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In-House Production, In-House Versatility In 1997, Karlheinz Nicolai moved his family and his business to the sprawling farm in the country that both continue to call home. “I’d always admired this house,” he says. “So when the owner passed away and the family decided to put it on the market, we moved in.” Finally, the young firm had space in which to operate and grow. And grow it did. Having begun with older, used machines, Nicolai knew that long-term success lay with investing in modern, state-of-the-art machinery and software. In 1999, the company purchased a new CNC machine, which gave rise to “an explosion of productivity.” Nicolai was on its way. | www.HaasCNC.com In 2005, when Karlheinz Nicolai went looking for a vertical machining centre, he turned to a friend for advice. “He’d been successfully running a Haas VF vertical machining centre for the last 10 years without any trouble, so I decided to check out the Haas machines,” notes Karlheinz. “We had a strict budget with which to purchase not just the machine, but all the new SK40 tooling we would need to get started. It quickly became apparent that the Haas VF-2SS was the ideal machine for our applications. There’s nothing on the market that compares with it for price and performance: a relatively compact machine that can machine small and larger parts at high speed. We needed a 12,000-rpm spindle, because we machine a lot of aluminium. We got all this and more with the VF-2SS, and remained within our budget. Even though we financed the machine over several years, it really paid for itself in the first few months.”
Nicolai GmbH selects employees carefully, preferring to train motivated individuals with conventional machine shop experience onsite. And with only 15 full-time employees and a backlog of orders, it’s important that each person and every machine is productive from the start. The logical, user-friendly Haas control makes CNC machining easier to understand, reducing operator error and training time. Nicolai feels this has been a great advantage to his firm. CNC MACHINING | 5
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