PRECISE IN THE ACTIONS Swiss company Tornos specialises in the manufacture of machines designed to produce parts requiring extreme precision and quality.
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ith a new subsidiary in Brazil and strengthened operations at its other bases, Tornos is looking to build its business in Europe and to achieve strong growth in the BRIC countries. This, according to vice-president and head of sales and marketing Willi Nef, will come through the continued development of innovative machinery. “There is always a big demand in new markets for our machinery and with our new equipment, particularly the MultiSwiss, we are seeing a lot of interest,” he says.
Innovative new products Tornos specialises in the manufacture of machines designed to produce parts requiring extreme precision and quality. The company has a worldwide sales and services network. It primarily manufactures CNC Swiss type single-spindle turning machines for parts less than 38mm in diameter, multispindle machines with numerical or cam control for parts up to 34mm in diameter
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and machining centres for complex parts of 1 dm3 in volume, requiring high precision. And a completely new field covered by Tornos is the surface treatment machine called Cyklos. At the Hanover Fair in September 2011, Tornos launched a range of new products. The Moutier-based company chose it as the arena to unveil no fewer than five world premieres, along with two new completely revolutionary product ranges – the MultiSwiss 6x14 and the Cyklos lines. “The MultiSwiss is a very compact, high production machine for small parts,” explains Mr Nef. “There has been a very, very high level of interest in these unique machines and so we expect strong demand.” The MultiSwiss 6x14 machine provides a link between multi-spindle turning machines and swiss type single spindle machines. Based on the ‘fully integrated’ concept and featuring innovative front access, this new machine is designed with three types of customer in
mind: users of numerical multi-spindle turning machines; users of cam-operated machines and users of single-spindle turning machines.
User-friendly The numerically-controlled machine features new technologies and contains all the peripherals required for optimal operation, at a lower price than any other CNC multi-spindle machine. It takes its name from the maximum bar passage diameter (14mm) multiplied by the number of spindles. The user-friendly MultiSwiss has been designed to offer maximum user comfort and is the first frontal machine available on the market in this size. It is also the first machine not to use Hirth gearing to lock the barrel. This classic system, well-known to Tornos, has been successfully replaced with a torque motor. The quill type spindles are equipped with a hydrostatic bearing to guarantee excellent damping. In addition, the MultiSwiss
