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News Release from: Aberlink | Subject: CMMs
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 09 March 2007
CMMs offered to machine tool customers
JSC Sterlitamak MTE are now evaluating Aberlink machines as part of a collaboration agreement, whereby they will also offer Aberlink Axiom Too CMMs to their many machine tool customers.
The fragmentation of the old Soviet Union has presented many enterprising Western Companies with excellent commercial opportunities Typical of the very profitable business that can be generated by business people willing to blaze the trail to member Countries of the Federation of Russian Republics, is the recent experience of Gavin Bailey, joint owner of Aberlink , the largest UK-owned Coordinate Measuring Machine manufacturer
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 4 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Gavin recently endured temperatures of between -25C and -27C and deep snow drifts, whilst visiting the JSC Sterlitamak MTE Company, in Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan, to oversee the installation of 2 Aberlink Axiom Too manual CMMs.
With Ufa as the capital, Sterlitamak is Bashkortostan's 2nd City and is located some 2 hours flying time east of Moscow.
Now employing approx 1,500 people manufacturing a wide range of high quality m/c tools, JSC Sterlitamak MTE enjoyed a rich history under the Communist Soviet Union regime.
Previously called the Lenin Machine Tool Enterprise, the company was moved from Odessa in the south to Sterlitamak in 1941, to ensure continuity of production during the 2nd World War.
At its peek JSC Sterlitamak MTE employed over 5,000 people.
Having purchased the 2 Aberlink CMMs for their own Quality Control requirements, JSC Sterlitamak MTE are now evaluating the machines as part of a collaboration agreement, whereby they will also offer Aberlink Axiom Too CMMs to their many machine tool customers.
With a reputation for ease of use and robust construction, Aberlink offer an extremely comprehensive range of CMMs in terms of size and accuracy, at a price that the Russian market can afford.
As The Federation of Russian Republics has a huge manufacturing base that is under-developed, in terms of Quality Control equipment, specifically CMMs, JSC Sterlitamak MTE are confidant of selling more than 100 Aberlink CMMs per year.
Aberlink are now busy translating all of their manuals into Russian and working hard at ensuring their new commercial links become mutually profitable to both parties.
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