26.02.2025

Another design award for the UNIQ hydraulic chucks

MAPAL receives sustainable Green Design Award

Another award for the hydraulic chucks of the UNIQ series from MAPAL. Following the iF Design Award and the Good Design Award, the tool manufacturer from Aalen has now also received the Green Design Award.

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The picture shows the hydraulic chucks from the UNIQ series.
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    Already triple award-winning - the UNIQ hydraulic chucks from MAPAL. Most recently, they were honoured with the Green Design-Award for sustainable design. ©MAPAL 

  • The picture shows the blue actuating screw of the UNIQ chuck.
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    A special design element on the UNIQ chuck is the blue actuating screw. ©MAPAL 

  • The picture shows a UNIQ chuck in real-time operation
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    The Tritan drill clamped in the UNIQ chuck when machining steel. ©MAPAL 

  • The picture shows another UNIQ chuck during machining.
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    Drilling in titanium, supported by the UNIQ hydraulic chuck ©MAPAL 

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 Ottenwälder und Ottenwälder from Schwäbisch Gmünd, 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 chucks, the naming was based on the English word “unique”.
 

The picture shows the hydraulic chucks from the UNIQ series.
Already triple award-winning - the UNIQ hydraulic chucks from MAPAL. Most recently, they were honoured with the Green Design-Award for sustainable design.   ©MAPAL

Green Good Design Award honors sustainable design ideas

The latest award for MAPAL and the Gmünd-based agency Ottenwälder und Ottenwälder is the Green Good Design Award, which the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design presents annually to companies and individuals who pay particular attention to sustainable design. The two companies were honored for the new design of the UNIQ hydraulic chuck. 
The picture shows the blue actuating screw of the UNIQ chuck.
A special design element on the UNIQ chuck is the blue actuating screw.   ©MAPAL

What makes the UNIQ series particularly sustainable

A hydraulic chuck is suitable for reconditioning. If the hydraulic oil is refilled during servicing, the chuck is as good as new and ready for a second service life. A UNIQ hydraulic chuck can handle up to 15,000 clamping cycles, which is well above the average value of a shrink fit chuck.

Shrink fit chucks are energy guzzlers, consuming up to 12,000 kilowatt hours and 3.6 tons of CO2 per year. This is saved by using a UNIQ hydraulic chuck.

In addition, a hydraulic chuck can be changed much more quickly. Shrink fit chucks take between four and six minutes longer, which adds up over time.
Hydraulic chucks are also much safer to handle. With shrink chucks, almost every operator burns their fingers at least once during the hectic working day. With hydraulic chucks, on the other hand, there is no risk of burns.
 

UNIQ Mill Chuck: Reliable. Dynamic. Agile

The UNIQ Mill Chuck is specially designed for clamping milling tools with HA shanks. Thanks to its high temperature resistance of 80 °C, even with very long milling cycles, it impresses in highly dynamic milling applications, such as SPM (Structural Part Machining), HSC (High Speed Cutting) or HPC (High Performance Cutting), for high-quality components with excellent process reliability and high metal removal rates.  It is universally suitable for roughing, semi-finishing and finishing operations.

UNIQ DReaM Chuck, 4.5°: Visionary. Flexible. Economical.

The UNIQ DReaM Chuck, 4.5° is optimized for reaming and drilling applications as well as for use with finishing cutters. It enables maximum rigidity with minimum interference contour thanks to the clamping introduction in the HSK collar and low material usage. The outer contour of the UNIQ DReaM chuck is based one-to-one on DIN 69882-8 for heat shrink chucks. This makes it very easy to switch from shrink-fit technology to hydraulic chucks.

Further information on UNIQ chucks
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Contact

Mathias Ostertag Public Relations mathias.ostertag@mapal.com Phone: +49 7361 585 3566

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