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News Release from: NPL Technologies | Subject: Patternmaking
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 January 2002
Pattern maker invests in high speed
gantry mill
NPL Technologies, the Nuneaton based high tech patternmaker, has invested in a Parpas OMNIA 42, the largest machine the Italian manufacturer has sold to a UK company.
NPL Technologies, the Nuneaton based high tech patternmaker, has invested in a Parpas OMNIA 42, the largest machine the Italian manufacturer has sold to a UK company The OMNIA 42, a high speed fixed table gantry mill, is capable of cutting all materials including soft model board, aluminium, cast iron and hardened steel
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 15 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The OMNIA 42 has both low and high speed five axis heads, a cutting envelope of 4m x 2.5m x 1.5m and a Heidenhain TNC 430 CNC digital control system.
Tony Lowe, joint managing director NPL Technologies, said: "With this state-of-the-art CNC machine we will be able to machine very large components and to the same high levels of quality and delivery we have been achieving on smaller machines." NPL have installed a 10 ton crane for loading and unloading components on the OMNIA 42.
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