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A New Environment for the Tornos SwissNano
Tornos latest product launched, the SwissNano, is a remarkable machine in many respects. Produced entirely in Moutier, Switzerland, the SwissNano is assembled in an equally exceptional setting. The Manager of the new SwissNano Center, Mr Giovanni Ladarola highlights some of the philosophies implemented and how the machines are built on the new production line: "Firstly, we have grouped togethe ...
Watch Pinion Produced on the SwissNano
The first SwissNano machines supplied by Tornos have been integrated into customers' production lines. One of the first installations and a test-bed customer was Oxomedic in Saint-Aubin, a small bar turning workshop that was founded in 2000. Now working exclusively with Tornos turning machines, company owner and director Stéphane Liechti highlights why: "When I decided to start producing pa ...
Touch Probe Halves Production Costs
The requirements in terms of quality and accuracy in the automotive industry are continuously increasing. This also has consequences for toolmakers such as G.RAU based in Pforzheim in Germany as the basis for low tolerances in subsequent end products is created here. At G.RAU, laser measuring systems for tool measurement, workpiece touch probes and the associated FormControl software from Blum Nov ...
Diba Industries Eliminates Bottleneck with Tornos
When Diba Industries identified a bottleneck in its machine shop that produces connectors, fittings and adaptors for the fluid handling industry, it found the solution with a Tornos Delta 12/5 turning centre. As a market leading provider of innovative solutions to the most demanding fluid path applications for the clinical and scientific sectors, Cambridge based Diba has a turning section that ...
San-tron – a family operation with Tornos connections
Headquartered in Massachusetts, is San-tron, Inc., a successful manufacturer of RF connectors, turned components and cable assemblies that can attribute a proportion of its success to Tornos machine tools. The family-owned company was started in a cellar by Kenneth Sanders after he completed duty as a Machinist’s Mate on PT boats for the Navy in World War II. Since then, the company has seen its ...
Service Robots Revolutionize Clean-Up of the Sydney Harbor Bridge
While research continues under laboratory conditions else-where, Australian robotics specialists have demonstrated a con-crete application at the recent SCHUNK Expert Days event on Service Robotics. Using the Sydney Harbor Bridge as an exam-ple, Australian specialists have highlighted how service robots will soon revolutionize how steel structures are serviced. The robust lightweight robotic syste ...
Machine Investment Continues at ITC
As the UK's leading manufacturer of cutting tools, Industrial Tooling Corp (ITC) has invested over £1m in new machine tools in the last 12 months. The new acquisitions include an Anca GX7, Rollomatic NP5 and four Walter Helitronic grinding centres. The continual investment program at ITC highlights the company's commitment to delivering cutting tools that are manufactured to the highest p ...
Floyd Improves Hole Accuracy For Motorcycle Subcontractor
When A-BAX Precision Engineering Ltd was having difficulties in achieving holemaking concentricity and accuracy on a new order the company won, the scrap rate and re-working rapidly escalated. Looking for a solution that would improve concentricity, accuracy and repeatability with its small hole drilling, A-BAX turned to Floyd Automatic Tooling and its Mowidec-TT Spindle centring system for the ...
AG/CAD Designs Large Format Success for PS2 Print Company
As a company that has invested over £750k in the last 12 months, PS2 Print Ltd has developed from a repro print and design business to a company that can fulfil virtually all print demands. Since its inception in 1995, the Runcorn based company has rapidly evolved with its latest diversification being to enter the large format print sector. The entry into large format work over the last five ye ...
Tornos Unlocks Productivity By Retrofitting HPC System
Over the last five years, Southco, a manufacturer of quick access fasteners has seen demand for its product range increase and evolve with more stainless steel products requested. For the Surrey manufacturer that has turned its parts on two Tornos Deco 20A and a Deco 26A machines for over ten years, the material change delivered poor swarf control, excessive machine downtime and the loss of full ...
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