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High Clamping Torque Kitagawa Rotary Tables

The Kitagawa GT Rotary Tables are an excellent solution if heavy machining on a 4th axis application is required. Key features of the heavy duty GT series include high clamping torques, extreme rigidity, and fast indexing operations. With faceplates ranging from 200 to 320mm, there will be a GT rotary table available for most machining […]

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NC Rotary Tables from Kitagawa

Kitagawa Rotary Tables feature proven technology with high clamping torque, high accuracy, and high rigidity. With a wide range of tables to choose from there is a huge amount of flexibility on offer to meet whatever needs your machine shop may require. A rotary table is a quick, easy, and inexpensive way of increasing the […]

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Five Axis Rotary Tables

The benefits of five axis machining are numerous, but you don’t have to pay out for a brand new machine to get them. A Kitagawa TT Rotary Table is a simple, easy, and affordable way to add extra machining axes to your existing setup, at a fraction of the cost of a new five-axis machine. […]

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Keep Those Drills Sharp with the Darex XT-3000

Darex Drill Sharpener XT3000

The Darex XT-3000 is an expandable tool sharpener that grows as your shop’s needs grow. When you want the right point sharpened quickly and simply, the Darex XT-3000 is your best choice. It sharpens a wide variety of sizes and styles of drill, as well as a wide range or other tools, with ease, accuracy, […]

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Don’t Lose Your Edge With a Darex Drill Sharpener

Darex Drill Sharpener XT3000

Whether your shop specializes in high-tech mass production or creative custom fabrications, there will be a need to keep your drill bits sharp. Rather than suffering with blunt drills or paying expensive sharpening costs, there’s a Darex Drill Sharpener that will lower your tool costs and make your toughest jobs run smoothly. Darex offers a […]

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1st MTA at Advanced Manufacturing 2017

1st Machine Tools & Accessories

We’re excited to announce that we will be at the Advanced Manufacturing Show 2017 on 6 – 8th June on Stand A42 at the NEC, Birmingham, and we can’t wait for you to join us. Advanced Manufacturing is the only UK event dedicated exclusively to advanced manufacturing technologies. Designed with buyers’ needs at heart, the […]

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Chick Indexer SubSystem is the Best Way to Increase Productivity

The Chick Indexer SubSystem is a workholding system that mounts to a rotary table and provides four or six sides on which to mount your workpieces. If you want to improve the productivity of your vertical machining centre, the Indexer SubSystem is for you. Use of the Indexer SubSystem offers a wide range of benefits: […]

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Increased Efficiency with the Chick One-Lok

One-Lok CNC Vise

The Chick One-Lok for CNC machine tools represents an evolution in workholding technology in terms of speed, productivity, flexibility, and accuracy. It has been proven time and again to improve efficiency in machining, and what follows are a few of the many success stories the Chick One-Lok has produced. Productivity Raised By Fast-Acting Workholding Malvern […]

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Chick System 5 – One System, Endless Opportunities

Chick Workholding System 5 was designed with flexibility in mind. The entire range of System 5 products work together to maximize your productivity and drastically reduce your repeat setup time. Select from a variety of easy set-up machinable accessories to create endless opportunities. The System 5 Family For vertical machining, the Qwik-Lok has the ability […]

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Great Workholding Starts With a Strong Chick Foundation

Chick Foundation Plate

Chick Foundation Plates provide critical repeatability and consistency to clamping processes, and are custom-made to fit a CNC machining centre envelope with sizing from as small as required, to the size of the entire machine bed. A labelled 50mm grid pattern allows easy building, cataloguing, and accurate location of workholding setups, with easy maintenance thanks […]

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