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In Memoriam Make It Better, Together

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Sieglinde Vollmer YCM Impuls 6
November 30, 1924 – January 29, 2025 Sinker EDM
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family, employing around 800 “descendants”
today. In 1962, one year after the death of her
father, Sieglinde Vollmer began undertaking
duties in the company. Thanks to her excellent
foreign language skills, she found her place at
VOLLMER in the export department. As early
as 1964, she assumed the role of Managing
Director alongside her brother Udo Vollmer,
and has played a crucial role in leading this
medium-sized mechanical engineering compa- EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine
ny to success since 1987. She came to know
and love the VOLLMER Group of companies,
which was the life’s work of her father. Her
multilingualism opened doors, her warmth
was often the start of long-standing business
relationships, and her expertise formed a solid
foundation for those relationships. As a strong
woman in the engineering industry, Sieglinde 5-Axis VMC
Sieglinde Vollmer, an Entrepreneur with Vollmer developed the traditional company into YCM RX65
Sense and Compassion, Passes Away at a technological leader for grinding and eroding machines.
the Age of 100 The company became her family. And the feeling
was mutual among the employees of VOLLMER. EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine
The VOLLMER Group mourns the loss of Sieglinde With her humor, warmth, open-mindedness, curiosity
Vollmer. The warm-hearted entrepreneur, Supervisory and expertise, Sieglinde Vollmer looked after her
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Board Member of the VOLLMER Group, and trustee company and its employees. In 2003, she handed over The YCM RX65, 5-Axis VMC delivers the speed, tool capacity, and he YCM RX65, 5-Axis VMC delivers the speed, tool capacity, and
of the Sieglinde Vollmer Foundation, passed away on the operational management of the company to the machining envelope to square mold blocks and drill waterlines. Its
January 29th, 2025 at the age of 100. As the daughter subsequent managing directors, but remained closely rigidity makes it great for roughing applications, and its accuracy turns
of company founder Heinrich Vollmer, she steered the associated with the company as a member of the
fortunes of the company for decades and played a key Supervisory Board. out exceptional nish work, including cutting geometry that previously
role in shaping it. In a male dominated industry, she had would have needed to be burned. When combined with our precision
a powerful impact and became an inspiring personality “It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to sinker and wire EDM solutions, mold shops get the exibility and See how Zero
in the mechanical engineering industry. With her death, Sieglinde Vollmer, whose courage and vision made Tolerance
VOLLMER has lost a true trailblazer who developed the VOLLMER a technology leader,” writes Martin Kapp, performance they need to do more–faster. in Michigan
traditional company into a technology leader for grinding Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the VOLLMER • Reduce setups reduced mold
and erosion machines. Her legacy will live on far beyond Group. “Our beloved Fräulein was an entrepreneur EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine EDM Today Magazine
production
the boundaries of the company. through and through, a veritable virtuoso, whose excel- • Increase capacity time by 25%.
lence was unmatched. We will continue her life’s work.” • Improve throughput
An entrepreneur with sense and compassion – a heart
for the company EDM Today offers condolences to the Vollmer family and The YCM Alliance brings together the very best machine tools and solution experts to help you grow your business.
to the many employees who will miss her and mourn her
She bore the title “Fräulein” (“Miss” in English) proudly loss. Clearly she was an extraordinary woman who has
her entire life, and instead of becoming a wife and contributed much to our industry.
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mother, things turned out differently than originally
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planned. The company was to become her second Milling, Turning Ultra-High-Speed Milling Portal Milling Grinding Solutions Deep Hole Drilling Spotting Presses
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