Colchester-Harrison
600 Centre Gelders Hall Road
Shepshed
Loughborough
LE12 9NH
UK
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Turning centres double employee productivity
Challenger Hydraulics has doubled the productivity of each of its employees over the past four years by installing Colchester-Harrison lathes.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 16 September 2008
Vertical machining centre is simultaneous 5-axis
Colchester-Harrison has introduced a simultaneous 5-axis CNC vertical machining centre for high accuracy, five-side machining operations.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 14 April 2008
Twin turret Tornado cuts floor to floor time
The new generation, 100% British designed and manufactured Colchester-Harrison Tornado TT6 turn-mill centre, is the ideal platform for high performance turning and Y-axis milling operations
News from Manufacturingtalk, 7 March 2008
CNC mill-turn centre cuts product lead times
A hydraulic systems producer is using a 5-axis mill-turn centre, with sub-spindle, to achieve continual improvements in productivity, surface finish and aid reduction of overall product lead times.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 26 February 2008
Advanced CNC mill-turn centre is easy to program
An eight-axis, twin spindle, twin turret, CNC mill-turn centre has a control system further enhanced to improve ease of use and especially when performing on-machine programming.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 22 February 2008
Vertical machining centres offer wide choice
Vertical machining centres are in a rang covering from a simple, low-cost, high rigidity general purpose machine, to a high specification type with 15,000 rev/min spindle and 48m/min rapid traverse.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 20 December 2007
Mill/turn centre speeds changeover on batches
A CNC mill/turn centre equipped with a sub-spindle provides quick job changeover times when producing 500 different motor shaft types in a 'single-hit' cycle.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 6 December 2007
CNC lathes builder to save energy usage
UK CNC lathe and turning centre builder, 600 Lathes, aims to become a 'reference site' not only for quality products but achieving good environmental practices.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 22 November 2007
UK machine tool builder records EMO orders
Colchester-Harrison reports that it sold over EUR 1 million worth of machine tools during the first days of EMO 2007, with 60% of orders originating in Germany.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 20 November 2007
Vertical machining centres and CNC lathes shown
Shown for the first time at EMO 2007 was range of vertical machining centres alongside CNC production and flat-bed CNC and combination lathes and mill-turn centres.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 20 September 2007
Rigidity for multi axis mill turn centres
The 'Duo-Stable' construction on Colchester-Harrison's latest Tornado machines offers higher productivity and stability.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 18 September 2007
UK CNC lathe factory restructured
Colchester-Harrison has restructured its lathe plant to meet rising order books for its CNC range of Tornado mill/turn centres and Alpha combination lathes.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 10 September 2007
Mill-turn centre does jobs in one set-up
A mill-turning centre with a sub-spindle has taken multi-operational work away from a conventional CNC lathe and machining centres to finish jobs complete in a single set-up, said a subcontractor.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 22 August 2007
CNC lathes and mill-turn centres to be shown
Latest 2-axis CNC lathes have significantly increased spindle power and size of the linear ways and will be shown at EMO 2007 alongside advanced mill-turn centres.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 19 July 2007
CNC lathes range includes mill/turn centres
For most machining applications, a UK company offers CNC lathes ranging from 3-axis machines to mill/turn centres with Y-axis, 'combination' manual/CNC lathes and vertical machining centres.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 11 May 2007
Vertical machining centre has geared head
To maximise productivity when milling and drilling from a 22kW, 6,000 rev/min ZF geared headstock design, a vertical machining centre has high rigidity and high lateral stiffness in its structure.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 19 April 2007
Mill/turn centre combines three ops into one
Mill/turn centre can machine off-centre features, keyways, flats and contoured milled surfaces as well as perform helical milling and has combined thee operations into one.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 16 April 2007
UK subcontractor to expand CNC machine tool park
Having to increase its manufacturing capacity, a subcontractor has invested GBP 250,000 in CNC lathes and a vertical machining centre to meet growing oil/gas/subsea components demand.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 28 March 2007
South UK orders for CNC lathes surged
Latest CNC lathes and mill-turn centres gained a sudden rise in orders for Colchester-Harrison's Kent, UK agent - some GBP 500,000 - during the closing months of 2006.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 27 February 2007
CNC lathes' conversational programming wins
Conversational programming, which is very easy to learn, allows a subcontractor to program most of its CNC lathe jobs on the shop floor - even quite complex work.
News from Manufacturingtalk, 27 February 2007
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