Sports injuries, car accidents or mishaps at home – bone fractures can occur suddenly and unexpectedly. Not infrequently, they are so severe that surgery on the fracture is unavoidable. Depending on the injury, the treating surgeon decides between wires, screwed plates or long bone screws to fix the fracture. Few patients know that bone screws in particular are high-tech medical products. The company hg medical from Raisting in Upper Bavaria is considered one of the leading subcontract manufacturers of these special screws. To produce them, hg medical relies on Swiss-type lathes from Traub and whirling tools from Paul Horn GmbH. In addition to conventional whirling, hg medical uses the high-speed whirling process.