“This result marks a sharp increase over the previous year,” said Gian Luca Giovanelli, MCM CEO, “particularly pleasing considering the favourable economic conditions we’re beginning to see which justifies our optimism for the future.”
2015’s performance sees 70% of revenues coming from exports and the rest from the Italian market. From a market sector perspective, energy, oil and gas, and aerospace are all seeing significant levels of growth. Farnborough will mark the beginning of a distribution partnership between MCM and Cheltenham-based tooling specialist Stocdon.
“The most significant sectors for MCM are increasingly those in which the customer’s production model requires high levels of flexibility combined with the usual expectations in terms of precision, productivity, and the reliability of our machines,” Mr Giovanelli explains.
“The forecasts see the growth trend continuing in 2016, with an expected turnover of more than €65 million due in part to orders from markets in which MCM is already present with its own technical and sales branches: USA, Germany, and China. To accommodate these growth levels, we’re investing in infrastructure, personnel, and technology.”
MCM’s 10,500m² plant in Vigolzone will be expanded to include a new 2,000m² production area of and an additional 400m² of office space. To facilitate effective communication between global sites, MCM is implementing new management software and a new PDM system. In addition, MCM will be expanding staff levels by 10%; currently it employs 240 people.
At Farnborough 2016, on stand A90 in hall 3, MCM will showcase the best of its product range – multi-process machining centres that combine turning, milling, grinding, and cutting operations and flexible automation systems, integrated and optimised via its control and supervision software jFMX, specially developed by MCE, MCM’s software and computer architecture division.
Exemplifying the underlying concept of MCM’s integrated offer are the machines and solutions the company showcased at EMO 2015: a 5-axis tilting head i.Tank machining centre; a 4-axis Clock Dynamic 700 machining centre; and a robotised deburring island.
During EMO, the company offered visitors the opportunity to see first-hand its two aerospace cells within the Vigolzone facility.
The first cell is for the production of wheels and brake systems. MCM has created a flexible system for the turning, milling and drilling of wheels and hydraulic and electric crowns, consisting of two i.Tank 1600 multi-tasking machining centres with a horizontal axis turning spindle, installed within an FMS line, and a third machine currently being built.
The second plant is for the production of discs in nickel super-alloy for aircraft engines. This is an FMS comprising two i.Tank 1300 multi-tasking machining centres for milling and turning operations on a horizontal axis, equipped with a splitter group and a series of options that significantly customise configuration and performance. The plant will incorporate another four machines in 2016, and an important programmed extension in 2017.
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