The new equipment, costing £230,000, represents the latest stage of investment at the 50-employee Greater Manchester precision engineers. Over £1 million has been invested in expanding DPC’s workshops and premises in recent years by owners Simon Dawson, Paul Dawson and Julie Hughes.
DPC provides subcontract and engineering services to clients in the UK, Europe and beyond, across sectors including aerospace, aviation, defence, energy, environmental, marine, medical, motorsport and rail transport.
The Citizen is a 20 mm capacity sliding-head with sub-spindle live tooling and magazine bar feed. It is particularly suited to long, slender jobs and parts that require turning and milling in one operation. The 42 mm bar capacity Miyano is of similar configuration to the Citizen, but is the first of its type to be installed in the UK with LFV Technology.
Says Paul Dawson: “Citizen and Miyano hold an open day event every year and we recently went to Watford to see the new Miyano BNA 42 GTY. We’d heard about the machine in the pipeline but wanted to see it running. It has a 42 mm diameter capacity and has replaced two older machines we had. The new machine complements our other machining capabilities of 32 and 50 mm diameters.
“LFV technology allows for better swarf management by turning waste shavings into chips rather than long coils. This means some materials, such as certain plastics and aluminiums, can be cut much more efficiently. The waste swarf falls away rather than builds up in long, stringy coils.”
