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Renthal, a world leading producer of accessories for motorcycles and mountain bikes, is changing its rear chainwheel (sprocket) manufacturing process from CNC drilling followed by a sequence of manual operations to virtually one-hit production on a pair of Brother machining centres

German machine tool builder, Spinner, will display 20 machines on its largest ever, 5000 m2 stand at this year’s EMO exhibition in Hannover. There will be 11 CNC lathes and nine milling centres including five different 5-axis machines. One will be a new, entry-level, vertical machining centre, called U5-620 Compact, according to Whitehouse Machine Tools,
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In the past year, a new name in metalcutting equipment has come to the fore in the UK since Whitehouse Machine Tools, Kenilworth, took over the sole sales and service agency for Spinner Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik GmbH, near Munich. It gives British manufacturers the option of buying top quality, European-built machines at prices that are more competitive
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Plymouth subcontractor, Morris Engineering, was faced with either losing an aerospace contract, quite possibly to an overseas supplier, or finding a way of manufacturing the components much less expensively. The resulting value engineering exercise, which involved investing in an additional Brother vertical machining centre, was so successful that cycle time and labour overhead were both
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Workpieces up to half a tonne can be machined to very high precision in a nominal half-metre cube. Tried and tested designs and components used by leading global machine tool manufacturers have been selected by Averex Automation, Taichung (www.averexcnc.com), to produce the Akari HS-450i horizontal-spindle machining centre (HMC). By selecting only the best constituents and
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The versatility of Brother high-speed machining centres has helped Suffolk die casting specialist, RD Castings, to diversify from over-reliance on supplying the yellow goods sector, which proved volatile during the recent downturn. Whereas the company used only to machine its own zinc and aluminium high-pressure die castings, during the second half of 2009 it started
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