Querétaro · Mexico — EKIN Group since 1963
We design and build advanced broaching and rolling machines and tools for the automotive, aerospace and energy industries. Now with direct support from Querétaro, Mexico.
01 — Business
By trusting people, we have become a leading manufacturer of broaching and rolling machines and tools for high-precision splines, gears and threads. We work with the most technologically demanding companies.
With five own facilities on three continents — Amorebieta and Lemoa (Bizkaia, Spain), Gurgaon (India) and Querétaro (Mexico) — plus a joint venture in Milan, EKIN has a team of 360 people.
“Thinking together means believing in people, generating ideas and making decisions together.”
1963
Founded
5
Own facilities
3
Continents
360
People
— Why EKIN
In-house heat treatment, a highly specialized technical service and strategic collaboration with technology centers make us unique, allowing us to offer a complete solution for the whole sector's needs.
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Vacuum furnaces
6
Tempering furnaces
+1,400 m²
Heat treatment plant in Lemoa
With two vacuum furnaces and six tempering furnaces across more than 1,400 m² at its Lemoa facility, EKIN runs the only heat treatment plant in Spain for large broaches. Keeping this process within the group gives it full independence from external suppliers. It works with a wide range of high-speed steels, both rolled and powder-metallurgy, for machining, hardening and tempering flat and round tools.
The Engineering department brings the “Thinking together” motto to life, joining supplier and customer with added value. EKIN offers not just products but engineering for any development related to its customers' activity, analyzing their requirements and contributing decades of experience. Its teams also travel to customer sites to ensure requirements are met and quality is controlled.
EKIN carries out its own and collaborative R&D&I, supported by local and international technology development programs with universities such as Mondragon Unibertsitatea and the University of the Basque Country (EHU). It also works with technology centers such as Ideko and CEIT on specific innovation projects.
One of EKIN's key competitive advantages is its integrated offering: it covers every aspect of broaching and cold rolling, fields in which it is a world leader in high-precision tools and machinery. It provides engineering, tool and machine manufacturing, sharpening and technical assistance.
02 — Services
A complete offering: broaching and rolling operations, tool resharpening and regeneration, and technical assistance for EKIN and other brands' products.
01Broaching serviceBroaching
EKIN also offers its customers broaching operations, guaranteeing the highest standards of precision and quality on the market. Broaching is the linear, progressive removal of chips from a part by an ordered succession of cutting edges. Originally used to machine internal grooves, the technique soon extended to other surfaces and shapes. Internal, external, blind or tube broaching brings simplicity, speed, high productivity, low cost per part and great precision and process stability. EKIN also excels at broach sharpening, extending tool life and profitability.
02Cold rollingCold rolling
EKIN's leadership also covers cold rolling, a forming process that produces the desired splines on a part held between centers by taking advantage of the plastic properties of steel. It stands out for its high productivity, the strength of the machined shafts and the absence of chips. EKIN is at the forefront of rolling machine design and manufacturing, and can also repair, modify, convert and renew this equipment, whatever its brand or type.
03Tool resharpeningResharpening
The sharpening service for EKIN products achieves performance well above the market average, thanks to the experience and specialization gained over more than five decades of activity. We sharpen flat and round broaches, helical broaches and fir-tree broaches.
04Tool regenerationRegeneration
One of EKIN's specialties is regenerating rolling racks, both those made in its own facilities and those of other brands, so they can be reused for the same improved application or a different one. Rack regeneration: we bring worn spline and thread rolling racks back into service.
05Technical Assistance ServiceTechnical service
EKIN provides a comprehensive technical assistance service, as well as sharpening, broaching and regeneration operations for its own products and others in the sector, across five continents, for automotive, aerospace, power generation and capital goods companies. The service covers all products, under warranty or not: part replacement, repairs, overhauls and more. EKIN also specializes in retrofitting machinery, its own or from other brands.
EKIN also offers its customers broaching operations, guaranteeing the highest standards of precision and quality on the market. Broaching is the linear, progressive removal of chips from a part by an ordered succession of cutting edges. Originally used to machine internal grooves, the technique soon extended to other surfaces and shapes. Internal, external, blind or tube broaching brings simplicity, speed, high productivity, low cost per part and great precision and process stability. EKIN also excels at broach sharpening, extending tool life and profitability.
03 — Machines
We design and build advanced broaching machines and rolling machines: internal broaching, external broaching of steering racks and calipers, and rolling, both hydraulic and electromechanical.
Internal broachingElectromechanical internal broaching machine with table up
Vertical electromechanical internal broaching machine of the “table up” type: two servomotors push the main slide with the part along the stationary broach. Work stations sit about 960 mm above the floor, so no pit is needed, and it integrates easily into a machining cell. No hydraulic unit: smaller footprint, better energy efficiency, lower noise and no hydraulic oil waste. A symmetric double drive on the same axis avoids torque and internal stresses.
Mechanical
Electrical
Fluids
04 — Tools
At EKIN we specialize in manufacturing internal, external and special broaching tools, as well as cold rolling tools.
01Internal broaching
Hard broaching tools with carbide broaching bushings and bolted inserts, for high-precision splining of hardened parts.
02Internal broaching
Helical broaches for internal splining of gears and transmission components for automotive and aerospace.
03Internal broaching
Straight broaches for splines, keyways and keyseats, made to order in one piece or in segments.
04Special broaching
Special broaching tools, such as fir-tree broaches for turbine discs and aerospace broaches.
05Cold rolling
Rolling racks for cold rolling of splines and threads. We also regenerate our own and other brands' racks.
06Cold rolling
Thread rolling dies for rolling threads with consistent finish and accuracy on every part.
07Cold rolling
Tools for rolling lubrication grooves (grease grooves) on shafts and components.
05 — Industries
Gears, splines and threads for powertrain and transmission.
Broaching of turbine discs and critical components.
Solutions for power generation and transmission components.
06 — Mexico office
Local support in your time zone, backed by the engineering of the EKIN Group.
Address
Phone
Hours
Bilbao Spain, India and Querétaro
07 — Contact
Tell us about your project and an EKIN México specialist will get back to you shortly.