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Compressor saves costs (1st March 2007)
Thorite, supplier of pneumatic products and systems, has recently installed a new Hydrovane 11kW compressor at Bradford-based bespoke joinery manufacturers IMS Office Fitting and Design. Thorite's engineers spent a week data
From Plant process control
Compressed air and pneumatic webstore (1st July 2006)
Compressed air and process systems specialist, Thorite, has upgraded its website with the introduction of an easy to use webstore called Thorite Direct.
Third axis functionality (1st July 2006)
ACI (UK) says it has made multifunctional, three-axis digital readout (DRO) technology simple and affordable with its uprated Acu-Rite 100S.
From Production engineering
Streamline Machining (1st March 2006)
'Streamline Machining' will be the focus of NC Engineering's display of the latest technology from Citizen for producing components up to 32mm diameter on CNC sliding head turn/mill centres or 42mm through the Citizen Boley fixed-head machine range.
Affordable turning machines (1st March 2006)
A Colchester Tornado with seven axes heads up a count-down of six, three and two-axis machines said to provide a new level of productive capability solutions for multi-axis turning machines at affordable prices.
CNC retrofit (1st March 2005)
By retrofitting an Anilam 3000M Series CNC to an Avon knee-type milling machine, ACI Europe agent, Machine Tool Controls, has implanted what it says is an unrivalled level of user-friendliness into machining operations at the United Bristol Healthcar
Unmanned mill/turn centre package (1st March 2005)
Afifth Colchester Tornado has been bought by Roger Metcalfe of Cleveland Components. The ‘lights-out’ package gives an unmanned running capability and has enabled the company to secure a £40 000 a year contract that it would not have been able to quo
Versatile and cost effective (1st March 2005)
Available from NC Engineering, Citizen’s K-series CNC sliding head automatic lathe combines two opposed spindles offering up to six turning tools, eight end-working tools and seven driven tools. These give high precision, single-hit cycles for parts
50 000 rpm (1st March 2005)
Spindle speeds to 50 000 revs/min can now be obtained on the Fanuc Robodrill Alpha T21 D-Series following a customised package development by 600 Centre.
Easy-to-use (1st September 2004)
When chocolate mould maker, Down Professional Services, invested in a new vertical machining centre, its choice of a Parkson 810 LW from Broadbent Stanley Machine Tools was based largely on the availability of probing cycles as standard within the ma
One-hit, five-axis solution (1st September 2004)
One-hit, five-axis mill/turning centre technology that has automatic part transfer to a second operation subspindle to provide the one-high machining cycle, is now available from Colchester Sales. The company says lead times can be reduced and highly
Entry level (1st September 2004)
Available from NC Engineering, the Citizen C16-V1E 16mm capacity CNC sliding headstock automatic lathe is expected to establish a value-for-money benchmark for high productivity one-hit mill/turning of small parts.
VMC with choice of control (1st September 2004)
A vertical machining centre with a high performance to competitive price ratio, the Richmond VMC 600 is now available with options of Fanuc Oi-MB or the latest Anilam 6000 CNC system.
Offers real time awareness (1st March 2004)
Seiki Systems is launching two software packages at MACH 2004. These give a dynamic live display of production schedules, assess the effects of delays and changes to schedules and monitor and control the use of cnc programs. The software provides vis
Productivity gains from new cnc tool grinder (1st March 2004)
Several new products will be demonstrated at MACH 2004 by Walter GB as part of its tool system display. New products include the Helitronic Vision five-axis cnc tool grinder, that promises tool grinding productivity gains of up to 50% over competitiv
New lathe cuts cycle times (1st March 2004)
Following its investment in a Colchester Tornado 220 slant bed chucking lathe, Aspin Engineering has cut extrusion die machining up to 70%, adopted hard turning of materials up to 45HRC, reduced grinding requirements by a third and expanded into gene
CNCS & DROS (1st March 2004)
Anilam will use MACH 2004 to showcase its range of two- and multi-axis cncs. The stand will also illustrate the companys one-/four-axis DROs and complementary precision glass scale linear encoder technology. On show will be the upgraded Commando syst
Offers new level of flexibility (1st March 2004)
On show for the first time in the UK at MACH 2004 will be two new lathe workholding products from Leader Chuck Systems, the Mando Adapt and the Jaw Adapt. The company has high hopes for the products and is again looking towards the exhibitions produc
User-friendly three-axis milling control (1st September 2003)
A days training by cnc and digital readout company Anilam was all it took for Stead & Wilkins Fabrications to get its latest acquisition, a KM80 three-axis cnc milling machine, up and running. The new machine has an Anilam 3300 MK three-axis cnc that
Value offered (1st September 2003)
Colchester Sales offers the new variable speed Master and Triumph VS centre lathes at 11 950 and 12 750 respectively. Providing value for money, both machines feature an ac inverter 7.5kW electronic spindle drive giving constant power, through three
