ATS UK has invested £90,000 in a CNC lathe to support its high precision tool making and specialist machining activities at its Folkestone, Kent, tooling and moulding division.

Following lengthy investigations and trials ATS purchased a CMZ TL-25 M machine supplied and installed by CMZ UK. The new machine is already being used to manufacture bespoke parts for multi-cavity injection mould tooling as well as small-medium sized production runs of high precision machined components for the aerospace, medical and packaging sectors.

ATS technical director, Mark Terry, said: “This latest acquisition has filled a gap in our machinery portfolio, enabling us to machine a wide variety of components for both injection mould tools as well as batch production items.

“Our brief was very detailed and covered a wide range of requirements including the high precision ‘hard turning’ of mould components, thus reducing the need for cylindrical grinding. CMZ allowed us to perform actual machining trials on their machines before we made our final decision.”

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