News

Hallberg-Rassy has just invested in another completely new five axis CNC milling machine. This investment is around 250 000 Euros. 

Hallberg-Rassy belongs to the pioneers when it comes to the use of CNC controlled routers for cutting wood in the marine business. Back in 1987 the first CNC machine was put into operation at the yard. Parts could be precision cut optimizing waste to a degree previously unknown. Today Hallberg-Rassy is using the fifth generation of CNC routers.

What Hallberg-Rassy pioneered in the marine business, even before the world’s largest pleasure boat producers, was to use vacuum to hold the pieces that were going to be cut out. That means that only the tools have to be measured in, there is no longer any need to adapt for each shape to be cut out. This makes the arrangement so suitable for boat building, where the number of shapes can be several thousands, but the number of units cut out each time are rarely more than ten.

Today Hallberg-Rassy has three CNC routers; two five axis for three dimensional shapes, and one three axis for two dimensional shapes. Normally wood is cut out with the routers, but also acrylic glass, Corian, aluminium and PUR paste for milling plugs.