The South West Hungarian Engineering Cluster was established in March 2011 thus providing an organizational back ground to support coordinated action and implementation of development ideas, the determining engineering organization of the region.
The Cluster that is authorized to use Accredited Cluster title, owner of the European Cluster Excellence Initiative Silver Label is the biggest organization of this type in the region both in respect of revenues (more than 500 M EUR) and size of the Cluster members with 6000 employees.
At present, the cluster consists of 49 members from the South West Hungarian region having the following major objectives:
Business Development:
- Market-based collaboration
- Strengthening the cluster internal market, common capacity utilization
- Joint procurement of energy, services and materials and others
- Dynamizing the innovative activity, developing common products
Training Development:
- Developing vocational training and dual tertiary education in mechanical engineering
Representation of interest, marketing, networking:
- Establishing common, powerful lobby activity
- Sectoral and cluster networking, establishment of professional collaborations
- Operating the platform for experience and information exchange
- Sectoral and cluster networking, establishment of professional collaborations
- Common domestic and international presence and representation
Cluster members have a highly heterogeneous, specialised activity range if compared to each other they represent a different market segments.
Beside others the following products and services can be obtained from the cluster members:
- Water jet cutting
- Installation and maintenance of complete technological mechanical system, high pressure water technology
- Manufacture of components produced with cutting
- Manufacture of engine, generator houses and ventilators
- Design, manufacture and on site installation of electric automation devices
- Automation of industrial manufacturing technologies and facilities: electric and mechanical design, machine manufacturing, installation, commissioning, programming (PLC, robot), remote control.
- Development, design and production of electronic controllers and devices.
- Manufacture and maintenance of aluminium silo vehicles
- Design, manufacture, processing and commissioning cutting technology of poultry and meat processing plants
- Manufacture and recondition of superstructure of communal vehicles including hydraulic equipment and machine service
- Distribution of welding materials, welding machines and industrial machines
- Manufacture of custom-tailored steel structures, machinery components, and construction fitter products
- Design, instalment and maintenance of complex HVAC systems, heat pumps
- Manufacturing of mechanical safety products and devices
- Trainings, custom-tailored solutions in R&D engineering services, innovations services, trade developments, cluster-development and management
- Special alloy steels and tool materials trade, production and sale of mould bases, engineering and production of pre-and furtherfabricated tool plates
- Manufacture of high quality, environmental eco stove, fireplace and firebox
- Gear manufacturing, producing geared parts and machining
- Development and installation of air conditioning and ventilation technology equipment, industrial clean room technologies, moist-controlled food storages, ventilation of low plate count rooms and surgery rooms
- General HVAC and plumbing services: ventilation, industrial cooling, VRV / VRF, boiler houses, energy supply systems and stainless-steel piping systems
- Designing, prefabrication of building engineering piping systems, sprinkler fire extinguisher systems, boiler rooms, heating and cooling centers and mechanical spaces, 3D laser scanning, BIM 3D design
- Plastic part production, multi component injection molding, cable over molding, cable processing
- Plastic product manufacturing, laser welding, laser engraving
- Design and manufacture of standard or custom-made cutting tools from tungsten carbide and high speed steel, re-sharpening, maintenance and coating of all kind of cutting tools
- Hot-dip zinc planting, production of hot-dip zinc plated connecting elements, electroplating, powder coating, painting with traditional process
- Steel casting in unique and small series, manual and mechanical bentonite sad casting and shell injection molding
- Production and distribution of communal and road maintenance equipments, mounted on tractors and tool carriers such as flail mowers, sweepers, washing equipments, branch cutters, snow ploughs, salt spreaders, floating workboats
- Manufacture of low and medium voltage electrical appliances, equipments.
- Manufacture of sliding ring housings, fan cranes, crane elements, bearing plates, press plates, robotic stands, robotic arms, quick coupling heads, assembly units on the ground and the production of chain conveyors and machines
- Manufacture of packaging machinery
- Design, manufacture, installation, commissioning, maintenance, remote monitoring, operation, supply of spare parts and chemicals for drinking water, industrial process water and industrial waste water treatment systems.