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A new range of storage and handling systems for loading and unloading machine tools automatically has been introduced to the UK and Ireland by Whitehouse Machine Tools, Kenilworth, in partnership with the Turkish manufacturer Tezmaksan. CubeBOX robotic cells are suitable for automating virtually any make of CNC lathe or machining centre, including those that Whitehouse
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Brother, the Japanese 30-taper machining centre manufacturer, has had a machine in its portfolio with a one-metre X-axis for nearly a decade. The third iteration of this model, launched in April 2023, has seen the specification uprated in several key areas to boost capacity and versatility. Sole sales and service agent in Britain and Ireland
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30-taper vertical machining centre (VMC) manufacturer Brother, Japan, has introduced a new 5-axis model with a swivelling rotary table, the Speedio U500Xd1. Despite having a nominal footprint of just 1.5 x 2 metres, it is capable of multi-face machining of components up to 500 mm diameter by 270 mm high and weighing up to 100
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Speedio 30-taper, 3- to 5-axis machining centres built by Brother are able to produce components in such short cycle times that it is difficult to load raw material and unload finished parts by hand quickly enough. So to maximise production efficiency, the Japanese machine manufacturer introduced a robotic handling system, Feedio, at the EMO machine
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It was as recently as 2012 that manual plus two-and-a-half-axis CNC milling gave way to full 3D machining of plastic injection moulds on a 3-axis vertical machining centre (VMC) at family-run toolmaker and plastic injection moulding specialist Plasticom Group (www.plasticomgroup.com). Since that time the toolroom has undergone a transformation, with 2020 alone seeing investment of
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Featuring a generous working volume of 815 x 510 x 510 mm in a small 2.5 x 1.8 metre footprint on the shop floor, the new VC850- 5A is the latest prismatic metalcutting machine to be launched by German manufacturer Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik, whose factory is located near Munich. The 5-axis, vertical-spindle machining centre, which is
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Andover-based aluminium diecasting company MRT Castings uses robotic systems in its foundry, but until now automation has not featured in the company’s machine shop, apart from twin pallet change on machining centres from the Japanese manufacturer Brother, supplied through sole agent Whitehouse Machine Tools. That situation is due to change following an order placed by
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The sixth generation of ultra-high-precision turning centres from Spinner, Germany, which started manufacturing them in the 1950s, was for the first time presented on the manufacturer’s stand at the AMB 2018 show in Stuttgart (18 – 22 September). Available in the UK and Ireland through sole agent Whitehouse Machine Tools, the new Microturn lathe is
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Whitehouse Machine Tools has been appointed, with immediate effect, sole agent to sell and service in the UK and Ireland the full range of machine tools manufactured by WELE Mechatronic. You can view the complete WELE range here. Founded in 2007, the Taiwanese firm produces vertical and horizontal machining centres with X-axis strokes up to
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In medium volumes, there is little difference between the cost of producing machined castings in China and in the UK Zinc and aluminium high-pressure die casting specialist RD Castings has used Japanese-built, high-speed, twin-pallet machining centres from Brother since 1989 and currently has nine of them adding value to its products in two machine shops in
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