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News Release from: Engineering Technology Group, The
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2005
Turning orders placed during Open House
event
During the Engineering Technology Group's inaugural Open House in May 2005, orders of GBP 750,000 were placed for six Nakamura-Tome Super High Precision Turning machines.
Reports showing an increase in manufacturing confidence were confirmed when over 150 current and future customers visited the Engineering Technology Group's inaugural Open House during May, 2005 Orders were placed at the event for Chiron high productivity machining centres worth around GBP 750,000 and a total of six Nakamura-Tome Super High Precision Turning machines
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 16 Aug 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Richard Turner, Managing Director of Turning Technologies, the sole UK distributor for Nakamura-Tome's Super High Precision Turning Centres, said, "The open house was a great success".
"Not only did we receive orders for five WT-150 twin spindle, twin turret, multi-axis turning centres and one Super NTJ machine, but we also had a very positive response to our new Nakamura-Tome WT-100 turning centre." This new 42mm bar capacity machine follows Nakamura-Tome's one-hit- machining design philosophy and is designed to bridge the gap between the small turned parts traditionally produced on cam autos or sliding head machines, and the 51mm bar capacity WT-150 turning centre.
"Several visitors using sliding head machines described the machining problems they have experienced machining 20mm and 32mm bar sizes in exotic materials".
" Motor power constraints and light machine designs mean they have to compromise on cutting feeds and speeds".
"The result is longer cycle times and swarf problems".
"The new WT100 overcomes this as it not only compares very favourably in terms of floor-space with sliding head machines, but also delivers fixed head cutting performance," said Turner.
Chiron had six machines running live demonstrations at the event including the new five-axis FZ 15 and the DZ 15W twin spindle machine.
According to Chiron's Managing Director Richard Blake, by combining twin spindles with the world's fastest tool changer, the DZ15W can cut cycle time by over 60%".
""It is currently used by many top automotive manufacturers around the world and is now being deployed in the UK to significantly improve productivity to compete with lower cost based countries," he said.
Commenting on the event, Group Chairman Paul Rhodes said, "The positive response we have had and the orders we have received confirm that the Engineering Technology Group's unique approach is meeting a real need".
"UK manufacturers can only succeed by investing in fast, productive, reliable and flexible machine tools and, even more importantly, the advanced, engineered manufacturing processes to take full advantage of them.".
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