J&S Suprema grinder fits the bill at Bowmill

At its new Tewkesbury manufacturing plant dedicated to the production of Airbus landing gear kits, Bowmill Engineering has installed a Jones & Shipman Suprema Easy cylindrical grinder as part of its multi-million pound machine tool investment programme that includes eight new machining centres and high levels of automation throughout. The factory in Tewkesbury replicates a similar bespoke facility at Bowmill’s headquarters in Poole.

Nick Epps is the managing director of Bowmill and when it came to specifying the grinding machine, he admits a particular affinity with Jones & Shipman: “I’m a time-served toolmaker by trade and a good deal of my apprenticeship was undertaken using J&S manual machines. Here at Bowmill we operate three J&S machines in Poole, while a sister company – Taymar Precision Grinding – also operates a number of J&S machines.
“The Jones & Shipman Suprema Easy is a multi-purpose machine that is known as an ‘all-rounder’ being equally adept at processing high-volume production grinding work or fulfilling high-precision, small batch quantities and one-off work as encountered in environments such as ours,” he continues.
Bowmill has identified nine critical Class 1 kit components that require grinding tolerance finishes – retaining pins, uplock pins and spacers. Some are chrome-plated – a grinding challenge in itself – but all grinding programmes are stored in the memory of the machine’s Easy graphical software which offers a real advantage with its speed of set-up for dressing and grinding cycles utilising touchscreen technology.
Bowmill’s machine has a 650 mm grinding capacity between centres, although longer 1000 and 1500 mm capacities are available.
For further information www.jonesshipman.com

El Marakby trusts again in SMS group

After the successful commissioning of a new melt shop and caster supplied by SMS group in 2012, El Marakby Steel, based in 6th of October City, Egypt has awarded the same technology vendor an order for a new rolling mill capable of producing bar and wire rod. The new mini mill will be designed for the manufacture of straight rebars and wire rod coils, and will enable El Marakby to expand its product portfolio and meet increased domestic demand.

El Marakby’s mill will be designed to produce at a capacity of 400,000 tons per year, taking advantage of a hot connection with the existing caster. Starting with square 130 mm billets, and heated to temperature by a 70 ton per hour modern pusher furnace, the mill will be able to produce rebars from 10 to 32 mm and wire rod coils from 5.5 to 12 mm.
For further information www.sms-group.com

Experience adds value at XYZ

A recent run of long-service awards at XYZ Machine Tools highlights the value of people to a successful business. Out of the 80 employees at XYZ, 30 of them have a combined service of almost 500 years. “Our philosophy has always been that when a customer commits to buying from XYZ, we commit to supporting that customer,” says Nigel Atherton, managing director. “This support ranges from our applications and training teams, which get customers up and running, through to the free programming helpline for users of our ProtoTrak and Siemens controlled machines, as well as the spares and service back-up that we provide with our nationwide team of engineers.”

Recognising that the pool of skilled machine tool builders was getting smaller, XYZ implemented a training plan two years ago that has seen a number of new recruits join the business, including several apprentices who will eventually take up the mantle of applications, programming support and service engineers over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
For further information www.xyzmachinetools.com

Oil & gas sector eagerly awaits ADIPEC

Described as the world’s most influential meeting point for oil and gas professionals, this year’s edition of ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition & Conference) is set to take place on 13-16 November. The show is expected to attract more than 100,000 trade professionals from over 135 countries, and over 2200 exhibiting companies, providing visitors a direct route to the world’s most advanced technologies.

Visitors will be able to explore thousands of products and services from 53 countries and 27 international pavilions. The show will provide an opportunity to network with resource owners from around the world who are looking to partners to help them get the most from their assets through operational excellence, cost effectiveness and profitability. In addition, the 2017 Technical Conference Programme, organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), will provide delegates with a comprehensive learning experience covering 119 sessions with over 900 speakers
For further information www.adipec.com/visreg

ETG gets a grip on clamping

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