SORALUCE Awarded at the BIEMH 2026 Advanced Innovation Awards for Its Intelligent Automation Solutions

SORALUCE, company integrated into Danobatgroup, has been recognized as a winner at the 16th edition of the BIEMH Advanced Innovation Awards, in the category “Innovation in Automation in Advanced Manufacturing Environments”, for its proposal of intelligent automation solutions for the machining of large, high-precision parts.

The awards, organized within the framework of the 2026 International Machine-Tool Biennial (BIEMH) in collaboration with BEAZ and the Basque Government, recognize the most advanced technological initiatives presented at the trade fair and their impact on industrial competitiveness.

SORALUCE’s award-winning solution makes it possible to configure anything from semi-automated machines to fully autonomous FMS cells, combining milling, boring and turning centers with automatic tool and pallet change systems, advanced robotics, and proprietary control software with a distributed architecture. All of this is delivered through a modular and scalable approach, tailored to the specific needs of each customer.

According to the jury, SORALUCE’s proposal stands out for its high level of technological innovation, its differential contribution to the automation of large-part machining, and its ability to integrate digitalization, productivity, safety, and sustainability into a single industrial solution. 

Key benefits of the solution include a significant reduction in non-productive times, the possibility of unattended operation, improved quality and traceability, and intelligent management of the tool life cycle, contributing to energy efficiency and a reduced carbon footprint.

The system’s modular architecture, together with high-precision palletizing interfaces designed and manufactured by SORALUCE, guarantees extremely high levels of repeatability and accuracy, even for parts up to 4,000 mm in diameter and weighing up to 40 tons, meeting the most demanding standards of sectors such as aerospace, space, and semiconductor equipment manufacturing.

This recognition reinforces SORALUCE’s strategy as a comprehensive partner for automated solutions, based on the development of proprietary hardware, modular software, and a strong commitment to eco-design, digitalization, and user experience, all articulated around its “Total Machine” concept.

With this award, SORALUCE strengthens its positioning as an international benchmark in advanced automation and intelligent manufacturing, reaffirming its commitment to continuous innovation as a key lever for improving industrial competitiveness.

About Soraluce

With a wealth of experience based on 60 years of history and inspired by innovation, Soraluce is moving the machine tool sector forward with innovative pioneer engineering solutions that have made it a benchmark within the sector.

Soraluce´s success is based on excellent quality, the best possible service, in-house state-of-the-art technology, its technological capacity to customize each product in accordance with the individual requirements of the customer, and a fully international outlook. Soraluce produces innovative solutions with commitment to the technological progress of its customers, addressing the challenges of the most demanding machining work, and establishing new standards.

Soraluce offers an extensive range of milling machines, boring machines and vertical lathes, multipurpose solutions and automated lines and systems, with a professional advisory service in machining engineering and a highly experienced technical team to assess the production and machining processes of our customers and provide solutions to optimize them in accordance with the parameters of quality, efficiency and costs demanded by the investor.

Innovation is Soraluce´s cutting edge, and it has pioneered many of the technologies driving the machine tool sector, such as, for example, the DAS™ system (Dynamic Active Stabilizer), the Modular Quill system and the Ram Balance (a system to offset ram fall), all of which have been patented.

This European brand has a wealth of experience and has sold over 3,300 machines, almost half of them in Germany, an extremely demanding market. It has also been observed over the years that 80% of customers have returned to confirm their trust in its products.

Soraluce forms part of Danobatgroup, the machine tool division of the Mondragon Corporation, one of Europe´s largest business groups. It has Excellence Centers in Germany, Italy, the USA, China and the UK, and its own R+D center staffed by 120 engineers and 29 Ph.Ds, a facility that goes back more than 30 years. Danobatgroup provides one of the market´s most comprehensive and competitive multi-technology offers. With a headcount of 1,400 employees and a turnover of 344 million euros, it has a clear focus on innovation, investing approximately 9% of revenue in R+D+i.