As a manufacturer and distributor of earthing materials and lightning protection equipment, products from Kingsmill Industries are used across a wide range of construction projects. The Pinxton, Derbyshire-based business is seeing significant growth driven by the booming construction sector in the Middle East and, with the majority of its products manufactured in-house, Kingsmill needed to increase production and productivity, and turned to XYZ for help.

Turning was a priority as a replacement was needed for an ageing CNC lathe. Here, an XYZ Compact Turn 52 with an optional LNS barfeed proved to be a good solution. The Compact Turn 52 provides 52 mm bar capacity, a 20 hp/5000 rpm spindle and a Siemens 828D ShopTurn control. The gains that Kingsmill Industries sought were immediately realised with cycle times being cut by 50% compared with the machine it replaced.
“We have a wide range of components that make up our products, and batch sizes can be quite large, so the barfeed fitted to the XYZ lathe is perfect,” says production manager Ashley Jones. “We are confident that we can leave the machine running for extended periods unmanned, with just the occasional intervention to check tolerances and empty the swarf bin. We find the Siemens control extremely user-friendly and the combination of control, machine and barfeed means that the XYZ CT52 gives us what we needed at a price we were happy to pay.”
The XYZ Compact Turn is the second XYZ machine at Kingsmill Industries as the company also has an SMX 2500 bed mill to help manage its milling requirements.
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