Mollart hails EMO 2013 best German exhibition it has ever attended

Says Ian Petitt, sales director: "The final decision to place the pellet die machine with us against local German opposition topped out an extremely busy week for Mollart and back in the UK we have some serious application engineering, quotations and customer presentations to carry out." The pellet die machine will be universal, allowing the customer to produce any number of holes between 2 mm and 10 mm diameter by up to 150 mm deep in the nickel chrome steel die components. Significant in the machine specification is the Mollart software, whereby the customer inputs the number of holes per row in the die and the number of rows required and the Fanuc control calculates the pitch centres, positions the component and creates a soft entry, high speed penetration and soft drill exit to maximise tool life and restrict burring. The machine incorporates high pressure coolant with filtration, pressure monitoring and individual thrust monitoring on the drills. Most of the 93 enquiries were from German engineers, but Eastern European, Russian, Portuguese, French and Scandinavian companies had live projects for Mollart to quote against.