Ohio Tool Works (OTW), a specialist honing machine tool, tooling and bore-finishing application company, has added Mollart Engineering to its worldwide distribution network.

The new agency brings a further dimension to Mollart’s deep-hole drilling portfolio, in particular for bore-finishing tool supply. Mollart’s managing director Ian Petitt says: “Our appointment will not only broaden our deep-hole drilling product range, but expand our customer support capability across the finishing of bores and deep holes through standard and customised honing abrasive tool supply.”
For further information www.mollart.com

The recently launched office of the Small Business Commissioner is offering a free service to help small firms deal with late payments.

Based in Birmingham, the office was created to ensure fair payment practices for Britain’s 5.7 million small businesses and support them in resolving their payment disputes with larger companies. Established under the Enterprise Act 2016, the SBC is headed by the Small Business Commissioner Paul Uppal, and is part of a package of measures to tackle late payment practices between businesses across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
For further information www.smallbusinesscommissioner.gov.uk

In line with its expansion strategy, which has seen year-on-year sales increases exceeding 15% over the past five years, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) has appointed applications engineer Gary Murrey to its growing team.

He will support the sales efforts of northern area technical sales engineers, Jason Clark and Gary Heaney. Murrey has almost 30 years of experience that includes an apprenticeship as a machinist at shipbuilder Vosper Thornycroft and lengthy periods as a five-axis machinist and programmer with GE Aviation. He was also a production and applications engineer with the 600 Group and a senior manufacturing engineer at VTL.
For further information www.itc-ltd.co.uk

A turn-mill centre with an upper B-axis spindle having a ±150 mm Y axis and an optional lower BMT turret with the possibility of a ±40 mm Y axis and live tooling and has been introduced by DMG Mori for the bar machining of components up to 1.5 m long and 102 mm diameter.

The 675 mm X-axis travel of the CompactMaster direct-drive milling spindle, which is just 350 mm long, adds to the versatility of the new NTX 3000 second-generation multi-tasking centre. Also featured is a tool magazine with 38 stations (114 optional), tool-breakage monitoring and integral tool measurement.
DMG Mori’s NTX 3000 is capable of simultaneous five-axis CNC machining, yet occupies a footprint of just 16.5 sq m. The main spindle can produce rotational speeds up to 3000 rpm and offers a maximum torque of 1194 Nm. A counter-spindle is optional for machining on all six faces of a component, while a tailstock may also be specified.
A machine bed with roller guideways is designed to offer high process stability and flexibility. In addition, water cooling of the spindles, ballscrews and ball nuts ensures thermal stability in continuous operation, while magnetic-scale feedback of linear position to a resolution of 0.01 µm is a further option, as is a range of automated workpiece handling systems.
The NTX 3000 is equipped with the proprietary CELOS app-based control and user interface to either a Siemens or Fanuc CNC system. The 21”, multi-touch CELOS display works as an Industry 4.0 interface, providing the basis for cross-company networking. Various DMG Mori technology cycles are available, including ‘easy tool monitoring’, which monitors spindle load and axis thrust.
For further information www.dmgmori.com