Alternative materials such as mineral casting (polymer concrete/EPUMENT) and ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC/EPUDUR) offer outstanding damping properties, low thermal conductivity, high isotropy, homogeneity, and resistance to media. They also allow for flexible shaping, chipless molding, and the use of innovative adhesive technologies.

Furthermore, by integrating sensors and actuators into machine beds and machine bed components made of alternative materials, so-called "intelligent machine structures" are manufactured. These include, among others, sensors for temperature measurements to detect interfering heat, as well as corresponding tempering lines to counteract this interfering heat.

Mineral casting developed and produced by RAMPF for machine beds and machine bed components stands out due to its resource-efficient production, as well as environmentally friendly disposal and recycling:

• EPUMENT mineral casting and EPUDUR ultra-high-performance concrete are cold-cast into molds made of wood, steel, or plastic. As a result, up to 4.5 times less primary energy is consumed in production compared to other materials used for machine beds and machine bed components.
• The high casting precision, combined with RAMPF’s in-house high-precision replication technology, eliminates the need to transport machine beds and machine bed components to external processors and reduces or avoids the use of machining tools.
• EPUMENT mineral casting and EPUDUR ultra-high-performance concrete consist of more than 90 percent naturally occurring minerals and stones, combined with an epoxy resin-based binder (EPUMENT) or a cement-based binder (EPUDUR). These materials can therefore be disposed of as standard construction waste.
• The crushing of mineral casting and ultra-high-performance concrete components into high-grade chippings using large-scale shredders, as well as the separation of embedded metal parts, has been successfully tested. High-grade chippings from mineral casting can be reused as recycled construction material in road and path construction, industrial building projects, landfill surface sealing, or landscaping.

Highly qualified staff are your dedicated development partner for customer-specific machine beds. High-performance 3D CAD systems are used to produce technically sophisticated and cost-efficient tailored solutions.