AEROSPACE & DEFENCE Loading a job in the Mazak Variaxis i-700 and Multi Pallet Pool.
communications, defence and food & beverages. Today the aerospace industry accounts for around 98% of the company’s business. Still a locally-owned family business to this day, the company operates its machining and assembly works on a companyowned site in Greensborough, Victoria, where it employs a team of more than 70 full-time staff. Complementary to this is the group’s processing facility, Electromold, which is located in Thomastown, north Melbourne, where it employs a further 40 staff. In the commercial aviation sector, Lovitt Technologies Australia is a key supplier to Boeing, manufacturing parts of the trailing edge for the most technically advanced commercial aircraft in the world – the Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner’. It also produces components for the 747 and 737 airliners. In addition it supplies some components for smaller commercial aircraft such as the Gulfstream business jet. In the defence segment, the company supplies parts of the floor structure, bulkheads and the engine mounts for the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter (JSF), as well as parts for the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet and F15 Eagle fighter jets, the V-22 Osprey V/STOL military transport aircraft, P-8 Poseidon and the CH47 Chinook helicopter.
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Lovitt Technologies Australia purchased its first Mazak, a Variaxis 630-5X vertical machining centre, back in 2013. The machine is still going strong today and frequently achieves more than 5,000 hours of titanium machining per year. Asked about the support the company has received from John Hart, Ramsay remarks: “Despite not yet having sirens on vehicles, the John Hart crew are responsive, knowledgeable, and follow through on questions and problem-solving. When you have equipment that frequently spends over 140 hours a week of actual machining, speed and knowledge in service becomes very important.” www.johnhart.com.au www.lovittech.com.au
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Bruce Ramsay (right) and Team Leader Ian Hodgkinson with Lovitt’s Mazak Variaxis i-700 and 18 pallet Multi Pallet Pool.
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