Mills CNC has recently supplied precision subcontract specialist, Nortim Precision Engineering, with two FANUC-controlled multi-tasking turning centres from DN Solutions.

The machines, a 12” chuck Puma 3100LSY and an 8” chuck Lynx 2100LSYB – both equipped with sub spindle, Y axis and driven tooling capabilities – were installed at the company’s 7000 sq ft machine shop facility in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire earlier this year.

Since installation, the two lathes have been put through their paces machining a range of high-precision, complex components.

Explains Jon Kemper, Nortim’s manufacturing director: “Mills always seems to have the right specification machines we’re looking for, and can often deliver and install them, from stock, in double-quick time.”

At the start of the year, Nortim Precision was facing a dilemma. An existing bathing and care equipment customer approached Nortim to ask if it could take on extra and regular work machining precision cylindrical parts for its range of height-adjustable baths. However, the cylinder length was beyond Nortim’s existing capacity

Lee Marner, Nortim engineering’s director, takes up the story: “We could see that the 12” chuck/102 mm bar capacity Puma 3100LSY with its 1285 mm maximum turning length and 420 mm maximum turning diameter would be the ideal machine to handle the project.”

Rather than opt for a two-axis version of the Puma 3100L series, the multi-tasking, mill-turn capabilities of the Puma 3100LSY were a key selling point.

With Nortim Precision reaping the productivity benefits from its first multi-tasking lathe, the company decided to invest in a compact multi-axis lathe to handle a majority of its smaller part processing requirements. The answer? A DN Solutions Lynx 2100LSY lathe, an 8” chuck/65 mm capacity lathe with sub spindle, Y axis and driven tools

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