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News Release from: Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools | Subject: Traub TNL26/32 sliding head automatic
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2005
Medical demand met with fourth automatic
With subcontracting growing steadily, Caragh Tool and Die in Galway has purchased a fourth Traub sliding-head lathe to provide machining services to medical device OEMs.
A fourth Traub sliding-head lathe has been purchased from UK agent, Geo Kingsbury, by Galway precision engineering firm, Caragh Tool and Die (_www.caragh.ie_ (http://www.caragh.ie/) ) in Ireland The company has seen its subcontract business grow steadily over the past six years since it started investing in this technology
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Aug 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The latest lathe is the firms third TNL12.
The other machine is a larger capacity TNL26/32 purchased to support Caragh Meditech, established in 2003 to provide machining services and turnkey manufacturing solutions to medical device OEMs.
Said Pat Ryan, Caragh's engineering manager, "All machines have 13 CNC axes including C-axis on the main and opposed spindles.
With two turrets and both front and reverse end working attachments, they allow manufacture of short runs of complex components to very high accuracy and quality that in the past would have been uneconomic." He continued, "Sliding-head lathes have been a big success story over recent years, as lean manufacturing has forced subcontractors to reduce set up times and eliminate second operations to remain competitive.
Traub was the pioneer of the twin-turret sliding-head design, which allows considerable flexibility of mill-turning, allowing most parts to come off the machines in a single hit.
The lathes have proved to be an excellent investment and are extremely reliable Caragh Tool and Die was formed in 1983 and operates from a 2000m2 factory employing around 70 people.
At the outset, the company was a subcontract supplier of jigs, fixtures and tooling to the growing number of multinationals in the region, but later expanded its activities into the component supply business.
Today, output from the Galway plant is split 30/70 between tooling and components, which it supplies to an international customer base in the automotive/transport and information technology industries as well as to the healthcare sector.
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