Looking for a used or new machine tool?
1,000s to choose from
Machinery-Locator
Ceratizit MPU Hurco MPU Mills CNC MPU 2021

Machinery-Locator
The online search from the pages of Machinery Market.

Gilly AF 65 Horizontal Milling and Boring Machine
Gilly AF 65 Horizontal Milling and Boring Machine

Spindle 65mm dia
Spindle traverse 550mm
Spind
Gilly AF 65 Horizontal Milling and Boring Machine Spindle 65mm dia Spindle traverse 550mm Spind...

Be seen in all the right places!

Metalshow & TIB 2025 Plastics & Rubber Thailand 2025 METALTECH & AUTOMEX 2025 Intermach 2025 ITM Industry Europe Smart Manufacturing Week 2025 Subcon 2025 EMO 2025 Maktek Konya Advanced Engineering 2025 Maktek Smart MACH 2026

Ultra Precision Nanoform X machine tool for PACE

Posted on 22 Jan 2021. Edited by: John Hunter. Read 2278 times.
Ultra Precision Nanoform X machine tool for PACEAMETEK Precitech has announced the creation of the Precision Advancement Center of Excellence (PACE), which will open at Taylor Hobson’s facility in Leicester.

To help improve the facility’s capabilities, AMETEK Precitech has supplied a four-axis Nanoform X configured with the Optimus Laser Assisted Machining system from Micro-LAM. This machine is designed to improve the throughput and quality of diamond-turning processes for materials that are hard to machine, including glass, fused silica, BK7 and Zerodur.

The PACE facility is an applications centre for advanced diamond turning manufacturing and metrology. The goal of the centre is to provide coordinated advanced diamond turning and metrology capabilities to the European market under one roof.

Keith Kowalski, Precitech vice president and business unit manager, said: “I am excited to join forces with Micro-LAM, Taylor Hobson, and Zygo to create this applications centre for advanced machining and metrology.

“In addition to expanding cooperation with Taylor Hobson and Zygo, which are both business units with the Ultra Precision Technologies Division of AMETEK, I am also delighted to expand our partnership with Micro-LAM to deliver unrivalled performance in ultra-precision machining of glass and other challenging substrates.

“Their laser technology, combined with our industry-leading machining capabilities, offers something truly unique – extending tooling life and providing fast, accurate machining of both challenging, as well as previously unmachinable, materials.”

Deepak Ravindra, CEO of Micro-LAM, said: “This is a great step forward for Micro-LAM, our AMETEK partners, and our customers. The PACE facility is an ultra-precision machining ‘playground’ for the precision machining community

“What makes this venture more exciting is its timing. While our industry has been somewhat separated by the global health pandemic, we are joining forces to provide our customers in Europe access to ‘state of the art’ technology.”