According to Alain Reynvoet, Haas Automation Europe NV’s managing director, a 24% increase in first-quarter sales compared to 2012 “is not based on discounting but results from designing and building machines that offer greater value and provide unrivalled productivity and ‘peace of mind’ for the customer. As well as selling more machines and increasing our market share, we’re also selling higher value machines — with features our customers use to make better parts, more quickly”.
Visitors to Haas (Hall 27, Stand C12 –
www.haascnc.com) will witness cutting demonstrations on 16 of the company’s latest-model CNC machine tools, including: high-speed vertical machining centres (50-taper machines designed to make big cuts); turning centres with live tooling and sub-spindles; small-footprint drill-tap and toolroom machines; specialist vertical machining centres for tool makers; and the Haas UMC-750 universal machining centre.
The 22.4kW UMC-750 is a five-axis 40-taper VMC with a 40-tool side-mounted tool changer, a maximum spindle speed of 8,100rev/min (12,000rev/min is an option), a maximum torque of 122Nm at 2,000rev/min, rapids of 25.4m/min for the X, Y and Z axes, and indexing speeds of 50deg/sec on the B and C rotary axes. The work envelope is 762 x 508 x 508mm, while the travel for the B axis (tilt) is +110 to -35deg. The C axis rotates 360deg.