Northeast Manufacturing News • August 2012

NORTHEAST Vol. 8 No. 8 Serving Since 2005 Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont & West Virginia M ANUFACTURING N EWS August 2012 Feature Editorial IMTS 2012 North Building MC Machinery New Product Lines See new wire EDM cylindrical drive tech-nology, waterjet series and MC Milling line. See Page 14 for Details Complete Online Digital Editions go to www.mfgnewsweb.com CHIRON America Announces JBM Technologies as New Northeast Distributor CHIRON America, Inc. has named JBM Technologies as a new Northeast distributor. “JBM Technologies’ sales staff, with over 175 combined years of manufacturing experi-ence, specializes in as-sisting customers with cost efficient and prof-itable machine tool so-lutions,” said a company spokesperson. “Serving as much more than a distributor of Chiron (l-r) Marty Demers, Chiron America Regional Manager, Machining Centers, the and John Watkins, President of JBM Technologies engineers at JBM Tech-nologies are factory trained to keep group as one of our Northeast repre-abreast of the latest technological ad-sentatives, and we look forward to a vancements in order to provide instal-long and prosperous relationship,” lations, comprehensive training and said Marty Demers, Chiron America preventative maintenance.” Regional Manager. JBM Technologies “We welcome JBM Technologies to will represent Chrion in Western Penn-the Chiron family. We’re excited to sylvania, Northern New Jersey and the have such an experienced and talented Continued on Page 12 IMTS Show 2012 One of the Largest Ever The 29th edition of IMTS -The In-ternational Manufacturing Technology Show 2012 -is on track to rank among the top five largest IMTS events cover-ing almost 1.2 million net square feet of exhibit space with more than 1,800 exhibiting companies. The show will be held at Chicago’s McCormick Place Sept. 10-15. IMTS Show hours vary from build-ing to building. The Lakeside Center (East) and West building hours are 9 AM -5 PM daily; the North and South building hours are 10 AM -6 PM daily. IMTS will host 85,000 -90,000 Continued on Page 8 IMTS 2012 South Building ICON Tripod 700S Powerflex A modular 6-axis machining center Parallel Kinematics Machine. See Page 34 for Details Mazak Announces Major Expansion of North American Manufacturing Plant Mazak Corporation has announced that it will significantly expand the company’s North American manufac-turing plant in Florence, KY. This ex-pansion will allow for increased pro-duction and support of new and addi-tional Mazak machine models in Ken-tucky and increase the facility’s potential production capacity to 200 machines per month to meet customer demands. Completion of the expansion is set for the Fall of 2013, and Mazak will host a Continued on Page 5 Applying Technology Technology Exceeded Our Expectations Using SWI’s ProtoTRAK CNC resulted with an in-process run time that is 50% faster per part. See Page 56 for Details Gosiger’s East Coast Division Hosts Second Workshop of a 3-Part Series In June, Gosiger’s East Coast Division hosted its second workshop of a 3-part series on the topic of lights out manufacturing at its Southeast and Mid/Atlantic of-fices. This second event encompassed the fundamentals of maximizing pro-d u ct ivity w hile controlling chips produced by vari-ous machining cuts, all while in an un-attended setting. Cont. on Page 12 Losma Increases Capacity with New U.S. Plant Opening Losma USA has purchased a new 16,000 square foot facility that is more than twice the size of its previous plant. Located in Sparta, NJ, the new plant will enable Losma to streamline its US assembly process and increase inven-tory, enabling the company to better serve its US customer base, the com-pany said. Andrew Cook, General Manager of Losma USA, said, “Our customers in the machine tool industry have to move fast to stay ahead of the competition. Continued on Page 12 IMTS 2012 East Building Fagor Unveils 8065 CNC Can control up to 28 axes + four separate spindles with four different execution channels... See Page 70 for Details Jan S. Andersson, Northeast Technical Team Sandvik Coromant, performing a live demonstration on an Okuma Multus B200W machine for attendees. IMTS 2012 West Building Jergens New ER Collets Designed to hold rods and other round workpieces. See Page 88 for Details To make name, address subscription changes contact: • Phone: 800-375-8488 • Fax: 817-488-7813 • E-mail: info@mfgnewsweb.com • www.mfgnewsweb.com Subscription Changes: CHANGE SERVICE REQUESTED Gross Publications, Inc. NORTHEAST MANUFACTURING NEWS P.O. Box 847 Grapevine, Texas 76099-0847 U.S.A. PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE DALLAS, TX PERMIT 4245 Advertiser Index Page 87 PAID