Two buyers acquire Hermle 5-axis machining centres

To assist in the manufacture of Seco's semi-standard, multi-directional turning tools, the company has bought its first Hermle 5-axis machining centre through Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools.

To assist in the manufacture of Seco's semi-standard, multi-directional turning (MDT) tools, which can turn, profile and groove both axially and radially, Seco Tools UK, Alcester, has bought its first Hermle 5-axis machining centre through sole agent, Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools.

Commented Roy Organ, Seco's manager - Custom Tooling, "We opted for the Hermle C 30 machine as our Swedish company has successfully used similar 5-axis models for a number of years to produce standard MDT tools".

"We particularly like the good accessibility to the working area for loading and unloading the parts." * Subcontractor buys 5-axis machining centre for aerospace work - Lymington, UK, based precision engineers, Intersat, which specialises in work for the aircraft, oil and related industries, has installed a Hermle C 40 U vertical, 5-axis machining centre to allow it to win additional contracts from the aerospace and power generator sectors.

The machine, which has been equipped with laser tool setting and Renishaw probing, was supplied by Hermle's UK agent, Geo Kingsbury.

Intersat's Managing Director, Jon Sutton, said that the 10 tonne Hermle machine was selected owing to its robust construction on a cast mineral bed, with the trunnion set directly into it.

He feels that the resulting rigidity, vibration-damping characteristics and thermal stability will allow top accuracy machining and enable maximum life performance to be taken from today's modern cutters.

According to availability of the machine, it will also be deployed on simpler work to eliminate multiple set-ups on 3- or 4-axis machines.

Backing up the Hermle is Delcam's programming software.

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