Another further design award for the UNIQ hydraulic chucks from MAPAL

They not only meet the highest demands in terms of quality and quality and function, but their design has also won numerous awards: the hydraulic chucks for the UNIQ series from MAPAL. Following the IF Design Award 2020 and the Good Design Award 2021, the Aalen-based tool manufacturer at least received the sustainability-oriented Green Design Award in 2024.

When the precision tool manufacturer and technology partner MAPAL completely revised its hydraulic chucks in 2020, the focus was on making the entire to make the entire product range even more efficient and durable in daily use. in daily use. The new hydraulic chucks were to be given a uniform appearance - the requirement that the design should guarantee the greatest possible stability with optimum use of resources.

In collaboration with the design agency Ottenwaelder and Ottenwaelder from Schwaebisch Gmuend, the product managers at MAPAL developed a new design new design concept for the product family. In order to emphasize the uniqueness of the revised chucks, the naming was based on the English word “unique”.

The two hydraulic chuck series - UNIQ Mill Chuck and UNIQ DReaM Chuck - combine MAPAL's performance promise of quality and function quality and function, in particular through an optimum interplay of geometric and functional properties. Thanks to a polishing process newly developed for the UNIQ series the high-gloss surface of the chuck is more resistant to dirt and corrosion. more resistant to dirt and corrosion. MAPAL also attached great importance to making the use of the hydraulic chucks process reliability. The blue coloring of the of the actuating screw contributes to this. Specially created signatures also contain handling instructions. “The MAPAL chucks have a significantly unique design language,” says Petra Kurz-Ottenwaelder, Managing Director of the design agency Ottenwaelder and Ottenwaelder.

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