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Presentation<br />
REACHING EL DORADO…<br />
To round off the technical article on managing tool life (page 40), decomagazine met up with Marc and<br />
Jacques Rossé, Directors at Essor in Court who have recently started using this system on their machines.<br />
Rendezvous with those living the bar turning adventure with a passion.<br />
Its “classical” and “somewhat austere” presenting front conceals a genuine passion for excellence.<br />
The Swiss Silicon Valley<br />
The company located in Court, in the French-speaking<br />
canton of Berne is an SME that goes back nearly<br />
one hundred years. As soon as you are on the premises<br />
you can feel the history, but not in an old, dusty<br />
way! The company benefits from this expertise as it<br />
launches itself into the future.<br />
In the El Dorado of bar turning, a clear vision lights<br />
up the way.<br />
The duo in charge of the company today is Jacques<br />
Rossé, Technical Director and Marc Rossé Sales<br />
Director. When asked about the passion that seems<br />
to be their driving force (and which is easy to see on<br />
their Internet site www.essor.ch), they reply and their<br />
attitude is proof that bar turning is the finest job in<br />
the world…<br />
For many, it has represented a sort of El Dorado. Just<br />
like Silicon Valley in information technology, the valley<br />
of Court has seen many companies grow.<br />
Fortunes have been made in the space of a few years<br />
and many companies have also disappeared.<br />
Bar turning, of course, has represented and still represents<br />
a high-potential sector open to motivated<br />
entrepreneurs. But just like when El Dorado was<br />
discovered, one must be wary of what looks like<br />
treasure!<br />
The secret: passion!<br />
Indeed, it is this passion that strikes you when you<br />
meet the Rossé brothers, along with this precision<br />
and this search for balance! This redefinition is<br />
ever-present on their values but also those of the<br />
company. Even if the arrival of NC turned the bar<br />
machining world on its head in the Eighties, even if<br />
the profession has changed considerably and today’s<br />
machining solutions no longer require the same level<br />
of expertise, the men who work on the machines still<br />
make the difference. «Over the next few years, our<br />
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