COMPANIES

FRÄCON Verpackungs- & Fertigungstechnik GmbH was founded as a service company in 1993.

In addition to the two main areas, CNC contract manufacturing and the construction of vacuum packaging machines, the company continues to deal with construction, assembly production including assembly and tool and mold construction.

The family company now has 40 qualified employees.

Teamwork with short information channels and fast decision-making processes increase employee motivation and ensure efficient and lean production.

By moving into our new building in 2000 and adding the extension in 2009, we were able to steadily expand production to 1200 square meters. In 2017, an assembly hall of 700 square meters was added. Today we produce all kinds of workpieces for you with the most modern machining centers.

Our high level of quality, flexibility and, last but not least, an important adherence to delivery dates make our success possible, which is confirmed by our satisfied and loyal customer base.

We are a toolmaking and finished with a total of four employees since 1997 molds, measuring, Spann, and other devices, hydraulic control blocks, milling and turning parts for mechanical engineering, small series and initial samples.

We are a stable, Austrian contract manufacturer and convince by our ability and our performance in the area of starting hole and wire erosion.

Our customers in the global environment especially appreciate our flexibility, short lead times and our expertise in difficult jobs.


12 pcs water and wire EDM
3 pcs CNC-Hole EDM machines are disposal.

Wire EDM small parts - Micro parts (thin wire processing)
Wire cutting by oversized workpieces up to 500 mm height
Konik 50 ° per side to height 500 mm
Hole EDM of micro bores from Ø 0.25 mm
Hole EDM oversized workpieces up to 500 mm height

Core competences

«We cannot be the best in every aspect. Therefore, we have positioned ourselves at the top where our core competences lie.»

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM):
In 1969, we bought our first electrical discharge machine, which has been the foundation for our most important core capability. EDM very soon proved to be one of the promising new key technologies in metalworking. We have continually expanded our experience in die sinking and wire EDM and, these days, count ourselves amongst the leading contract manufacturers for precise metal machining. It is not the ten machines that we productively utilise every day that are getting us further, but the very high standards of our customers for surface quality and precision forming.
The advantages of EDM are: no mechanical stress to the metal piece, no limitations through hard metal grade or shape, high degree of machine autonomy, greater design possibilities at engineering level. Only an EDM-compatible design will profit from all EDM benefits – a piece of advice our customers will gladly follow.

Tungsten carbide working:
«It is the combination of knowledge of materials and knowledge of methods that form a basis for the skilled working of hard metal.»
We have managed to form a solid base to work tungsten carbide parts efficiently by liaising intensively with the outstanding tungsten carbide manufacturer Metzger Ltd, Lotzwil/Switzerland, and by meeting the very high standards of our customers. We support our customers when it comes to choosing the right hard metal and the most suitable methods such as grinding and abrasion, polishing and extrude-honing and also provide the handling during and after the production process.
Only perfectly manufactured hard metal parts will convince the customer to pay a higher unit price.

Laser Machining:
As with EDM, we decided early (1986) to go with this new key technology. We have been using the Nd:YAG pulsed laser (LASAG) for laser welding, cutting, drilling, marking and laser cladding. The high power pulse and high beam quality melt or vaporise nearly all known materials. Lasering is used to produce microstructures and to connect highly challenging geometrical shapes by conduction welding.

The same rules apply as for EDM: only a laser-compatible design will be able to take advantage of all the benefits laser technology has to offer.

Since 1978, Van Vlijmen has developed from a specialized tool shop to a complete supplier to industrial clients for both die-cutting tools and the production of parts for machine construction. This involves production ranging from single pieces to small series and from simple to very complex parts.

Our mission is clear: we strive to provide our customers with superior tools and parts that not only enable them to push the boundaries of possibility, but also to excel in their field and actively shape the future.

Plastics processing (injection molding, thermal molding, etc.) including printing (screen printing, offset, digital printing and metal construction