Mollart Engineering will use EMO Hannover to build on its success in North America for deep hole drilling applications in the automotive sector by installing an Omnisprint LD6-750, 3-axis, 6-spindle special purpose gundrilling centre on stand B05.
After the exhibition, the machine will then be delivered to its North American customer as part of Mollart’s $3 million contract for five machines which are currently in the 2017 build programme.
Sales director Ian Petitt says: “Automotive transmission manufacturers worldwide and in particular in Europe, are trending towards hydraulic automatic multi-gear (9 and10 speed) variants which will require major investments in deep hole drilling capabilities.
“As a result, we will exhibit the latest Omnisprint that combines well-proven technology with a reputation for reliability and maintaining spindle uptime, an important factor in our winning the American contract against both local and European machine tool builders.”
The Omnisprint knee-type gundrill centre on the stand, which also has the capability for off-centre line drilling, has a highly flexible configuration for build with a drilling capacity between 2mm and 22mm by 750mm hole depth. There are also variants with one, two and four spindles, 500mm and 1,000mm drilling depths, 4- and 5-axis pallet shuttle plus bespoke automation packages. Each machine utilises Fanuc 35i control and drives packages.
“We have had very good levels of success and long-term interest from EMO in the past and especially from the automotive, aerospace, plastic mould, medical, animal feed and oil and gas sectors. While we are price competitive, it is the application development and the involvement with our tooling partner Botek, which will feature on our stand as well as having its own booth (Hall 4, Stand B74) that has helped to create long term customer support,” Mr Petitt adds.
Mollart will also be promoting its subcontract operations at Chessington and Resolven in South Wales which specialise in multi-axis machining, deep hole drilling, and clean room assembly. Meanwhile, the newly formed fabrication facility, which also produces coolant filtration and swarf management systems for the machine tool build operation, will be represented.
Mollart Engineering
www.mollart.com
Hall 16, Stand B05
