Dormer Pramet's Experience Center is a major investment by the company that aims to provide expertise, training, research and development and equipment to further increase the scope and performance of its wide assortment of cutting tools. 

The Experience Center, or XP Center for short, is located at Dormer Pramet's indexable production unit (PU) in Šumperk, Czech Republic.

It was officially opened at a special ceremony with Klas Forsström, Sandvik Machining Solutions (SMS) president, Stefan Steenstrup, Dormer Pramet President, Marek Kotrlý, MD and Production Manager Dormer Pramet and Zdenek Broz, Mayor of Šumperk, performing the ribbon cutting.

At the opening Klas Forsström, SMS President, said: "We often talk about R&D, application development, proximity to the customer and that is very much what this center represents. This is the future of our industry, to interact with our customers and at the same time, bring it in to our own production, so this facility is very important."

Stefan Steenstrup, Dormer Pramet President, added: "Šumperk is a very important location for Dormer Pramet and the ideal place for our XP Center. More than 600 of our 1,400 employees are based there and around 40 percent of everything we sell is manufactured there.

"The XP Center is, though, very much a global facility and will be a focal point for a number of activities. It will help us to expand our knowledge in order to develop new solutions for our customers.

"We are very focused on certain areas of the market and have a unique position in numerous industry sectors, including railway and heavy machining. In order to keep that unique position, we need to continue to develop these areas in the future, along with our broad customer offer across all segments."

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