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News Release from: Trumpf | Subject: Trumpf CNC sheet metal punching cell
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 December 2005
Consistent investment in CNC punching
wins orders
Earlier invcestment in CNC punching and CNC press brakes had trebled the turnover of a sheet metal company and has encouraged the management to purchase the latest automatic CNC cell.
Seven years ago Constant Engineering made its first Trumpf investment, a modest TC200 punch press In the intervening years, another TC200 and two TrumaBend press brakes followed
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Now, with its turnover trebled, this Manchester company is moving up another gear.
A TC5000R FMC is its latest acquisition and this fully automated punching cell is currently being installed at brand new premises.
"We are growing with Trumpf and have every confidence that within 5-7 years we will be expanding yet again," managing director Richard Garlick explained.
Constant Engineering comprises two operating divisions.
One manufactures a range of architectural ironmongery products for the OEM and retail market, the other undertakes sub-contract fabrication.
Established in 1970, Constant is now owned and run by two generations of the Garlick family.
The ability to cut, punch and countersink components on a single machine was real progress for Constant when it first started using the TC200 in 1998.
"We needed a lot of help in the early stages and Trumpf was there for us," Garlick explained.
"We have a fabulous working relationship with them." In partnership with Trumpf Constant's confidence has grown and so too has business.
With the TC5000R FMC, the company plans to develop a 24h fabrication service with emphasis on quality parts at the lowest possible cost and in the shortest possible time.
Whilst one particular product in Constant's range would have occupied the TC200 for 16h, i e, for two days, the TC5000R will be able to complete it unmanned and overnight.
The greater capacity of this new machine will therefore allow the Garlick family to expand further its parallel sub-contract business.
Soon to join the TC5000R is a larger TrumaBend press brake. Request a free brochure from Trumpf ...
Garlick concludes, "I am really looking forward to buying more Trumpf machines, I just ca not fault them.".
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