In Baselworld Willemin-Macodel will unveil a world premiere - the new simultaneous 5-axis machining center type 408PA. This machine has been designed to machine parts of watch movements. The machine will be equipped for the machining on both sides of a watch base plate in one clamping. This method achieves unequalled accuracy compared to machines with partial and distributed machining on multiple points of production. To reduce costs and… The 408PA machine allows working with raw strips (…)

In our previous edition, we exclusively introduced the Tornos SwissNano machine (download it here). Since then, it has been unveiled for the first time at the Tornos open days in Moutier. We wanted to find out how it had been received by customers and hear about the results of this exhibition. Interview with Brice Renggli, marketing manager. "It was an exceptional success: We welcomed 340 visitors - a 30% increase on the previous year’s watchmaking days. We sold 25 machines in a week" (…)

Exciting news from LPKF’s process engineers: StencilLasers can now produce high-precision steps in solder paste stencils, given suitable process control. The process will be presented at SMT 2013 in Nuremberg by the Garbsen, Germany-based specialists in laser-based micromachining and is described in detail on the company’s website. A 110-µm step in a stainless steel foil of overall thickness 150 µm. The trend toward miniaturization in electronics is placing ever greater demands on (…)

“We put on a big spread for our visitors. Come visit us from May 22 to 24, 2013 in Rotkreuz. Take the opportunity to discover a representative sample of our wide range of high quality machine tools” says Pirmin Zehnder, CEO of Newemag. Kinematics of the new 10-axes turning center by Miyano: the BNA 42 GTY. Miyano BNA - 42 GTY - new: 10 axes and small footprint Visitors will be able to admire the Miyano BNA-42 GTY as European first. This new machine is designed with additional features for (…)

If the world of microtechnology is regularly under the spotlights by the arrival of novelties and business transformations, it is quite rare that a piece of news could change the competitive landscape in a radical way. This may well be a consequence of the strategic evolution of VFM Machines in Brügg (Switzerland). Meeting in the premises of the company with Mr. Natalino Valsangiacomo, one of the three founders and Mr. Roland Gutknecht who took over the management of the company at the (…)

Located in Hyderabad at the centre of India, the subsidiary of Schaublin Machines can count on three important advantages to offer its high-tech solutions to the market: 1) In the country, the Schaublin name is often synonymous with machine tool, it has become a generic name, 2) With more than 10’000 machines installed in India, the manufacturer is strongly implanted and 3) The company has a sales and service subsidiary, with local specialists and regional agents. The subsidiary was opened (…)

Willemin-Macodel is presenting the compact 5-axis machining centre 308B as "world premiere" at IDS in Cologne from March 12 to 16. This production tool offers outstanding flexibility thanks to its possibility to machine parts either from bars or in one-piece mode. The 308B machining centre for machining short bars or disks is the newest creation of Willemin-Macodel presented at IDS show. For hard material Requiring an extremely reduced floor space, the machine 308B allows machining of (…)

In 2011: Emissa won the innovation trophy at Industrie Lyon with its Twinturn 250. This turning centre works on two parts simultaneously using two powerful 15 kW motorspindles mounted in vertical position with alternate gangs of Piboturn patented turning tool holders. Machining of all drilling, milling and turning operations is performed simultaneously with a multiple head and on two parts at the same time At this year’s Industrie Lyon Emissa will unveil Twinturn 250 DD as world premiere. A (…)

It’s been a while since we announced this new machine designed for the watchmaking industry... and this morning we can say more about it! It will be unveiled at Tornos’ headquarter in the “Watchmaking days” from March 5 to 8. It is well known that design must bring together two aspects: aesthetics, which plays on emotional effect, and the practical aspects which work on both a rational and emotional level. Mr. Renggli, Tornos’ Marketing Manager, tells us: "We wanted to create a modern (…)

Studer produced the thousandth machine in its best-selling S33 series in the hundredth year since the company’s foundation. The Swiss celebrated this event during the sixteenth Indian Machine Tool Exhibition IMTEX, which took place between January 24th and 30th 2013 in Bangalore. Swiss Airbrush Champion Philipp Klopfenstein sprayed a special design onto the body of the 1000th Studer S33. Studer was the first to succeed in using several grinding wheels on one and the same machine, an "All (…)