Mollart Engineering drills into Chinese market

Managing director Guy Mollart says: "The Chinese automotive and aerospace market has developed to provide such a great potential for Mollart. Even against fierce international competition we have won through and in the first quarter of this year we will have delivered and installed 12 machines to various sectors in Chinese industry." The Drill Sprint was originally developed by Mollart at Chessington for the deep hole drilling of shafts but due to various application demands from customers led to multi-spindle variants with up to four spindles and two different strokes providing hole depths of 750 or 1,500 mm. Counter-rotation is available which maximises concentricity between the bore being produced and the outside diameter of the part. Holes between 2 and 22 mm diameter can be produced with fully programmable feed rates up to 1,000 mm/min and the 5.5 kW motor will provide speeds of 6,000 or 12,000 rpm. While the machine can incorporate spindle monitoring and drill depth process monitoring it is also available as part of a turn-key package created from a wide range of automation options including robotics, gantry loading and features such as automatic whip guide positioning. The 11th China International Machine Tool exhibition in Beijing between 11-16 April is one of the largest machine tool exhibitions in the world. In 2009 the show drew over 230,000 visitors to see the 1,222 exhibitors from 28 different countries, including Mollart from the UK.