At the opening ceremony of Danobat Group Shanghai Excel Center, SORALUCE, the global leader in the boring and milling machine industry (Danobat Group’s boring and milling brand), grandly opened its first large-scale boring and milling machine center exhibition machine in China, and teamed up with Siemens cutting-edge CNC system to fully present the digital twin technology of machine tools for users from all over the country. Solarus global CEO and global business director also attended the scene, to industry partners and media expressed their determination to firmly invest in China and continue to implement the localization strategy.

Figure 1: Solarus At the opening ceremony of Danobat Group’s Shanghai Center of Excellence, Shanda unveiled its first large-scale boring and milling machine in China – the PMG 12000 moving column gantry Machining Center.

Continue to deepen and strive to build China into the first market of the Group

Solarus is one of the four sub-brands of Danobate Group, Spain’s largest machine tool manufacturer, and a global technology leader in the medium and large parts processing industry for more than 60 years. At present, Solarus has a complete and lean product line including various types of milling machines, boring machines, vertical lathes, multifunctional and automation solutions, more than 3,000 global assembly equipment, nearly 80% of customers choose to buy back, in the construction machinery, energy equipment, aerospace, rail transportation and many other industries have a high brand awareness.

Figure 3: Mr. Rafael Idigoras, Global CEO of Solarus, speaks during the opening ceremony media conference.

“China has always been of strategic importance to Solarus, with its huge potential and unique market environment. We are looking forward to long-term development here and have taken a solid step towards this goal by enabling users in China to experience Solarus product technology and solutions directly through the Danobat Group’s Shanghai Center of Excellence.” Solarus Global CEO Rafael Idigoras (Rafael Igoras) said, “At the same time, we are also firmly optimistic about the development of China’s demand in important industries and innovation fields such as new energy, aerospace, automation technology, and will continue to pour resources into the market, and spare no effort to promote the upgrade of local customers.” “Our goal is to make China our number one market in the next five years.”

Mr. David Gonzalez, Global Business Director of Solarus, added: “Since our first entry into the Chinese market more than 30 years ago, Solarus has been striving to respond to customer needs as quickly as possible and continuously improve customer satisfaction. That’s why we’ve been working hard to deploy the full local value chain, from research and development, production, to sales, to after-sales service and training. The launch of the Shanghai Center of Excellence has injected energy into each of the above links: with the new display machine, users can carry out functional testing and sample cutting; The scale and capability of the localization technical team will be further improved; With the help of Danobat Group’s new service “Honor Box”, we can cooperate with supplier partners in various fields to provide customers with more professional and efficient test and application solutions; Using the automation lab space of the Center, we will help our customers face new challenges in intelligent manufacturing environment with industry-leading automation and digital solutions…”

For the first time in history, imported large exhibition machines made a grand appearance

As the first display machine of Solarus in China, and also a high-end super heavy imported machine tool, the PMG 12000 moving column gantry machining center in Shanghai Center of Excellence became the “protagonist” at the opening ceremony. In order to move this “big guy” to China, Solarus prepared for up to a year, from transportation to commissioning, from the Spanish headquarters to the Chinese company, all departments worked together and actively coordinated, and the Shanghai Center of Excellence built a special foundation up to ten meters deep to support the heavy load of the machine. To be able to take the trouble to introduce such high-value equipment to China for customers to visit and experience, this move is very rare in all foreign machine tool manufacturers, especially large machine tool manufacturers, and it is enough to prove that Solarus wants to enter the local market and build its world’s top boring and milling machine tool brand in China.

“In terms of configuration, the new PMG 12000 has an X/Y/Z triaxial travel of 12/4.5/2 meters, a 60kW direct-drive spindle, an automatic attachment head replacement system with 3 attachment head stations, including a one-thousandth of the universal head and a vertical fixed boring and milling head; In terms of performance, the machine is equipped with a series of cutting-edge technology and Solarus patented technology, such as the latest Siemens ONE CNC system, dynamic milling head calibration, adaptive control and dynamic active damping damping system, making the machine exceptional and distinctive in machining accuracy, machining efficiency, human-machine dialogue operation and maintenance. The machine is also versatile and can complete the entire process in one clamp, making it an efficient ‘weapon’ for machinery manufacturing, energy, shipbuilding, mining and other fields.” Mr. Qu Xiaoyong, General Manager of Sales of China Boring and Milling Division of Danobat Group, said, “With this exhibition machine, we can more directly and in more detail show the configuration, performance and work flow of Solarus machine tools to users, and also provide a variety of value-added services such as equipment training, trial cutting and application solution development. And this is not the only display machine for Solarus in China – another FS floor boring and milling machine is already in the works and is expected to be installed in the Shanghai Center of Excellence in April 2024.”