October 2024 marks a significant milestone for the REGO-FIX Group: The Swiss company from Baselland has opened a state-of-the-art learning center in Whitestown, Indiana, with a new 12,900 square meters building adjacent to its existing U.S. headquarters.
At the heart of the new facility is the Application Center, showcasing cutting-edge machining technologies on multiple milling and turning machines. Visitors are offered a unique opportunity to experience innovative technologies in real-world applications. This neutral platform provides specialists in cutting tools, clamping systems, software, automation, and metrology with an exclusive opportunity to engage with a broad and highly knowledgeable U.S. audience—including end users, distribution partners, academic institutions, and other key stakeholders.
The facility is managed by experienced machining professionals and technologists skilled in delivering high-level technical expertise in a practical and accessible manner. The goal is to offer professionals deep insights into complex machining processes. Switzerland holds a leading role in this field, and many SWISSMEM partners have already pledged their support.
A spacious auditorium with 70 seats offers ample room for demonstrations. Equipped with modern video and audio technology, it allows for training sessions and seminars where participants can learn about and discuss the latest trends and advancements in machining technology firsthand.
The opening ceremony on October 24, 2024, was attended by the three sons of the company founder, Fritz Weber, who celebrated the occasion with numerous guests from both Switzerland and the U.S. For Richard, Andreas, and Stefan Weber, this was a natural next step in the U.S. market, following REGO-FIX's first U.S. branch opening in 1988 and its decades-long success delivering "Made in Switzerland" clamping systems to American customers.
Pascal Forrer, Head of Sales & Marketing for the REGO-FIX Group, underscores the strategic significance of the Center for Machining Excellence: «Indiana is the ideal location for us to showcase our technological innovations in the U.S. and deepen our connections with top experts and customers. The Midwest is also home to key U.S. industries, particularly in medical, aerospace, automotive, and defense manufacturing—industries that rely on the technical precision of Swiss manufacturers.»
Related Glossary Terms
- gang cutting ( milling)
gang cutting ( milling)
Machining with several cutters mounted on a single arbor, generally for simultaneous cutting.
- metrology
metrology
Science of measurement; the principles on which precision machining, quality control and inspection are based. See precision machining, measurement.
- milling
milling
Machining operation in which metal or other material is removed by applying power to a rotating cutter. In vertical milling, the cutting tool is mounted vertically on the spindle. In horizontal milling, the cutting tool is mounted horizontally, either directly on the spindle or on an arbor. Horizontal milling is further broken down into conventional milling, where the cutter rotates opposite the direction of feed, or “up” into the workpiece; and climb milling, where the cutter rotates in the direction of feed, or “down” into the workpiece. Milling operations include plane or surface milling, endmilling, facemilling, angle milling, form milling and profiling.
- turning
turning
Workpiece is held in a chuck, mounted on a face plate or secured between centers and rotated while a cutting tool, normally a single-point tool, is fed into it along its periphery or across its end or face. Takes the form of straight turning (cutting along the periphery of the workpiece); taper turning (creating a taper); step turning (turning different-size diameters on the same work); chamfering (beveling an edge or shoulder); facing (cutting on an end); turning threads (usually external but can be internal); roughing (high-volume metal removal); and finishing (final light cuts). Performed on lathes, turning centers, chucking machines, automatic screw machines and similar machines.
