Sustainable manufacturing

Kyocera (Stand F12/G11, Hall 2) is exhibiting various new cutting tools for industrial machining, including the MFH Boost for high-feed milling up to 2.5 mm maximum depth of cut, new PCD tools for the electric vehicle market and new aerospace solutions. In view of a rapidly changing world and new challenges, Kyocera is expanding its portfolio of tools with an even more economic and sustainable approach. Thanks to new coating technologies, users can prolong tool life, while newly developed hybrid substrates, like latest cermet grades, can reduce the usage of carbide.

For further information
www.kyocera.co.uk

Panel bender

Salvagnini (Stand E07, Hall 5) will show its P2-2120 panel bender featuring the new CUT option to sequentially cut one or more profiles starting from a single notched sheet with different lengths. The new CUT option includes: a CUT blade, which lies on top of the lower bending blade of the P2 to make the separation cut of the bent profile; a cutting tool with a fixed composition that acts as the upper cutting blade; and a conveyor that transfers the cut part to the automatic shutter for manual extraction. Parts are made in multiples as they are associated on the same strip of material, which is bent and cut in a single process. This optimisation helps to increase overall process efficiency. In terms of feasibility, the CUT tool is advantageous for parts that are too small or too narrow for bending on a press brake.

For further information
www.salvagninigroup.com

Upgraded Machine Spotter website now live

MTI (Stand E16, Hall 3) is constantly seeking ways to better support its advertisers and users. Over the past six months the company has been investing heavily in further enhancing its market-leading Machine Spotter platform for buying and selling machine tools.

The upgraded site is now notably faster and easier to use. Furthermore, simplified navigation means users can reach machine details in just three clicks, an ethos that formed the basis of the enhanced platform’s development. Additional features include enriched functionality using the latest technology and language. Machine Spotter is the world’s best search engine for machine tools, with thousands of machines available 24/7.

MTI is also busy at EMO distributing printed copies of its show issue direct from the stand. Why not call by and pick up a copy from one of the company’s friendly team.

For further information
www.machinespotter.com www.mtimagazine.com

Flexible production solutions for electromobility

Highly flexible and productive grinding and turning processes for electromobility – this is the claim EMAG is making from Stand A32/B17 in Hall 4. Among other things, the focus is on the G 250 machine from EMAG SU (formerly Samputensili). With this solution, it is possible to produce axle drive gears, gear wheels and shafts with a maximum length of 550 mm cost-effectively by either generating or profile grinding. If required, very small profile grinding wheels or generating grinding worms can also be used, which ensures maximum flexibility and productivity in manufacturing.

For further information
www.emag.com

Nakamura machine boosts Kirkham

Founded in 1955, Skelmersdale-based Kirkham Engineering has established a reputation as a specialist in the production of repetition turned parts on CNC fixed-head and sliding-head machines. With decades of experience and a machine inventory supplied by a host of manufacturers down the generations, the latest machine to be installed is a Nakamura Tome AS-200L turning centre from the Engineering Technology Group (ETG).

The Nakamura AS-200-LMYSF follows a previous AS-200L acquisition from ETG that arrived in 2017.

Financial director Barry Lynam says: “The AS-200-LMYSF can be set-up extremely quickly and this gives us flexibility for small batch runs of fast turnaround parts. It can respond far quicker than our more complex machines. The machine has a large work envelope in a small footprint and is extremely robust, which is perfect for heavy-duty cutting.”

Supplied as a complete package by ETG, the AS-200-LMYSF arrived with tooling, a Hydrafeed MSV-65 bar feed (plus BSU bar support unit to give 1.5 m) and a swarf conveyor, making the machine ready-to-run on the day it arrived. The machine has a maximum turning diameter of 280 mm with a maximum through-spindle bar diameter of 65 mm.

“We already have highly capable twin-spindle and twin-turret machines, but we wanted something that had a smaller footprint and was faster to program and get up and running – the AS-200L fitted the bill,” says Lynam. “Unlike the larger machines, the AS-200-LMYSF is the latest-generation machine with the new FANUC CNC and NT Machine Simulation and NT Collision Guard from Nakamura Tome. This allows us to rapidly program and simulate our components, and run the first part with confidence and speed.”

For further information
www.engtechgroup.com