30.06.2026

MAPAL provides an insight into its financial year, markets and innovations

Dr Jochen Kress reflects on a challenging financial year and looks to the future

This year’s MAPAL Group press conference, held on 25 June 2026 at the company’s headquarters in Aalen, attracted a great deal of interest. More than 20 trade journalists from the DACH region, as well as representatives of the local press, attended to find out about the latest developments and the company’s progress.

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    Dr. Dirk Sellmer, Senior Director Research & Development, presented the innovations and solutions for 2027 to the attending journalists. 

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    The tour of MAPAL’s research and development centre once again attracted a great deal of interest. Here, Thomas Teuber explains the new EA Performance System to journalists. ©MAPAL 

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    Markus Deininger (left) from MAPAL and Dr Markus Friedrich (ZOLLER, on the right in the photo) told the journalists about the successful collaboration between the two companies. ©MAPAL 

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    Dr Jochen Kress in conversation with journalists  

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    The journalists also received first-hand information from the product managers present. ©MAPAL 

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    Markus Deininger (left) from MAPAL and Dr Markus Friedrich (ZOLLER, on the right) in conversation with Kerstin Schwantes (R&D). ©MAPAL 
The event centred on the report by Managing Director Dr Jochen Kress. He assessed the past financial year 2025 against the backdrop of a market environment that remained dynamic, outlined key areas of focus in the company’s development, and provided an outlook for the current financial year 2026.
Michael Kucher, Component Manager for E-Mobility, used examples from the various market segments to demonstrate how MAPAL, as a solutions provider, boosts manufacturing productivity through innovative solutions. Specific examples included the precision machining of stator housings using a six-slider cutting tool, new cutting materials and tool designs for the hard machining of constant velocity joints, and a completely new drill bit for machining carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP).
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The tour of MAPAL’s research and development centre once again attracted a great deal of interest. Here, Thomas Teuber explains the new EA Performance System to journalists.  ©MAPAL

Thomas Teuber, Product Manager for Fine Boring & Reaming, then presented the EA Performance System, one of MAPAL’s most important new products for 2026/2027. The system offers a wide range of applications for machining diameters from 10 to 19 mm and contributes to high productivity in series production.

Dr Dirk Sellmer, Senior Director of Research & Development, provided a detailed overview of the innovations and further developments at the AMB in Stuttgart. Following this, live machining demonstrations and an exhibition of the solutions presented offered the opportunity for in-depth discussions with experts from research and development, as well as product and segment management.

In the afternoon, Stephan Köstler, Senior Director of Product & Service Management, discussed the practical implementation of complete turnkey solutions. Using a specific project as an example, he demonstrated how MAPAL implements turnkey solutions step by step – from design through to series production – and successfully transitions comprehensive projects into stable production within a short timeframe.

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Markus Deininger (left) from MAPAL and Dr Markus Friedrich (ZOLLER, on the right in the photo) told the journalists about the successful collaboration between the two companies.  ©MAPAL

The day concluded with a presentation by Markus Deininger (MAPAL) and Dr Markus Friedrich (ZOLLER), who demonstrated how the increasing complexity of machining can be managed using data-driven approaches. The focus was on the aim of systematically utilising existing process and tool data and combining it with specific expertise to derive concrete, application-specific cutting parameter recommendations. The joint PRODaaS@Scale project highlights how AI can be used to determine cutting parameters more precisely and stabilise processes more quickly.

The face-to-face discussions with the journalists provided valuable insights and highlighted the importance of open dialogue on the future of manufacturing.

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Mathias Ostertag Public Relations mathias.ostertag@mapal.com Phone: +49 7361 585 3566

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