck

Merge onto the A20 towards “Rostock”. Drive on the highway until you reach exit no. 5 – “Schönberg”. After leaving the speedway turn right onto the B104 towards “Schwerin/Gadebusch/Rehna”. Follow the B104 and pass through “Gadebusch”. Drive for 1,5 km along the B104 and then turn left into the “Trittauer Straße” (signpost "Gewerbegebiet“). After a few hundred metres you reach your destination.