The CF 400/250 builds on the experience and the solid basis of its big sister CF 500/400, designed and built to meet any precision grinding challenge of small parts from 2mm to 50mm in diameter, it is suitable for grinding different materials: steel, carbide, ceramics, and many more.
The CF 400/250 centreless grinder offers two main types of grinding operations, infeed grinding or through-feed grinding, depending on the shape of the piece, and is equipped with hydrodynamic spindles with a third lateral support that guarantee precision and stability, and an easy and quick change of grinding wheel and control wheel from the side of the machine.
The grinding wheel has a diameter of 400x250mm driven by a 19 kW grinding wheel motor with inverter that allows a constant and programmable peripheral speed.
Design with the workblade support fixed directly to the machine bed to ensure rigidity and precision and to allow quick replacement of the work rest blade and the use of simple unloading systems.
Equipped with Fanuc CNC or alternatively Siemens and interactive software 'SMT', with colour graphics menu for create the grinding cycles, which guides and supports the operator step by step through the work program.
The new CF 400/250 grinder can be equipped and configured from 1 to 8 CNC axes, depending on the customer's production needs, to offer the best technical and economic solution.
The new CF 400/250 centreless grinding machine is an advantageous choice for flexible and versatile production, loading and unloading always in the same position, easy and quick change of work rest blade for in feed or through-feed grinding and vice versa.
CNC-controlled dressing units with single diamond, diamond disc or diamond roller at the end user's choice for grinding wheel dressing and profiling.
The company said the new centreless grinding machine CF 400 /250 series with 'workblade support fixed on the machine bed', designed by SMT Special Machine Tools "meets the new market requirements by offering advantages in terms of efficiency energy, high production and high quality, maximum reliability and precision, personalised software with very intuitive menus, machine ready for industry 4.0, low energy consumption, excellent price/performance ratio".
