Global HERMLE team unites for landmark Chicago showcase featuring a massive demo piece, a brand-new mill-turn machine, and two automated production cells
Chicago, IL – HERMLE announced its plans for IMTS 2026, the International Manufacturing Technology Show, taking place September 14–19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. This year, HERMLE is going bigger than ever — literally and figuratively — with a five-machine display anchored by the company's largest machine ever built, the C 62 U MT, and the debut of an all-new 5-axis mill-turn platform, the C 22 U MT.
The showing marks the largest HERMLE presence in company history at a North American trade show, reflecting nearly 90 years of German precision engineering and the company's growing footprint across aerospace, medical, defense, and job shop manufacturing in the United States.
"GO BIG is more than a theme for us this year — it's a statement about where HERMLE is headed," said Gunther Schnitzer, President and CEO of Hermle USA, Inc. "We're bringing our largest machine, our newest machine, our most advanced automation, and a demo piece the manufacturing world has never seen before. IMTS 2026 is where our German engineering heritage and our North American growth come together on one floor."
The C 62 U MT: HERMLE's Largest Machine, On Display for the First Time
For the first time in its history, HERMLE will showcase the C 62 U MT, its largest 5-axis mill-turn machining center, at a North American trade show. The C 62 U MT is engineered for large-format, high-precision components, expanding HERMLE's capability into a new class of part sizes for customers.
Live on the show floor, the C 62 U MT will machine a brand-new demo piece unlike anything previously produced at a HERMLE exhibit — a component designed specifically to demonstrate the scale, complexity, and precision achievable on the company's flagship platform. The piece will remain undisclosed until the show opens.
To build excitement around the reveal, HERMLE will run a daily social media giveaway throughout IMTS: each day, the first 50 attendees who post a photo with the C 62 U MT demo piece on will receive a HERMLE T-shirt, on-site.
A New Machine Platform: The C 22 U MT
HERMLE will also unveil the C 22 U MT, a new addition to its 5-axis product line that builds on the proven C 22 U platform with integrated mill-turning capability. The new model gives manufacturers greater process consolidation — combining milling and turning operations in a single setup — and reinforces HERMLE's ongoing investment in expanding its GEN2 5-axis lineup to meet increasingly complex part geometries in medical, aerospace, and precision job shop work.
Automation on Display: Two Fully Integrated Cells
Rounding out the machine lineup, HERMLE will present two automated manufacturing cells built for lights-out, high-mix production:
• C 250 with HS flex hybrid — a flexible automation solution designed to maximize spindle utilization and adapt to varying batch sizes and part families.
• C 12 with RS 05-2 — a compact automated cell pairing HERMLE's C 12 machining center with a robotic system built for efficient, unattended part handling.
Together, the cells demonstrate HERMLE's end-to-end approach to automation — engineering machines and automation as a single, integrated system rather than an add-on.
HERMLE Metal Power Application (MPA): Additive Manufacturing on Display
HERMLE's Metal Power Application (MPA) team will have a dedicated display of additively manufactured parts and the latest developments in HERMLE's metal additive technology. The MPA showcase will highlight how HERMLE's additive and hybrid manufacturing solutions enable new part designs and efficiencies - specifically consolidating combustion chamber production operations, innovating injection molding processes, and transforming the rapid prototyping of semiconductor production.
One Global Team
Reflecting HERMLE's identity as a single global manufacturer rather than a collection of regional operations, the IMTS 2026 booth will be staffed by HERMLE team members from the United States, Mexico, Canada, and Germany. Attendees will have direct access to application engineers, sales leaders, and technical experts from across HERMLE's global network — a unified team representing one standard of German precision manufacturing, delivered locally across North America.
About HERMLE USA, Inc.: HERMLE USA, Inc. located in Franklin, WI, is the North American headquarters of Maschinenfabrik Berthold HERMLE AG located in Gosheim, Germany. Since 1987, the firm has provided North America's leading manufacturers with the finest high-precision 5-axis machines, automation solutions, applications assistance, customer training, and service.
For more information visit www.hermleusa.net.
