Product category:
Washing and pretreatment
News Release from: StarragHeckert UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2004
Unicut Precision buys component cleaning
system
Subcontract small mill/turned parts specialist Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden City has installed a Durr Ecoclean Minio 85C compact washing machine.
Subcontract small mill/turned parts specialist Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden City has installed a Durr Ecoclean Minio 85C compact washing machine worth GBP60,000 from StarragHeckert UK The Durr Ecoclean Minio 85C machine is compact with a floor area of just 1000 mm by 2000 mm
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Maintains joint managing director Charles Kenny: "We investigated all the options available using different cleaning processes and carried out numerous trials using parts which tend to be very difficult to clean due to internal slots, cross drillings, intersecting holes and grooves which tend to trap swarf." And indeed, the decision to buy the Durr Ecoclean was finalised after extended trials at the Brackley showroom of StarragHeckert UK to which Charles Kenny adds: "As achieving unbelievable results." Unicut Precision has 11 CNC sliding head and one fixed head mill/turn centres and as Charles Kenny reflects, we sometimes had up to 25,000 (pounds sterling) worth of components held up awaiting cleaning prior to dispatch.
"We tried contracting out to a cleaning specialist but the logistics, management, possibility of damage or loss of components from a batch and delays in delivery lead times to customers became a headache," he also maintains.
"Cleaning in house was taking up valuable time and changing legislation, health and safety and environmental problems always were becoming so critical that we decided to investigate the best methods we could find to semi-automate the process.".
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