Press Release
Constructive cooperation for top design
TRUMPF manufactures Tom Dixon products “live” at
the Milan Furniture Fair
TRUMPF Group
Press/Public Relations
TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG
Johann-Maus-Straße 2
71254 Ditzingen
Germany
Heidi-Melanie Maier
+49 7156 303-31720
heidi.maier@de.trumpf.com
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Ditzingen/Milan, April 16, 2012 – British designer Tom Dixon has
joined forces with TRUMPF, a German mechanical engineering
company and specialist in laser technology, to give birth to an
extraordinary design project. Dixon has drafted different products
made from sheet metal for Design Week (April 17 to 22, 2012).
These are fabricated on TRUMPF machines during the run of the
fair. What’s so very special here is that the machines are not
located in a factory, but will be set up in Milan’s Museum of
Science and Technology. Tom Dixon is thus turning the museum
into the “MOST Design Salon”, an epicenter for new design, food,
culture and technology for Milan Design Week.
“MOST turns the National Museum of Science and Technology
Milan into an ambitious environment for innovation and culture.
We can even demonstrate the manufacturing process, with
assistance by TRUMPF, and that has a very special allure,” as
the famed designer stated. Machine operators and sales
personnel from TRUMPF Homberger s.r.l., TRUMPF’s Italian
subsidiary, located near Milan, will be on hand in the museum
during the six days of the fair. They will manufacture a shade
called Stamp Lamp and a prototype chair, reminiscent of the
hood for the legendary Citroën 2CV automobile. The chair is
fabricated on the TruPunch 3000 and the TruBend 5130. Stamp
Lamp is a flat-packed shade, made from the wasted sheet metal
used to create the chair. Lamp and chair are manufactured from
galvanized mild steel, 1 millimeter thick.
The preparations for this unusual project took four months. Tom
Dixon sought best-of-class manufacturing for his design ideas –
and was looking for support while optimizing the engineering
Press Release
TRUMPF Group
Press/Public Relations
Heidi-Melanie Maier
+49 7156 303-31720
heidi.maier@de.trumpf.com
Constructive cooperation for top design
design. “It is only rarely that we encounter such an exceptional
task,” noted Paolo Musante, Managing Director for TRUMPF in
Italy. “But ultimately our machines are ideal for the kinds of
stringent demands that are quite normal when we work with
contemporary design. Our experts approached the task with
superb commitment.”
Those who are interested in visiting this highly unusual Digital
Industrial Revolution “can do so until April 22, 2012, at the
Museum of Science and Technology. The museum’s Railway
Building, full scale replica of a 19th Century railway station
provides a fitting setting. There will also be a second opportunity
to see this design project. That will be at the LAMIERA, the
Italian machine tools fair, taking place in Bologna from May 9 to
12, 2012. TRUMPF will be showing this project once again there,
at its booth B08/C07 in Hall 30.
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Chair.jpg
The design of the Tom Dixon Chair
is reminiscent of the hood for the
legendary Citroën 2CV automobile.
Chair_Detail.jpg
A TruPunch 3000 and a TruBend
5130 are used to manufacture the
chair.
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Press Release
TRUMPF Group
Press/Public Relations
Heidi-Melanie Maier
+49 7156 303-31720
heidi.maier@de.trumpf.com
Constructive cooperation for top design
Stamp_Lamp_flat.jpg
The „Stamp Lamp“ as produced by
the punching machine TruPunch
3000. It will be manufactured over
500 times during the six show days.
Stamp-Lamp.jpg
Due to its detailed punch holes, the
stamp lamp creates an interesting
shadow play.
About TRUMPF
With sales totaling € 2.024 billion and 8,550 employees, the TRUMPF
Group ranks among the leading manufacturing companies worldwide.
The three following business divisions are combined under the umbrella
of a holding company: Machine Tools/Power Tools, Laser
Technology/Electronics and Medical Technology. Its core business is
machine tools for flexible sheet metal processing for punching and
forming, laser processing and bending. In the field of industrial lasers
and laser systems, the company is the technological leader in the world
market. With about 60 subsidiaries and branch offices, the Group is
represented in almost every European country, in North and South
America as well as in Asia. Production locations can be found in
Germany, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Great Britain,
Japan, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland, Singapore and the USA.
For further information about the company, please visit
www.trumpf.com
About Tom Dixon
Established in 2002, Tom Dixon is a British design and manufacturing
company of lighting and furniture. Obsessed with honest materials, and
a commitment to innovative design and manufacture, Tom Dixon is on a
self-propelled mission to rethink and revive the British Furniture
Industry. In 2004 Proventus, the Swedish-based private investment
company, teamed up with Tom Dixon to establish Design Research, a
design and product development holding company. Tom Dixon
launches new collections annually at the Milan international furniture fair
and product is sold across 63 countries.
www.tomdixon.net
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