Located on the Ballymote Business Park in County Sligo, Ireland, Mito Precision Engineering provides a toolroom service to manufacturers in the medical device and automotive industries, as well as jigs and fixtures to the medical and pharmaceutical sectors. Since the company’s establishment by Malachy Towey and Michael Taheny in 2010, manufacturing capacity has steadily expanded and now encompasses surface grinding and EDM, in addition to turning and milling. Mito Precision mainly sources the latter machines from preferred supplier Hurco.

In total, the company operates 11 Hurco CNC machining centres and two Hurco CNC lathes. They range from early models of the compact VM10 milling centre to a TM8i turning centre purchased last year and the latest investment, a VMX42HSi vertical machining centre with 20,000 rpm HSK63A spindle. The combination of straightforward programming, robustness and high power make Hurco machine tools suitable for manufacturing one-off, often complex parts in tool steel or stainless steel.

Mito now has three different model variations of the Hurco VMX42. This 1-m X-axis machine offers 610 mm of Y-axis travel and the same in Z plus a table load capacity of 1750 kg, allowing the company to produce large mould tools. Recent design enhancements mean that direct drives are provided in X, Y and Z, and roller guideways support all axes for precise, rigid dynamics. The machine cabinet has full washdown in addition to the spindle coolant ring, while chip evacuation is via a swarf conveyor.

Attention to detail in the tools it supplies and ongoing investment in new machinery and technology underpin success at Mito Precision.

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