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News Release from: Heller Machine Tools
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2004
More HMCs ordered to cope with valves
demand
To cope with increased off-shore industry orders for valves, Newburgh Engineering has ordered two MCH 280 horizontal machining centres from Heller Machine Tools on a short time scale.
Newburgh Engineering has ordered two MCH 280 horizontal machining centres from Heller Machine Tools The machines have been ordered to increase the company's machining capacity, primarily for a new contract to manufacture valves for the off-shore industry
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Feb 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Based in the quiet Derbyshire Peak District village of Bradwell, it has been recording a sustained and substantial annual growth rate for several years and forecasts a continuing 15% increase year-on-year.
To meet the demands such growth will place on its facilities, it is building an additional state-of-the-art factory at Rotherham, South Yorkshire.
The new site is geographically well placed and is also an ideal location for recruiting highly skilled engineers.
It will accommodate the new Heller machines in a manufacturing cell dedicated to the new contract.
First of the MCH280s will be installed at the Bradwell in site, where it will be proved out whilst the new factory is completed.
The second machine will be installed in the new Rotherham facility, and once proved out Heller will move the first machine to join it.
Manufacturing Director of Newburgh, Stuart Eaton said "The market and our position in it is such that we have the opportunity to achieve - and possibly exceed - our planned growth.
Much of our business is based on building long term working partnerships and manufacturing agreements with customers and creating dedicated manufacturing cells to handle specific contracts.
Heller is the ideal partner for us, with a similar attitude to business.
The engineering support at Redditch is appropriate to our requirements and the machines have the quality and suitability we need for both the new and potential contracts.
"We selected the Hellers because they have the speed and precision we require, and the gear driven spindle offers extensive flexibility.
The impressive speeds of the pallet change, tool change and the chip to chip times help minimize cycle times and piece part costs.
The spindle is suitably robust and powerful for machining stainless steel.
The tool breakage monitoring is also a vital feature because the work involves considerable, and very demanding, small diameter drilling into stainless.
More than that, the Hellers are very flexible machines which would accept other jobs besides this one".
The MCH horizontal machining centres are built at Heller's plant in Redditch.
They have the high build quality which provides the rigidity, robustness and precision needed for efficient and profitable production by giving greater productivity, higher chip to chip times, bigger axes and greater tool capacity with a reduced footprint.
The MCH 280s have the Heller gear driven BT50 spindle and provide a large working envelope of 1000mm (X) x 800mm (Y) x 800mm (Z).
Spindle speed is 45-6,000 rev/min.
Pallet size is 630mm square.
Control is by Siemens Sinumerik 840D. Request free introductory details about products from Heller Machine Tools ...
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