KNOLL Maschinenbau of Bad Saulgau ranks among the world's leading suppliers of systems for conveying and filtering chips and cooling lubricant in the metal machining industry. In order to be able to serve European OEMs among the machine tool manufacturers on the Asian market flexibly and at reasonable cost, KNOLL recently started assembly its systems in Shanghai. The focus here is on high quality; this may be no different from the products made in Germany.