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Unicut Precision has won an 80,000 a year trim, instrument and switchgear export contract for a European supercar that will involve ultra-high precision turning, contouring, cross hole drilling, grooving, slotting and broaching as well as deep fine hole drilling, form milling and full in-cycle deburring in single operational cycles.
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A major export contract for aerospace components has been renewed with Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden City by a US customer requesting delivery schedules originally due early in 2009 to be brought forward due to increased demand.
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A special hydraulic valve body contract has been won by Unicut Precision for repeat batches of 2,000 complex multi-featured components due to the company’s capability to re-engineer the production process from an aluminium casting requiring five or six operations into a single turn-mill cycle out of bar.
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Subcontract machining specialist Unicut precision has invested £130,000 in a fully automated swarf handling and coolant filtration system for its new bay at the 18,000 ft2 small turned parts production facility at Welwyn Garden City. The installation, part of a £725,000 investment programme that will include purchase of six new CNC controlled turn-mill centres over the next two years and create four additional jobs, was grant funded by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA).
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Companies, especially those that have been investing in the latest equipment, are facing ever greater problems trying to find the skills or develop existing people in order to gain the highest productivity returns from their costly investment programme.
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The first international order for the world’s fastest 32 mm capacity CNC sliding head auto was placed on Citizen Machinery UK by Unicut Precision of Welwyn Garden City during the MACH 2008 exhibition at the NEC.
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Unicut Precision has expanded its multi-axis CNC small parts machining premises by almost 40 per cent to bring the machine shop area to over 18,000 ft². Within the new area two of the latest Citizen K-16 CNC sliding head autos, ordered during the EMO exhibition in Hannover in September, have been installed alongside a pair of K-16 machines that were commissioned earlier in 2007.
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Responding to increases in export contracts from America and rising orders from the medical sector for high quality components in difficult to machine materials, Unicut Precision took the opportunity to order two of the latest Citizen K16-VI CNC sliding headstock automatic lathes from the Citizen exhibition stand at the European machine tool exhibition, EMO 2007 in Hannover.
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Unicut Precision was host to a delegation from Citizen Machinery in Japan, the USA and Europe, to see first hand how the precision subcontractor was taking full advantage of its 14 Citizen CNC sliding head automatic lathes. Also as part of the visit, they were keen to listen to views and opinions in relation to future machine development that could be of benefit to further increase productivity on the type of work being produced at the Welwyn Garden City company.
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Unicut Precision has installed three additional Citizen CNC sliding head automatic lathes at its Welwyn Garden City facility and recruited three additional machine setters to meet a 25 per cent increase on its current order book. Says Jason Nicholson, joint managing director: “We came into 2007 with the biggest contract order book ever and still have quotations awaiting purchase decisions from UK and overseas customers.”
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A fully automated tool dispensing system linked to its management information network that will track tool usage against jobs and automatically initiate re-order as stocks are used, has been installed in Unicut Precision’s Welwyn Garden City subcontract machine shop.
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In order to speed first-off inspection, monitoring of production and to automatically collate inspection reports and statistical process data, Unicut Precision has ordered an OGP SmartScope Flash 200 fully integrated touch probe and non-contact video 3-D inspection centre for its Welwyn Garden City subcontract machining operation.
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Unicut Precision’s production engineering culture of implementing ‘one-hit’ single machining cycles on very complex components has won it a long-term contract to produce batches of 250 flow control bodies that caused concern even to the supplier of the machines on which the parts would be processed!
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