New branding and model line up by Colchester-Harrison
EMO 2007 sees the world debut of a totally new range of vertical machining centres (VMC) and the first showing of new lathes and mill/turn centres from the Tornado and Alpha product lines brought together under the joint branding of Colchester-Harrison.
EMO 2007 sees the world debut of a totally new range of vertical machining centres (VMC) and the first time showing of new lathes and mill/turn centres from the Tornado and Alpha product lines brought together under the joint branding of Colchester-Harrison.
The all new Storm range of VMCs, represented by the top of the range SV 1100 and more general duty SP 1000, will be joined by the first international appearance of the heavy duty Tornado T4-HD and greatly enhanced T8MS and T8MSY mill/turn centres. The show is also being used for the first showing of the large capacity Alpha 1800XS-LB flat bed combination lathe and the new Alpha 1400XR combination lathe.
The addition of the new Storm range to the Colchester-Harrison machine tool portfolio provides a chance for visitors to see under power, the top of the range high performance Storm SV 1100. This machine is available with up to 15,000 revs/min spindle drive and up to 48 m/min rapid traverse.
Meanwhile, closely following the normal value for money philosophy of the product range, the new Storm SP 1000 is a general purpose subcontractor targeted machine providing all the advantages of a heavy duty deep column construction. The Storm machine has a 15 kW, 10,000 revs/min spindle with axis travels of 1,016 mm in X, 610 mm in Y and 6000 mm in Z. This machine also has the advantage of a combination of heavy duty box ways on the Z-axis and lower friction linear ways on X- and Y-axes.
The Tornado CNC slant bed range, with new guarding and livery moves the benchmarking target of performance to price ratio a step further with improved accuracy and metal removal power in the T4-HD heavy duty two-axis machine. The T4-HD lists a power increase of over 35 per cent to 15 kW.
The Tornado T8MS features the latest design of high rigidity Sauter 12 station disc-type turret and introduces the benefit from the doubling of the driven tool power to 10 kW and its maximum speed raised from 4,000 revs/min to 10,000 revs/min.
The Tornado T8MSY with + 40 mm Y-axis crossfeed to the turret is demonstrating in-cycle gear hobbing whilst upgraded software further enhances the unmanned ‘lights-out’ operation of the machine. Improvements encompass tool life management, sister tooling, production scheduling and in-process gauging. High pressure coolant systems up to 70 bar are now available.
Among the new Colchester-Harrison Alpha combination lathes under power, will be the launch of the 3 m bed, 800 mm swing 1800XS with 170 mm spindle bore, equipped with Parat four-way quick-change toolpost and made ready for a range of specialised rear boring toolposts and rear chucking. The machine has Ethernet link to the Alpha system – Fanuc based 21 iTB control. Also new, the Alpha 1400XR will demonstrate the latest Siemens 802D-SL control with Manual Plus software able to accomplish fast and simple program generation with the advantage of repeat cycles under CNC.
For further information, contact:
Mike Berry (Sales Director)
Tel: +44 (0) 1924 415010
Mike Wildish (Wildish Communications)
Tel: +44 (0) 1634 832221
