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CTL Centreline
Address:
Unit B, Grovelands Estate, Longford Road
Coventry
Exhall
CV7 9ND
UK
Telephone: (UK) +44 24 7635 4111
http://www.ctl-centreline.com
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Listing of all 19 news releases from CTL Centreline:
Gear-driven heads serviced in hours
Multi-spindle drilling and tapping heads, angle heads and speeders produced by CTL Centreline can be repaired in most cases within one working day at the Coventry factory.
News from CTL Centreline ( 7 October 2005)
Milling head raises flange output four-fold
User application article International manufacturer of wheels has achieved a four-fold increase in production efficiency using a bespoke, three-way, right-angle head to mill 40 flanges/h instead of 10/h.
News from CTL Centreline (14 September 2005)
Mill/turn investment halves toolholder lead times
Users of high-speed machining may be interested to learn that Coventry Toolholders is halving the lead-time from order to delivery for its flange- and taper-contact HSK toolholders.
News from CTL Centreline (10 August 2005)
Right-angle machining heads stored in ATC magazine
Two right-angle heads - one for milling-intensive work and the other for drilling and tapping - can be exchanged automatically from a machining centre's tool magazine.
News from CTL Centreline (13 July 2005)
Heavy-duty head mills tough materials
A very heavy-duty, right-angle head weighing 750kg for a nuclear energy equipment manufacturer in the USA transmit 13kW of power at just 50 rev/min to machine tough metals.
News from CTL Centreline (27 June 2005)
Centreline tooling products re-born in Coventry
Agreement has been reached under which the Coventry Engineering Group has acquired Centreline products and will be manufactured by a new company, CTL Centreline.
News from CTL Centreline (11 February 2005)
Angle heads and speeders to be introduced
New and improved angle-heads and speeders will be unveiled at MACH 2004 alongside a range of multi-spindle drilling / tapping heads and rotary coolant adaptors for prismatic machining.
News from CTL Centreline ( 5 February 2004)
VMC with angle head reduces time from 2h to 45min
User application article Using a right-angle milling head on a VMC to machine internal drum apertures in hydraulic motor parts in 45min has replaced a time-consuming 2h cycle manually operated slotting process.
News from CTL Centreline (24 November 2003)
CD demonstrates ATC of heads in machining centre
CD uses video clips to show in detail how multi-heads, angle heads, speeders and rotary coolant adapters are exchanged between the tool magazine and spindle in a machining centre.
News from CTL Centreline (11 November 2003)
Fast-acting multi-spindle tapper is semi-automatic
User application article Semi-automatic multi-spindle tapping machine uses two M8 taps to machine two cast holes at a time either side of a central bore in the steering wheel.
News from CTL Centreline (15 September 2003)
Rotating and swivelling head boosts VMCs to 5-axis
Users of 3-axis CNC vertical machining centres can now upgrade to full 5-axis interpolative metalcutting with the addition of a rotating and swivelling, motorised angle head.
News from CTL Centreline ( 8 August 2003)
Special milling heads double thread die output
User application article Special double-sided right-angle heads are able to mill a pair of flat thread rolling dies simultaneously on any of six Cincinnati Arrow VMCs instead of machining singly as before on HMCs
News from CTL Centreline (28 April 2003)
Milling head solved ID bearing slot problem
User application article Horizontal machining centres posed a problem when trying to access the inner diameter of some products to mill axial lubrication slots, but a special 180 deg milling head did the job.
News from CTL Centreline (24 March 2003)
Right-angled heads drastically reduce setups
User application article Using right-angled milling and drilling heads in a machining centre enabled key features on a component to be completed in two set-ups instead of, traditionally, six or seven.
News from CTL Centreline ( 6 November 2002)
Heavy right-angle heads go to USA energy plant
Centreline, has manufactured two very heavy duty right angle heads, each weighing 750kg, for a nuclear energy equipment manufacturer in the USA.
News from CTL Centreline (26 June 2002)
Fixed angle drilling heads accept tools from ATC
User application article At Trelleborg Automotive, UK, two Centreline fixed angle drilling heads are helping to ensure a production rate of 40 spacer blocks per hour from a vertical machining centre.
News from CTL Centreline ( 9 October 2001)
Drill, mill and tap head lightened for ATC usage
The Centreline RAD-120 right-angle milling, drilling and tapping head has been redesigned with a fabricated rather than a cast aluminium body and weighs 10 per cent less at 4.1 kg.
News from CTL Centreline ( 2 May 2001)
4000 holes tapped per hour
User application article British manufacturer, Centreline, has built a special purpose machine for tapping 18 holes with three different pitches simultaneously in an aluminium alloy die casting.
News from CTL Centreline (14 July 2000)
Large right-angle milling and drilling heads made
User application article Three right-angle milling and drilling heads valued at £25,000 have been manufactured by Centreline at its Nuneaton factory for AB Marwin
News from CTL Centreline (14 July 2000)
