At the next EMO in Mailand, Tornos will unveil in world première its new loading system on multispindle lathe, the "chucker" in version 2009. This solution allowing customers to work with sintered, casted and forged parts will open widely the spectrum of possible parts machined on a multispindle lathe. A growing trend In some cases, using the "chucker" solution is far more interesting to machine parts. The sharp increase in the price of materials means that ways to reduce scrap to a (…)

I went to visit Applications Ultrasons in Switzerland and I learned a lot about cleaning, ultrasonic, and about what clean can mean too! You’ll be able to discover a full article on a further issue of Eurotec but for now, let’s dig into cleanliness! What do you mean by cleanliness? Mr Pastore, CEO and Mr Margaroli, Sales and Logistic manager with Applications Ultrasons are sure of one thing, cleanliness means a lot for everyone. The only important point is to share the aim. Basically, we (…)

In high precision turning, depending on the machine’s equipment, tool positions may be lacking for performing end operations. This can be the case for both spindle and counter-spindle machining. Wide product range In its product range, the Swiss manufacturer Applitec proposes tool holders that provide an answer to this problem. François Champion, Sales Manager, tells us: " These tool holders are very simple and meet a very specific demand. But they go even further, providing other benefits (…)

Over 2’000 visitors from Germany and throughout Europe, including groups from Japan, Korea, Russia, Israel, China and Thailand, attended the traditional in-house exhibition of Hermle AG in Gosheim earlier this spring. First presentation The flexible RS 4 production system RS 4 combines an industrial robot, a pallet magazine and one or even two 5-axis machining centres in a single production system. The 1000-kg transport weight of the robot is very high and offers the pre-conditions for (…)

Renowned machine tools builder in the watchmaking field for 15 years, Witech launched this year a new range of machines dedicated to produce dental prosthesis. The manufacturer doesn’t let watchmaking aside insofar as a novelty for this field of activity will be launched this year. The company aims high and is looking for agents in Germany. Ambitious aims If today Witech produces approximately 40 to 50 machines per year, Mr Meunier, Head of sales, doesn’t hide his ambitions for the future. (…)

Commercial promotion work for the 26th BIEMH, International Machine-tool Biennial (Bilbao), has begun. Scheduled to take place on May 31- June 5 next year, the event and will be marked by its crucial timing in terms of the repercussions of the economic crunch for the commercial and technological development of capital goods manufacturers. Spain works for success As joint organisers of BIEMH 2010, the Spanish Association of Machine-tool Manufacturers and the Bilbao Exhibition Centre have (…)

New Website Helps People Decide Which Metal Cutting Method is Right for Them! Hypertherm, the specialist in plasma arc metal cutting technology, today announced a new website designed to help people understand the differences between plasma and oxyfuel cutting technology so they can decide which cutting method is right for them. Added value website The website found at www.plasmavsoxyfuel.com is available in several languages and contains a series of educational articles that cover the (…)

To understand how to transform precious metal into high precision parts dedicated to implant dentistry and other fields of activities, we met M Pascal Rickli, CEO of Rickly Micromécanique SA, a company located in Vauffelin, a few kilometers from Bienne (Switzerland). Everything in this ultra modern company is designed to reach outstanding results. Why precious metals? In implant dentistry several techniques divide the market, single-implant that sees every tooth with its own implant or (…)

GrindTec 2010: Further internationalisation of the European meeting for this sector foreseen. The new exhibition hall creates optimal conditions for targeted further development. International show For the GrindTec it has now become almost „Business as usual“. It was already the sixth consecutive time that the leading forum for grinding technology increased both the figures for exhibitors and those for visitors. 11,070 visitors (+ 19 %) and 355 exhibitors (+ 22 %) are the current (…)

In the field of control, we saw a certain tendency to centralization in the 1990s and the development of quality assurance. If this evolution has certainly led to more quality, it has also shown the limits of the completely centralized controlling dept. i.e. bottleneck effects, loss of time and responsibility. Today, it is common to see a centralized control associated with controls in the workshops. Marcel Aubert AG is specialised in providing such solutions. Meeting in Bienne (Switzerland) (…)