September global launch for Citizen A Series
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Citizen's A-Series CNC sliding-head auto will see its global launch in September and NC Engineering will be the first to demonstrate it in Europe.
The machine will be unveiled at the Watford company's Open House held over 26-28 September.
The new Citizen A20 sliding-head machine combines two distinct advantages to users – a high rigidity cast bed giving improved levels of thermal and damping characteristics and a claimed unrivalled price for a 20 mm capacity, high-production machine.
The A20 also features Citizen’s idle time eliminating Streamline control, Sandvik Coromant’s QS 20 sec, quick-change tooling as standard and it has the ability to perform heavier machining operations. Additional machining flexibility is achieved with a 165 mm single chucking stroke plus a host of new productivity boosting features.
Also at the event and under power will be five CNC sliding-head turn/mill centres from the Citizen K, C, L and M-Series and a fixed-head Citizen Boley BE42Y featuring Y-axis crossfeed. The second generation CoolBlaster 140 bar coolant system will be demonstrated for the first time, an automatic unload parts carousel and an NC Engineering software development for Citizen, the CNC Wizard programming aid.
Supporting companies at the event with products that will be of particular interest to the small turned parts industry include: Sandvik Coromant with its QS quick change tooling system, MecWash component cleaning, Vision Inspection, Floyd Automatic Tooling, Iemca bar feeds and LNS Turbo swarf management.
