On the level
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Sara Waddington
ARKU stormed into Blechexpo 2025 in Stuttgart this October with new deburring and edge-rounding machinery, upgraded machine-tool functionality and AI-assisted control options. Andreas Hellriegel, ARKU’s sales director, outlined the company’s strategic focus, latest investments and new machinery innovations to ISMR.
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ARKU, founded in 1928 as a family-owned company, is a global specialist in roller levellers, coil lines and deburring technology. It offers an extensive range of high-capacity and precision levellers, as well as deburring and edge-rounding machines. This extensive portfolio is completed with the addition of parts handling solutions for levelling and deburring machines.
With its headquarters in Baden-Baden, Germany, and ISO-certified facilities in Cincinnati (USA) and Kunshan (China), the company operates in over 30 countries. ARKU also offers toll processing services in three levelling and deburring centres in Baden-Baden (Germany), Cincinnati (USA) and, since January 2025, in Greenville (USA) with its latest machinery. It recently set up a 3000 sq.m. second production plant in Bühl, 15 kilometres from its main site in Haueneberstein.
ARKU machines are used wherever sheet metal is processed. It provides engineering expertise to various manufacturing industries including automotive; railway equipment; shipbuilding; construction and furniture, as well as laser job shops and others.
The company presented a range of innovative levelling and deburring technology at Blechexpo 2025 in Stuttgart, Germany, this October. ISMR caught up with Andreas Hellriegel, ARKU’s sales director, on its stand at the trade show to Andreas Hellriegel, Sales Director, ARKU. find out more……
New machinery investments
ARKU stormed into Blechexpo with new deburring and edge-rounding machinery, upgraded machine-tool functionality and AI-assisted control options.
The company’s EdgeBreaker® 6000 deburring machine for laser-cut and punched parts, on display at its booth at Blechexpo, also handles edge rounding and surface finishing with the flexibility needed by laser job shops.
The new EdgeBreaker® 3000 NEXT was also demonstrated removing laser burrs from the top and bottom sides of a part (double-sided deburring) in a single pass and featuring the AI-assisted ARKU Wizard control.
“We have made a lot of machinery improvements and innovations such as our new control system or two-sided deburring and heavy parts (2mm radius) processing. We have also added automation functions so that laser-cut and punched parts on deburring machines or levellers can now also be loaded and unloaded. Last but not least, we have added more power to our FlatMaster® precision levelling machines,” Andreas Hellriegel, ARKU’s sales director, told ISMR.
“Just recently, we introduced the new EdgeBreaker® 3000 FIBER, specifically developed for the deburring and edge rounding of fibre laser-cut parts. It combines a powerful grinding belt for double-sided deburring to remove even the hardest burrs. The machine also includes specialised rounding blocks which smoothly round all the edges,” he continued.
To read the rest of this interview in the November 2025 issue of ISMR, see https://joom.ag/efDd/p54