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News Release from: Citizen Machinery UK
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 March 2002
Unicut Precision orders more from NC
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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.
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 The machine order, which includes the 2000lb/in2 Cool Blaster programmable high pressure coolant system, follows the highly successful retrofit of Cool Blaster to a new M32 ordered at EMO 2002 and installed in December
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Over the last two years directors of Unicut Precision, Jason Nicholson and Charles Kenny have spent over GBP 1.3 million to re-equip their small turned parts subcontract shop with Citizen machines.
The Citizen line-up, to which the new M32 will be added in April includes four Citizen B12s, two L32s, an L20, M20 and the recently installed M32.
Says Kenny: "The market has shifted to demand higher quality mill/turned parts, produced in difficult materials, in a single machining cycle and with very short lead times, for which the M-Series of Citizens is ideal.
Since the M20 and M32s have been installed", he maintains, "we are able to meet daily call-offs of components from customers and machine, pack, despatch and invoice.
There are no longer bottlenecks in workflow due to secondary machining operations as we are combining between two and five operations into one cycle giving us almost zero work in progress".
With the Cool Blaster high pressure coolant system retrofitted to the M32, Unicut has been able to immediately cut cycle times by 12% on one particular highly complex stainless steel part which uses some 22 tools to produce.
All swarf control problems have disappeared and speeds and feeds increased resulting in improved tool life. Request free introductory details about products from Citizen Machinery UK ...
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