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Swiss Sharpening Shop Acquires Vollmer Technology
For Swiss sharpening service Siprotool AG, precision comes first when it comes to business success. For this reason, the medium sized company from Rothenburg is using Swabian sharpening technology from Vollmer. Siprotool is making use of the eight axis Vollmer CHD 270 CNC grinding machine. This machine enables the efficient and precision processing of carbide tipped circular saw blades according t ...
Blum-Novotest Building A Successful Relationship With Huron
The first contact between Blum and Huron was made through the German manufacturers' laser tool setting technology. The varied customer needs induced Blum-Novotest to develop mechanical tool setting systems based on the technical expertise it has gained with its laser systems. Today, Huron is proud to be able to offer these measuring systems on its own machines. A price war is raging in the ...
Oxy-Fuel, Plasma, Waterjet or Laser Cutting?
The past four decades has seen considerable developments in the metal cutting process with a range of oxy-fuel, plasma, waterjet and laser cutting machines used to cut materials from 1mm galvanised sheet through to 300mm thick mild steel. Each process still has its role to play in the cost effective manufacture of a wide range of products. There is no question that early air plasma systems crea ...
Blum Ensures NASCAR Team Finishes First For Productivity
When the owner of your race team is a three-time winner of the American NASCAR championship series, as well as a three-time Super Bowl winning coach, you might expect that no stone would be left unturned in achieving excellence in performance, either on the track or in the machine shop. For Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR); Huntersville, North Carolina, teamwork is the key to success in the NASCAR Sprint ...
Tooling Manufacturer Develops New Products & Growth With Vollmer
When Prima Tooling recognized the exponentially increasing demand for PCD tooling, the company invested heavily in Vollmer machine tools to support cutting tool production. However, the Essex based cutting tool manufacturer that opened its doors for business in 1979, first noted the demand for PCD tooling back in 1985. Like other cutting tool manufacturers, Prima was limited throughout the 1990 ...
Westwind Reduces Subcontract Costs With Tornos Investment
As the world's leading and largest specialist designer and manufacturer of air bearing spindles, Westwind Air Bearings is enjoying significant growth levels across many of its spindle sectors. To support this growth, Westwind has undertaken an investment program to bring the production of jets, and a number of additional small machined parts in-house from subcontractors. The reasoning behin ...
Stepping Into 5-Axis Machining With Open Mind
When Copsey Engineering committed to set itself as a benchmark in the subcontracting industry, the Essex manufacturer made its first step from 3 to 5-axis machining with the acquisition of an OKK 5-axis machining centre and CAM software from OPEN MIND Technologies to drive the business forward. Since acquiring the OKK VP600 machine and its first seat of hyperMILL in 2006, the company has since ...
Vollmer is Part of the Family at Ernest Bennett's
Celebrating its 50th year of business next year, one of the founding partners and company chairman at Ernest Bennett (Darlington) Ltd puts the company’s success down to the hard work and support of his family, long serving staff and a strategy of heavy re-investment in technology. As Ernest Bennett (Darlington) Chairman, Mr Rob Maxey recalls: “The Company was formed by my uncle Ernest Bennett ...
Bottling Successful Precision With Blum
With the worldwide consumption of PET bottle caps estimated at 4 billion pieces a day, it is obvious that the production of plastic caps for the beverage, cosmetic or household industries is a lucrative field. This lucrative industry has its relentless rules and regulations. The Czech producer of base plates for multiple injection moulds, the Tirad company, has been a part of the supply chain, ...
Tornos MultiSwiss Improves Productivity for French Automotive Subcontractor
During EMO 2011, a new concept of machine forming a link between sliding headstock lathes and multi-spindle machines was unveiled by Tornos. At the time, a Tornos customer in France, Joseph Martin SA was the first company to be used as a test-bed for the MultiSwiss 6x14 turning machine. At the end of 2012, Joseph Martin purchased a second MultiSwiss machine, this time in Chucker version. Laure ...
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