The manufacture of ventilator parts is driving demand for sliding-head lathes from Citizen Machinery.

For example, an existing customer in the West Country got in touch to say that a medical equipment OEM was requesting a fourfold increase in capacity to produce critical ventilator components. The subcontractor ordered two Cincom machines for urgent delivery. The first, a 32 mm capacity L32-XLFV, was installed two days later on 19 March. Citizen’s engineers worked around the clock to commission the machine so it could start making the ventilator parts. The second machine, a 20 mm bar capacity Cincom L20-VIIILFV, was installed on 27 March.
By then, in the space of a fortnight, Citizen had received further orders from another four customers for five more machines to be delivered at short notice for ventilator parts manufacture, and there is no sign of demand slowing.
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