Manufacturing Machinery World January 2024

VISIT SOUTHERN NEXT MONTH FOR ALL THE LATEST
IN PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
Between 6th and 8th February, the UK's most
important annual engineering trade show,
Southern Manufacturing & Electronics, will
entice more than 9,000 people through the
doors at the Farnborough International
Exhibition & Conference Centre, if the
attendance in recent years is anything to go
by. This year will be especially international,
as there has been an upsurge in stand
bookings by overseas manufacturers and
service providers.
Numerous machine tool companies will
be at the show to support its mechanical
engineering side, which is separate from but
intrinsically interlinked with the electronic
companies around the showground. Ajax
Machine Tools will promote its 3- and 4-axis
vertical and horizontal machining centres
and borers, 2-, 3- and 4-axis CNC slant-bed
lathes, surface, cylindrical and bench
grinding machines, and bench, pillar and
radial drilling machines.
Bruderer will be on hand to explain the
advantages of its high-precision stamping
presses, both new and preowned, and its
press shop automation and ancillary
equipment. Chester Machine Tools will offer
CNC and conventional machine tools from a
portfolio that includes its own-brand
platforms, plus Brierley grinding, polishing
and linishing machines, Kitchen & Walker
drilling machines, and Astra lathes, mills and
saws.
Colchester Machine Tool Solutions will be
showcasing an all-new product line-up at the
show, led by Storm vertical machining
centres, which offer variants with linear
guideways or box ways. 2023 marked the
30th anniversary and return of Tornado CNC
turning centres, which have been uprated
with modern configurations to provide
exceptional rigidity and accuracy. The
company has also launched the Student CNC
lathe, a modernised variant designed in the
UK and fitted with the latest Fanuc controls
for flexible programming.
Hurco will have on the stand a machining
centre, the space-saving, entry-level VM10i
with proprietary Max5 control, as well as a
CNC lathe, a TM8Mi with a maximum bar
capacity of 51 mm diameter and driven
tooling in the 12-station turret. Mills CNC
has announced that it will be showcasing two
new DN Solutions’ one-hit machines on its
stand, the compact DVF 4000 full 5-axis
machining centre and the Lynx 2100LSYB
multi-tasking turning centre with 8-inch
chuck and 65 mm bar capacity.
Supporting UK manufacturing since 1951,
RK International Machine Tools will show a
Cyclematic 618E precision toolroom lathe
and a PFG-1545AH surface grinder from
Perfect Machine with 450 mm x 150 mm
capacity, making it suitable for production
and toolroom applications. For the first time
in the UK, Velum extra protection machine
filters will be on display.
XYZ Machine Tools will be demonstrating
and cutting metal on seven machines across
two stands. The recently introduced TMC
toolroom machines have been designed for
low to medium volume manufacturing and
toolmaking applications and benefit from the
ProtoTRAK control, ideal for rapid
programming. Another highlight will be the
XYZ RMX 2-OP, a quick and cost-effective
solution for carrying out second operations
to finish a part. A number of lathes will be
offered for low- to high-volume parts
production.
Yamazaki Mazak will be hosting a stand
focused on maximising productivity and
profitability for manufacturers throughout
the supply chain. Taking centre stage will be
the Integrex i-200H S multi-tasking turn-mill
centre, which is ideally suited to a broad
range of industry sectors, from automotive
and aerospace through to general
subcontract machining. The model on
display will feature the new Smooth
Oscillation Cutting program, which is built
into the SmoothAi CNC to provide enhanced
chip control for further process stability, even
when cutting challenging materials. YMT
Technologies will conclude the line-up of
machine tool companies, which from its
headquarters in Yeovil offers Hedelius and
YCM machining centres as well as Goodway
CNC lathes.
There will be an informative seminar
programme over the three days and as usual,
Southern will co-locate with AutoAero, a
specialist theme within the exhibition
devoted to automotive and aerospace
engineering. Free car parking, bus transfers
and entry make the show highly accessible.
More information and tickets are
available from
www.industrysouth.co.uk
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