David Erath

SMW-AUTOBLOK is a global corporate group in the workholding industry since 1942 from the foundation of Autoblok SpA in Italy, the largest power chuck manufacturer in Europe. In the 1970s the company established AUTOBLOK France, UK and Germany. In 1990s Autoblok SpA established AUTOBLOK USA, AUTOBLOK Japan and acquired SMW of Germany. The combination of these premier manufacturing entities created the SMW-AUTOBLOK group and resulted in the most extensive product line of high quality workholding for clamping technology and gripping systems on machine tools in the world. SMW AUTOBLOK customers are ensured a consistent, single source of superior product performance, support and service of power chucks, manual chucks, static chucks, stationary workholding, special jaw chuck customization, cylinders and steady rests. Our production facilities are in Caprie-Italy, Meckenbeuren-Germany, Wheeling IL-USA, Shanghai-China and Pune-India. The global corporate organization SMW Autoblok achieved sustained global growth by providing a superior level of customer service and technical support for our application driven product line. Now our group is a global corporate established in China, India, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Taiwan and Czech Republic. With the addition of Mario Pinto and OML the group is now unmatched worldwide.