New Morbidelli M100F
benefits food, beverage
and agribusiness crop and
livestock needs for tough,
light, hygienic materials
A leading Australasian
supplier of some of the
world’s most advanced
engineering plastics has
staged a precision installation of
advanced machining facilities used
to produce top quality light and
strong engineering components and
finished products.
Without missing a day’s production,
Cut To Size Plastics Pty Ltd brought
the new 3500kg Morbidelli Author
M100F heavy-duty CNC router and
machining centre from delivery
truck tray to factory floor production
readiness over two days at its
Sydney headquarters.
The new high-speed, vibration-free
Italian technology – which offers
unmatched finishing quality and
rapid production turnaround for the
company’s Asia-Pacific markets
– will be used to produce light,
strong, hygienic and chemically
and corrosion-resistant machinery
components and custom-engineered
products for industries such as
food and beverage and agricultural
crop and livestock and primary
processing applications. Such
plastics are particularly valued for
automation, packaging, processing
and washdown advantages.
Components to be engineered on the
new machine include sheaves, gears,
rollers, channel guides, chain guides,
actuators, impact pads, internally
lubricated no-maintenance machinery
components, pump components,
crane and elevator components,
vibrating screen components, gear
housings, production automation
and safety components including
machinery shields and insulated tool
holders.
The new machine was eased into
place by truck, crane and careful
planning as it threaded its way
among ongoing production, coming
to rest besides the machine it
replaced, which was still working at
full capacity until the switchover.
“This was a real team effort to
ensure that the high capacity new
machine – which is about 6.5m
long installed – could be efficiently
threaded though busy factory
floorspace among other high-tech
machinery, then introduced into
production without a hitch,” says Cut
To Size Pty Ltd managing director
Laurie Green.
The new machine moved smoothly
into production last month (March)
to produce high precision, light
and durable machinery parts and
complete products engineered from
the materials of international leaders
in plastics technology for whom Cut
To Size Pty Ltd is national distributor,
including Licharz, Gehr and Beck-
Wefapress.
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