At the machine tool world exhibition EMO in Hannover from 19 to 24 September 2011, the LNS Group will introduce innovative bar feeders to the market. The successor of the Express 332 series will combine the best elements of the Sprint and Express series and convince with improved rigidity and flexibility. "We redesigned the Express 332 from the ground up, but kept its philosophy and all the features that made this bar feeder so successful", says Carlos Muniz, LNS Global Product Manager Bar (…)

The problem of swarf management is a familiar one and in the case of precious metals the constraints are even greater than for standard materials. With the value of gold at more than 42,000 CHF per kilo and maximum waste tolerance at no more than 2 per cent, producers are having to find ever more sophisticated solutions to recover as much of the material as possible to avoid paying for “waste”. While swarf management is by no means a source of value added in production runs, the operation (…)