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News Release from: Precision-Optical Engineering
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Team on 16 October 2002
New lathe increases capacity for optics
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Precision-Optical Engineering (P-OE) has purchased a new CNC single point diamond turning lathe.
Precision-Optical Engineering (P-OE) has purchased a new CNC single point diamond turning lathe This new tool brings the total number of diamond turning lathes at P-OE's specialist optical production unit at Hitchin, UK to five, maintaining its position as one of the leading European facilities of its type
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Sales and Marketing Manager, Robin Addison, commented: "This is an exciting development for P-OE and the significant financial investment in the new tool reflects the steady growth in our business both in the military and commercial sectors.
Not only will the new lathe increase our capacity, but will also allow us greater flexibility in assigning different workloads to different tools, which will in turn improve delivery timescales to our customers".
P-OE's diamond turning facility can routinely produce complex non-spherical surfaces on a comprehensive range of optical materials and metal alloys.
Transmissive optics can be machined as aspheric, diffractive, hybrid and Fresnel lenses in germanium, zinc sulphide and selenide, silicon and acrylic (PMMA) and other plastics.
Reflective optics and mould tools can be machined in aluminium alloys, OFHC copper and copper alloys, brass and bronze and electroless nickel.
The new lathe will be installed in good time to contribute to the fulfilment of major new orders in the Autumn.
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