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News Release from: StarragHeckert UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 November 2003
StarragHeckert to represent SHW in the
UK
One of Germany's specialist machine tool and system engineering companies, SHW Werkzeugmaschinen, will now be marketed in the UK by StarragHeckert UK.
Complementing the turnkey application engineering expertise of StarragHeckert UK, one of Germany's specialist machine tool and system engineering companies SHW Werkzeugmaschinen will now be marketed in the UK by the Brackley based operation SHW has a strong international business supplying high specification five-axis universal milling centres and travelling column machines with bed lengths up to 30 metres to heavier type industries as diverse as large die makers, turbine manufacturers, diesel engine, aerospace machinists and paper mill companies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Says Paul Maynard, managing director of StarragHeckert UK: "The SHW product range sits very well alongside our exclusive Starrag range of high value multi-axis milling machines as they both share a largely common customer base.
Also, with such equipment, it is the turnkey engineering capability that determines the order and success of the application and this is a major strength of StarragHeckert UK." SHW's history can be traced back some 650 years to early mining and refining of iron ore.
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It established the original iron foundry in Germany, produced engine blocks for early German automotive industry companies and now employs 1,400 people engineering special solutions for many of the top international names such as VW, Thyssen, MAN, Daimler, Benz, Bosch and ABB.
Central to SHW's machine tool operation is its five-axis machining head technology.
It's Power Speed Five lateral machining centre, for instance, developed for simultaneous five-axis machining of automotive tool and die applications can have an X-axis of up to 30 metres, a Y-axis of 1600mm and a Z-axis of 1300 mm.
Spindle power can be up to 26kW, giving 30,000 revs/min.
Rapid traverse rates are 30m/min in each axis and acceleration is exceptionally fast for a machine of this type at up to 5m/sec2.
At the other end of the scale its 'compact' UFZ5S universal milling centre developed for small to medium workpieces has an X-axis up to 4000mm, a Y-axis of 1,600 mm and Z-axis of 1300mm.
It's universal head is able to machine in 64,800 different positions at full 26kW power with automatic compilation of distance and tool compensation during rotation of the head axes.
The machine is also available with a HVK horizontal/vertical head which has an index time of under three seconds and in HFK format with a horizontal milling head.
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