Inca Geometric installs £200,000 Mazak travelling column VMC

The Mazak-300C-II four-axis machining centre will accept components for production within its working strokes of 1,740 mm in X, 760 mm in Y and 660 mm in Z. The table, 2,000 mm by 760 mm, can be used to provide a higher productivity pendulum loading/machining capability. In addition, the central guarding can be removed which will enable components up to the maximum table length to be machined in a single setting without repositioning. Said joint managing director Mike Cain: "With the installation of the large capacity CNC horizontal borer and a recent upgrade to our CNC measuring machine we now have the ability to produce a wide range of component types to very high orders of precision and with the huge advantage given by the use of the latest technology." The 300C-II has the latest Mazatrol Fusion 640M control system which is integrated with Renishaw inspection probe and full tool monitoring. The control has a fully adaptive capability to maximise metal removal and a 12,000 revs/min spindle drive delivering 95 Nm of torque. This provides the power for heavy duty cutting or precision machining of materials such as aluminium. As Ann Cain, joint managing director said: "There are very few companies in the Kent area which have this level of latest machine tool technology. However, we have the advantage of a high skill level to engineer an application on a component to not only meet quality requirements and delivery but also to achieve a level of pricing that can only be met by using modern methods of production." Inca Geometric employs 30 people at its 16,000 ft² facility in Chartham, just outside Canterbury. With a full machining, assembly and fitting capability, built up over some 50 years involvement in the special purpose machine tool and test rig design and build operations supplied to leading companies around the world, it is able to provide a full engineering and production machining service.