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Citizen offers adaptive guide bush for CNC lathes

Citizen has developed an adaptive guide bushing (AGB) solution, which is intended to enable the use of a cheaper bright bar instead of the normal ground or specially prepared bar material.

News from Engineeringtalk, 28 September 2009

30th anniversary open house yields 12 CNC orders

During the three days of the NC Engineering October open house, which also marked the company's 30th trading year when 100 companies visited the Watford showroom resulting in 12 orders.

News from Engineeringtalk, 4 November 2004

Compact lathe does front and back at once

Citizen's latest twin-spindle Boley BC42-X2 fixed headstock precision lathe can simultaneously machine the front and back of a workpiece.

News from Engineeringtalk, 8 July 2002

New lathe raises performance stakes for S Smith

By upgrading from an Ikegai TUR 25 to the latest TUR 26 mill-turn centre, S Smith (Cowley) has been able to increase productivity by 50%.

News from Engineeringtalk, 24 June 2002

Sliding head technology pays off for Tefloturn

Investing in second-hand Citizen machines has allowed Tefloturn s to move forward quickly.

News from Engineeringtalk, 27 May 2002

Do you take this lathe?

Sue and Ian Gaskell spent their honeymoon at the MACH 2002 exhibition and bought themselves a GBP 140,000 wedding present of the latest 13-axis, Citizen M16 CNC sliding head automatic lathe.

News from Engineeringtalk, 16 May 2002

Lathe cycles can be optimised offline

Offline programming software not only improves productivity through reduced changeover times, it allows machining cycles to be optimised while the machine is still in production.

News from Engineeringtalk, 18 April 2002

Coolant system transforms small part turning

By retrofitting a Cool Blaster high-pressure coolant system to its new Citizen M32 CNC sliding head automatic lathe, Unicut Precision has reduced cycle time and improved tool life.

News from Engineeringtalk, 2 April 2002

Unicut Precision orders more from NC Engineering

Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden city has ordered a top-of-the-range Citizen M32 CNC sliding headstock automatic lathe from NC Engineering of Watford.

News from Engineeringtalk, 11 March 2002

Automatic lathe bridges productivity gap

Part of a new generation of sliding head automatic lathes, the Citizen C16 has 22 tool positions, 10,000 revs/min main and secondary spindles and can accommodate up to 3 tools cutting simultaneously

News from Engineeringtalk, 19 July 2001

CNC automatic combines speed and versatility

The Citizen M20 is able to carry up to 80 tools on its 10, all-driven position turret, five turning tools and three rotary tools on a gang tool post and three rotary tools on its third tooling slide

News from Engineeringtalk, 13 April 2001

New lathes help meet high demand for torque tools

To help address stringent delivery promises, Torqueleader torque control product maufacturer MHH Engineering invested in two Citizen sliding head lathes

News from Engineeringtalk, 21 February 2001

Michell sensor speeds up maintenance of RH devices

Michell Instruments has introduced the I7000 Hygrosmart humidity sensor, which is claimed to make the maintenance of the company's relative-humidity (RH) instruments quick and simple with no downtime.
Sensonics installs vibration and speed monitors

Sensonics, a condition monitoring specialist, has supplied and installed DN26 series vibration and speed monitors for Shanghai Boasteel, an iron and steel company in China.