[ Industry Update ]
[ Industry Update ]
CITIC receive TPG Accreditation
Hurco DCX22i – equipment at Jones Nuttall
CITIC Pacific Special Steel has met rigorous audit requirements to become the first company in China to achieve the TPG ( Transport and Power Generation ) Accreditation for Steel Manufacturing . CITIC subsidiaries , Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works Co ., Ltd , based in Jiangyin , and Daye Special Steel Co ., Ltd , based in Huangshi both successfully completed the independent audits to achieve TPG Accreditation . The TPG audit and accreditation program is an industry-managed supply chain oversight program for key critical manufacturing processes in the transport and power generation industries .
The Hurco DCX22i twin-column , bridge-type , vertical machining centre ( VMC ) with eight tonnes table load capacity is now the largest item of prismatic machining equipment at Jones Nuttall Precision Engineering , Warrington . The machine is well specified with a 40-station tool magazine , 12,000 rpm / 18 kW spindle and rapids of 32 m / min in the X / Y axes and 24 m / min in Z , which is also the maximum cutting feed rate . The DCX22i brings to 12 the number of machining centres in use at Jones Nuttall , all of them supplied by Hurco . Additionally , a third of the lathes on site are Hurcos , both of them bar-fed . The TM10 has a 10-inch chuck while the 8-inch chuck TMM8 includes live tooling and a C-axis . Jones Nuttall opted for Hurco equipment due to the high build quality and spindle power of both the machining centres and lathes .
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