Magerle MFP 51

The Magerle MFP 51 is a CNC profile and surface grinding machine from Magerle, the United Grinding Group's specialist in large-format profile grinding for aerospace, automotive, and power generation industries. Where Blohm's Profimat handles mid-size profile grinding, Magerle's MFP series addresses production-scale profile grinding of large workpieces — turbine blades, compressor disks, and aerospace structural sections requiring complex 2D profiles ground in hardened nickel, titanium, and steel alloys.

The MFP 51 provides a 510 mm clamping width with X/Y/Z CNC axes plus a CNC profile dressing system that conditions the grinding wheel to the required cross-sectional geometry. The machine's rotary table option enables multi-face component processing in a single setup, a significant advantage for compressor disks requiring profile grinding on multiple blade root slots around the disk perimeter. Magerle's high-pressure coolant system (up to 80 bar) enables aggressive creep-feed grinding of nickel superalloys at material removal rates that minimize thermal damage in these aerospace-critical materials.

Magerle machines dominate the production turbine blade root grinding segment, installed at the major aero-engine OEMs — GE, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce — and their tier-1 suppliers. The MFP 51's 510 mm clamping width handles single-stage turbine blades and compressor stages up to medium-sized engines. For larger blades (long-haul turbofan and industrial gas turbine), Magerle offers the MFP 100 with a 1,000 mm clamping width.

At $600,000-$900,000 new, the MFP 51 is a specialized aerospace production investment. The machine justifies its cost through consistent profile accuracy (±0.002 mm or better), high throughput on turbine blade root forms, and the ability to maintain residual stress profiles within aerospace specification in nickel superalloy grinding — requirements that no other grinding technology meets at production scale.