HBC steel: Listo para el despegue y el aterrizaje

The first Makino MAG1 in Central Europe has been installed at HBC Steel Guaranteed Machining, a young but dynamically expanding company located in the Czech city of Olomouc. In only six years HBC Steel´s visionary owner, Pavel Hemžský, has built up a thriving job-order parts production business. Recently, he invested in a MAG1 to equip …

HBC steel: Ready for take-off and landing

The first Makino MAG1 in Central Europe has been installed at HBC Steel Guaranteed Machining, a young but dynamically expanding company located in the Czech city of Olomouc. In only six years HBC Steel´s visionary owner, Pavel Hemžský, has built up a thriving job-order parts production business. Recently, he invested in a MAG1 to equip …

Machining: Turning

Turning is a machining process in which a cutting tool, typically a non-rotary tool bit, describes a helix toolpath by moving more or less linearly while the workpiece rotates. The tool’s axes of movement may be literally a straight line, or they may be along some set of curves or angles, but they are essentially linear (in the non mathematical sense). Usually the …

Machining: Boring

In machining, boring is the process of enlarging a hole that has already been drilled (or cast) by means of a single-point cutting tool (or of a boring head containing several such tools), such as in boring a gun barrel or an engine cylinder. Boring is used to achieve greater accuracy of the diameter of a hole, and can be used to cut a tapered hole. …