en.Wedoany.com Reported - At the MACH exhibition held in Birmingham, UK this April, Citizen Machinery UK secured orders worth over £4.5 million, covering 30 Miyano fixed-headstock turning centres and Cincom sliding-head CNC lathes. Notably, one-fifth of the orders came from new customers who had never previously transacted with the company, a proportion that greatly encouraged its sales team.
This batch of orders will keep the supplier busy in the coming months with procurement, configuration, and delivery of bar-fed lathes, while also arranging for one person from each exhibiting subscriber to travel to Japan free of charge. This initiative, named "Gateway to Japan," includes exclusive factory tours and is designed to celebrate the Japanese group's 96th anniversary this year.
On the stand, the UK subsidiary presented five new machines, with an equal number of machine tools demonstrating the 4-axis synchronous LFV (Low Frequency Vibration) chip-breaking function. Although this technology was already showcased at an open house event in Brierley Hill last October, the Birmingham exhibition provided a wider audience with the first opportunity for a live demonstration. As a technology launched over a decade ago, LFV has been integrated into the controls of Cincom and an increasing range of Miyano lathe models. Unlike the programmed chip-breaking macro routines offered by other suppliers, this method effectively breaks long chips by synchronizing high-frequency vibration in the cutting feed direction with spindle rotation, creating intermittent air cuts. Initially capable of single-axis oscillation only in the longitudinal feed direction on the main spindle, the technology has now been expanded to perform simultaneous X-axis and Z-axis operations on both the main and sub-spindles, significantly enhancing efficiency. 4-axis LFV increases machining flexibility, shortens cycle times, and eliminates operational bottlenecks—regardless of program complexity, it eliminates the need to stop for clearing tangled swarf during unattended machining of ductile materials such as copper, certain stainless steels, aluminium, titanium, nickel alloys, lead-free eco-brass, and plastics.
A total of eight powered lathes were running on the stand, some featuring overlapping machining capabilities, allowing the simultaneous use of three tools for cutting to reduce cycle times. Three new models were unveiled among the Miyano fixed-headstock lathes: the BNJ-51SY7, the BNX-65MSY equipped with a workpiece unloader, and the ANX-42SYY, also integrated with an unloader system. Displayed alongside them were two new Cincom sliding-head lathes: the L32-X series 2 and the M32-VIII. The latter attracted attention due to its hybrid design, combining the rapid movement of a gang tool post with the versatility of a 10-station turret. For applications requiring heavy-duty and high-precision milling, the Miyano ABX-80THY was the focal point of the stand, featuring three 12-station turrets and enhanced thermal compensation, capable of high-precision turn-mill machining on bar stock up to 80mm in diameter. On the other side, Citizen demonstrated its micro-machining capabilities with the compact Cincom R04 sliding-head lathe, equipped with a 20,000 rpm spindle and a backlash-free linear motor on the X-axis, capable of machining 4mm diameter bar stock into miniature parts as small as 2mm.
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