Engineering

Engineering deals with application-oriented technical development, construction as well as production engineering. In a time where almost any conceivable application already exists in numerous different product types, many companies focus on a consistent further development of existing procedures and constructions aiming at higher user-friendliness and comfort, additional application fields or an easier product utilisation.

• HEIERLING i-FLEX
  The HAWX ski boot model that has been internationally distributed by the ATOMIC group since 2007 is the provisional final outcome of a five-year success story in innovation management. In 2001, the well-known Swiss manufacturer Heierling founded together with the Munich-based Patentpool Innovations Management GmbH a company to develop the revolutionary i-flex ski-boot technology. The main differences to traditionally manufactured ski boots are the flexible shell and the energy spring that decouple the front exterior from the back part. The result: it allows the skier an upright, more natural stance in the ski boot that guarantees a direct transmission of power without energy loss reduces the stress on the body’s joints and generally prevents fatigue while skiing.
  

• OPEN SHUT END (OSE)
  The beverage industry had been looking for smart solutions for a reclosable can for years before the Frankish metal processing specialist Alexander Schley came up with a decisive idea for a revolution: the lids fit onto standard filling machines and produce 2 kilograms of pressure on the rotating lid.