For more than 70 years, the core competence of Gloor Brothers, an owner-managed family business based in Burgdorf, Switzerland has been the regulation of pressure and flow of technical gases. When the business earned its EN ISO: 13485 certification in 1994, this core competence was extended to medical technology.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for fittings in therapeutic oxygen delivery devices has risen sharply, resulting in a capacity bottleneck in the turning department at Gloor. Thanks to a long-standing collaboration between Gloor Medical and Tornos, both companies were able to react quickly and make valuable life-saving contributions.

In the 1990s, the management team at Gloor decided to purchase its first Tornos CNC machine, which is still in operation today for special fittings. Over time, five more Tornos single-spindle sliding-head lathes were added. These CNC machines play a major role in ensuring the manufacture of brass parts to the required quality.
Andreas Weyermann, head of manufacturing at Gloor

Brothers, is delighted with the recent arrival of a brand new Tornos EvoDECO 32, which was chosen for its precision and capabilities: “Our employees are trained at the Tornos Academy in Moutier. When they return from their courses, they have mastered the machine and its programs and can reach their full potential,” he says.

The Tornos machines run at full speed day and night.
“We still work in one shift, but the machines have a certain autonomy and run unattended for several hours overnight in the so-called ghost shift,” confirms Weyermann.

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