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News Release from: IEMCA Division, Igmi SpA
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 29 November 2000
IEMCA is Japan's choice for lathes
Everyone knows how difficult it is for producers from Italy, and from Europe in general, to sell in Japan. Yet Iemca has managed it with lathes.
Everyone knows how difficult it is for producers from Italy, and from Europe in general, to sell in Japan Yet Iemca has managed this, and continues to gain Japanese market share
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 16 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Miyano, for instance, Japan's main producer of small automatic fixed headstock lathes, has decided to install the SIR series on its six-spindle lathes.
Miyano has three factories at Ueda, Fukushima and Kitagami, in which its work-force of 460 turns out CNC automatic lathes for an annual turnover around 17 billion Yen.
Japan has good feeder producers of its own, but the Miyano engineers were impressed by the performance of the SIR machine seen at the Jimtof fair in 1996 and at the EMO exhibition which followed.
During the follow-up visit the Miyano engineers paid to Iemca, they were struck not only by the quality of the product, but also by the Faenza company's flexible approach, reflected in its willingness to change the PLC installed from Siemens to Omron at their request.
The first SIR 25/43P was installed in the Ueda factory in July 1999 and attracted extremely favourable comments: the SIR is designed, constructed and assembled to strict precision criteria and quality standards which make it more a machine tool in its own right than just a feeder.
So Miyano took the decision to adopt the Iemca SIR as standard feeder on its lathes.
The first Japanese customer to purchase the SIR feeder was Miyano's own leading customer for six-spindle lathes: Gifu-Kato S/S, with a work-force of 430 and 5 production facilities, where it produces automotive components such as ABS and transmissions.
After seeing the SIR 25 combined with the Miyano B6-16 lathe at first hand during the Nagoya machine tool fair in 1999, the Gifu-Kato S/S proprietor Mr Kato immediately ordered one.
Once he had checked that the feeder's potential came up to his expectations, Mr Kato decided to build a new production unit of the same width as the Miyano G6-26 lathe plus the SIR 32 feeder.
All this means there will be no room in the future for any except Iemca feeders, a statement of loyalty to the Italian firm.
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