Tornos, represented in Australia by Power Machinery, has launched its MultiAlpha 8x20 multi-spindle turning machine.


With eight powered spindles and a five-tool counter spindle, the MultiAlpha is a high-precision bar-turning unit for complex work pieces that integrates a thread-whirling process.

Thread whirling, for example, allows bar-turners to respond quicker because for a large production run, all that needs to be done is the setup of one multi-spindle turning machine instead of several different single-spindle turning machines.

Moreover, on these machines the thread-whirling unit never leaves the machining area and thus the temperature levels on the material remain balanced throughout the entire production run, thereby assuring consistent precision.

The CNC-controlled limit stop enables bar turners to program various batches comprising shorter runs of different lengths but with the same diameter in one extended operation on a MultiAlpha machine.

This approach also makes it possible to machine series of work pieces of different lengths from a single stock of bars without having to stop the machine or reset it to change tools.

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