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JHE adds more mill-turning productivity
06 Mar 2008
Aerospace machining specialist John Huddleston Engineering (JHE) has installed a fourth Nakamura-Tome WT-300 twin-spindle, twin-turret turning centre at its Blackpool facility. As with JHE’s three existing WT-300s this will be used to produce complex mill-turned components such as locking pins and wheel nuts from hardened and tempered high strength steels.
“The benefit that the Nakamura machines give us is that, as far as possible, we are able to produce a finished product on the machine in a single hit without any manual intervention,” says JHE’s Group Operations Director Ian Gibson.
The WT-300’s milling capabilities are an important factor in this, as components are often machined in the fully hardened and tempered condition. “You have to have a lot of power to be able to do that kind of work,” says Ian.
He says that JHE’s three existing WT-300s have been so successful that they are now working at full capacity, hence the need for a fourth machine.
“Having successfully taken up all the capacity on our WT-300 machines we wanted to invest in further capacity that we could bring to the marketplace. This investment is an extension of what we were already doing and, with the addition of a fourth identical machine, it gives us even more flexibility.”
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