The company Hofmann Vratny was founded in 1976 by Gerd Hofmann and Zdenek Vratny Since founder Gerd Hofmann left the company in 2014 Andreas Vratny has led the company together with his father and former fellow student Marius Heine mann Grüder Today around 85 employ ees work at the company s main location along with an additional 15 at a second lo cation in Nuremberg Each year Hofmann Vratny manufacture more than 1 6 mil lion milling cutters in 7000 different de signs The smallest milling cutters with a cutting diameter of 0 1 millimetres are used for card chip designs on smart cards while the largest tools with a diameter of 32 mm are primarily used in the aviation and aerospace industries What do you think this is down to Marius Heinemann Grüder Abdul Daddy Mansaray familiarised himself with our processes within a very short space of time Besides which his youthful enthusi asm and sunny disposition have a positive impact on morale throughout the company Andreas Vratny He s had an impact on the continuing education of our other staff as well one of our veteran employees is now bringing his English dictionary to work so that he can talk to Abdul Daddy Mansaray an ideal training programme for both parties An international workforce and global reach for your tools which sectors in particular rely on your milling cutters Andreas Vratny From a historical perspective the spectacles industry was the first one we supplied with our profile cutters In the meantime we have come to sup ply a broad spectrum of solid carbide milling cutters with diameters ranging from a tenth of a millimetre to 32 millimetres Our micro tools are primarily used by compa nies in medical engineering and the semiconductor industry while our solid carbide milling cutters are mostly found in sectors like mechanical engineering aerospace engineering and the automotive industry Our blue milling cutters are used all over the world and are particularly sought after where materials like metal aluminium titanium stainless steel and composites are precision machined As regards the blue coating why did you choose that colour Marius Heinemann Grüder We mostly chose the colour blue for the coating for aesthetic reasons That said blue is also a colour that communicates confidence and reliability and that makes it a good fit for us What s more we distribute our milling cutters to a wide network of partners and the blue coating consequently pro vides a degree of brand recognition for our products in the market Andreas Vratny Smiles And given our location in Assling blue also stands for Bavaria and the blue skies that usually adorn our Alpine panorama of course Incidentally we use a similar panoramic image to welcome visitors to our website we re always glad when people drop by for a look You ve founded another company besides Hofmann Vratny What s the connection between the two Andreas Vratny Our second enterprise is a software company that is only indirectly involved with Hofmann Vratny We re developing an application for deployment in the context of Industry 4 0 in the broadest sense We are still in the development phase Marius Heinemann Grüder That company is also a hobby which we had the idea for while we were studying information systems The software simulates production procedures with product life cycle mapping it could be of interest to Hofmann Vratny in the future as well but I won t reveal any more than that www hofmann vratny de Fully integrated in the team Abdul Daddy Mansaray feels right at home at Hofmann Vratny Our second enterprise a software company is also a hobby 33

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