Grinding machines manufactured by Jones & Shipman Hardinge (www.hardinge.com) and its sister companies in the Hardinge Group — Kellenberger, Hauser, Voumard, Tschudin and Usach — are established features in many machine shops.

Now, building on the manufacturing and technical resources within the grinding companies of Hardinge Inc, customers can access a re-building and upgrading service being offered for high-value CNC grinding products.

Jones & Shipman Hardinge UK’s managing director, Mike Duignan, said: “It is a service designed to maximise the life span of a machine that, while perfectly sound in structure and capability, could benefit from upgrading.

"If you take a universal Kellenberger Varia, for example, a refurbishment and upgrade to include the latest Fanuc 0i control with the new Kellenberger user-friendly menu-based programming software could be as much as 25% less than a new machine.

"Furthermore, we can supply a loan machine for some Kellenberger products through our UK and European headquarters, so that production is not interrupted.”

To find out if you have a machine that will benefit from an upgrade or refurbishment, contact the sales team at Jones & Shipman Hardinge (Tel: +44 (0)116 201 3000 or e-mail ).