Mollart sells nine machines worth £1.2 million in one week
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A record number of nine gundrilling machine orders, eight for export and one for the UK, together worth over £1.2 million, were taken by Mollart Engineering of Chessington during just one week in July.
Managing director Guy Mollart said: "Our machine tool order book was already riding high in the first six months having already exceeded our budget forecast for the whole of 2010. With these new orders, and several still in the pipeline, this has given us high security for the business in the near future."
The orders comprise of: three 3-spindle machines for automotive fuel injection production in China; two machines for actuator component manufacture in a Chinese aerospace company; a 2-spindle machine is to be installed at a mining company in South Africa; a 4-spindle machine has been sold to a glass bottle moulding company in Germany, for high production drilling of deep cooling holes in moulds; and a three-spindle machine is to be installed in Austria.
The UK customer has ordered the first Mollart 5-axis Matrix DHD hybrid combination multi-axis gundrill and machining centre. This order followed discussions at MACH 2010, where the machine was launched, and subsequent trials at Chessington where a prototype machine is engaged in subcontract production.
Explaining the clutch of orders, sales director Ian Petitt said: "The Chinese orders are the result of long term projects and trials on difficult components but the German and Austrian machines were totally unexpected as they followed very quickly from our quotations."
