Turning technology
The empire strikes back
Founded in 2007 with an initial investment in three sliding head turning centres, Empire Manufacturing Ltd is a company that has gone from strength to strength. Moving to a larger facility and subsequently added more sliding head turning centres, with machining centres, measuring equipment and fixed head turning centres to follow. More recently, the company has invested in machine tools from Dugard.
In 2022, the company made a paradigm shift in vendors when it bought a fixed head SMEC SL2000-BSY turning centre with a barfeed unit, a Robojob robot loader and a Roto-Rack parts catcher. This order was rapidly followed by a Hanwha XD10 sliding head lathe from Dugard. This has since been followed by yet another Hanwha sliding head machine.
As an established sliding head turning shop machining a vast range of products from washers, nuts and bolts, as well as fastenings and bottle tops through to highly complex and intricate components, the Hertfordshire company wanted to increase its capacity for machining small components. To alleviate a bottleneck on an existing 10mm capacity sliding head turning
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