Tooling up

 

The Banbury-based company has invested more than £1.6 million in new machinery, which includes the acquisition of two new Mori Seiki NTX mill/turn machines which are being used to machine electronic and gearbox products, including transducer shafts.

Norbar Torque has also invested in two Gleason CNC gear shaping machines which are being used to generate gear components for the company's hand torque and powered torque multipliers.

Martin Reynolds, the company's manufacturing manager commented: “The investment in the Mori Seiki machines supports our existing turning centre and mill/turn capacity. Since the machines were installed and put to work we have seen a 45-60% improvement in cycle times over existing machine processes.”

He continued: “In addition, the investment in new Gleason machines is in line with our program to modernise our gear generation facilities. We are confident that both of these investments will make a significant impact on our production capacity and ever increasing demand for quality in our products.”

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