Abstract: An apparatus for machining composite-material workpieces containing metal and non-metal has at least one machine which is used to machine the composite-material workpieces and which isolates shavings containing metal and non-metal or isolates other particles, and a suction and cleaning device for air contaminated with such particles. The suction and cleaning device has a fan and, arranged in fluidic sequence for multi-stage cleaning of the contaminated air, a cyclone separation stage, at least two mechanical filter stages and an activated carbon filter stage. The cyclone separation stage has a packet of at least three, preferably at least six, individual cyclones fluidically connected in parallel, which are arranged around a feed which supplies them via a distribution star. The individual cyclones have upwardly directed outlets for cleaned air; and above the outlets of the individual cyclones, a first of the mechanical filter stages is arranged engaging around the allocated feed.

Abstract: A radial press is provided for the radial deformation of a workpiece centrically to a pressing axis, having two yokes and a pressing tool that comprises a pressing jaw set received in a tool installation space defined between the yokes with pressing jaws arranged concentrically round the pressing axis, wherein both yokes are movable relative to one another by means of a drive system along a drive axis arranged perpendicularly to the pressing axis and the spacing of the pressing jaws from the pressing axis depends on the position of the two yokes relative to one another.

Abstract: A fluidic forming press is provided, comprising a frame structure, a movable first tool carrier, a movable second tool carrier, a drive system, and a press controller that controls the drive system. A first drive unit associated with the first tool carrier is designed as a fast-stroke unit, the first tool carrier can be mechanically locked in the closed position thereof in relation to the frame structure by means of at least one position-changeable locking body, at least one piston-cylinder unit associated with the second tool carrier is designed as a high-pressure unit at least for part of the motion of the second tool carrier in the direction of the first tool carrier, and a fluidic pressure booster is integrated into a feed line that connects the high-pressure unit to the associated pressure fluid unit.

Abstract: A fluidic forming press is provided, comprising a frame structure, a movable first tool carrier, a movable second tool carrier, a drive system, and a press controller that controls the drive system. A first drive unit associated with the first tool carrier is designed as a fast-stroke unit, the first tool carrier can be mechanically locked in the closed position thereof in relation to the frame structure by means of at least one position-changeable locking body, at least one piston-cylinder unit associated with the second tool carrier is designed as a high-pressure unit at least for part of the motion of the second tool carrier in the direction of the first tool carrier, and a fluidic pressure booster is integrated into a feed line that connects the high-pressure unit to the associated pressure fluid unit.