At the beginning of this year, CONTINENTAL POWERTRAIN Romania from Brasov purchased and commissioned a die-sinking EDM machine, model AF-30 manufactured by NOVICK. This machine was selected as the optimum solution for the production activity due to its high precision and speed, as well as for its proven reliability over time.

With a turnover of 32.7 billion euro in 2012, Continental is among the most important suppliers for the auto industry in the world in the field of braking systems, propulsion and chasses systems, dashboard panels, infotainment solutions, electronic systems for cars, tires and technical products made of elastomers.

Continental Automotive Romania SRL, as part of Continental AG GROUP is one of the most important suppliers of electronic equipment for the auto industry, covering the fields of safety braking systems, dashboard displays and chassis components (electronic parking assistance).

Through the end of 2013, Continental invested more than € 830 million in its Romanian operations. All the corporation’s five divisions, are represented in Romania. Continental has seven production units and three research and development centers in the cities of Timisoara, Sibiu, Carei, Nadab, Brasov and Iasi. Continental cooperates in a joint venture in Slatina and has a tire distribution center for Eastern Europe in Sacalaz. Continental employed at the end of 2013 over 13,000 and will continue to hire nearly 1500 new employees in Romania.

At Brasov Continental Automotive Romania has recently opened a plant for the manufacturing of electro-mechanic parts, namely fuel delivery pumps, which will be installed on the most renowned auto brands in Europe. Among the customers of the Brasov plant are important players on the car market, such as: BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen Group, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Renault and Ford. Continental is one of the top specialists in the world in fuel delivery and supplies these products to all car factories in the entire Europe, straight from Brasov.

The new plant was built to considerably increase long term competitiveness in Europe. One of the main reasons for this is its constant orientation towards quality. Continental’s initiative “Quality first” is also enforced here. Thus, all the production processes are complying with the Continental philosophy - “zero mistakes”.

A major activity is that of research-development in the field of auto industry, with the strategic objective of reducing car pollution, increasing safety in car use, decreasing fuel consumption and increasing the interactivity between vehicles and the environment.

Continental is a company that is ready for the future. With the divisions ContiTech, Anvelope and Automotive, is has a unique portfolio, which ensures a stable and continuous development against the market fluctuations. Moreover, the integration of the automotive division Siemens VDO has launched Continental in a new league, transforming the venture in a supplier for the auto industry able to provide integrated systems and solutions for the mega-trends of the future: safety, ecologic orientation and interconnected information.

The undisputed qualities of Novick products are more and more noticed among the great industrial companies. The attention to detail, the incorporated state of the art technology, the high reliability parts are only a few aspects that bring these machines to the attention of all those who place quality first.

The die-sinking EDM machine, model AF-30 manufactured by Novick is a model that incorporates the latest technology worldwide in the field of die-sinking EDM.

The traditional Swiss design and the Japanese manufacturing technology have led to the creation of a machine whose performance remains constant even after many years of operation.

The robust basis, combined with the fixed worktable and the mobile electrode on the 3 axes allows the preservation of the working accuracy even when the work pieces have very large masses.

The machine’s precision components are placed on the top, where they are protected against mechanic shocks, tensions or dirt, always functioning in ideal conditions and thus ensuring a constant precision.

The constructive characteristics of the machine allow its use for a varied range of semi-finished products:

The numerical control has a flexible structure and allows the familiarization with the main processing functions in a very short period of time by any beginner or experienced operator.

The soft for the control of multiple operations in real time allows the preparation of the following program while the machine is still processing.

With the special functions such as Edge Find or Center Find, the processing process may start immediately.