Currently, designers at the Georg machine tools division are completing an upgrade for Siemens manufacturing center in Görlitz, Germany. A turbine rotor lathe first installed in 1963 has been updated, ...

Industrial gas turbines are increasing in size. As a result of this, repair facilities that overhaul and repair these machines must keep pace. One of the key tools is a large lathe. As one of the ...

The lathe is known as the King of Machine Tools for a reason. There are very few things that you can’t make with one. In fact, people love to utter the old saw that the lathe is the only machine tool ...

The new Heckert X90 has a Y travel path that can be extended from 51.2 in. (1,300 mm) to 55.2 in. (1,400 mm) and in Z from 55.2 in. (1,400 mm) to a maximum of 70.9 in. (1,800 mm). STARRAG is ...

PrecisionPlus VP of Engineering, Mike P. Reader, with one of the company’s cam-actuated Swiss lathes. Precision Plus is not your typical machine shop. Founded as a cam-type Swiss screw machine shop 40 ...

When the job is large enough to need a big lathe, every cut counts. Watch the team machine a set of levelling feet with the care and precision the equipment demands. Have you worked with a lathe this ...