Taking advantage of new export opportunities has seen a Middlesex manufacturer invest more than £300,000 in a new high-speed precision stamping press line.Eden Ltd, a specialist in optical air-blown fibre and cables fittings for the global telecommunication industry, renewed a 35-year working relationship with Bruderer UK to place the order for the BSTA 180-36B press, fitted with the latest high-speed precision servo feeder.

The machine is already delivering greater accuracies, with Bruderer UK’s quick lift-ram technology – that dynamically adjusts bottom dead centre position whilst in operation – meaning the business can guarantee process stability and part quality to customers regardless of the volumes required.

“A pre-owned Bruderer BSTA 30 was one of the first machines I bought when I started the business back in 1993,” explained Dave Hawkins, chairman of Eden.“It’s given us tremendous service and reliability, so when we were looking to advance our press shops technology to make parts ten times quicker to compete with Far East competition, there was only one investment I was going to make and the new Bruderer press is going to be fantastic for us.”

He continues: “We’ve seen demand increase significantly since lockdown, as we’re one of the few companies worldwide that control all elements of manufacturing in-house. We haveinvested some £1.5m over the past 18 months, culminating in the acquisition of the high-speed precision press.”

The Bruderer UK technical team worked with Eden to spec the BSTA 180-36B to its exact requirements, adding a high-speed precision BSV75 servo feeder (including automatic material thickness adjustment) and other options to help accelerate tool development, tool changeovers and the efficiency of the whole process.
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