Manchester-based 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. The Japanese-built, high-speed, twin-pallet machines were installed in January 2012 by UK agent,Read more
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9 May, 2012
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 andRead more
26 April, 2012
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 startedRead more
