First UK sale of jointly developed DMG / MORI SEIKI machine

The vertical milling, drilling and tapping centre, which made its British debut at the show, is the first machine tool to be developed jointly by DMG, Germany and MORI SEIKI, Japan, which are close to completing their worldwide manufacturing and sales partnership.

Premier Mould's first DMG machine was a DMC 1035V 3-axis vertical machining centre. It was purchased in December 2011 as part of a continuing upgrade of the Teesside company's prismatic machining capacity, which extends to 2.5 metres in X. Production of large aluminium plastic-injection moulds for the automotive and energy sectors is a particular specialism. So also are reverse engineering, manufacture of prototypes and small batch production.

Mr Eley commented, While mould / die work and small runs will continue to be a core part of our activities, it is our intention to move more strongly into high volume production work.

About a third of our business is 24/7 machining of components in batches of up to 10,000-off in materials ranging from plastics to titanium.

The MILLTAP 700 will strengthen this side of the business, but will also assist in mouldmaking by increasing the efficiency with which we can machine electrodes for our spark eroders.

Notable qualities of the 700 x 420 x 380 mm capacity MILLTAP 700 are acceleration at 16 m/s² to linear axis feed rates of 60 m/min; high speed tool change that delivers a chip-to-chip time of 1.5 seconds; Siemens 840D solutionline control; and overall energy consumption 30 per cent lower than that of other tapping centres.