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MACH was a phenomenal success for Guhring with its stand being busy from the very start of the show to the point when the last visitors were leaving on Friday afternoon. The stand was hectic from the word go for several reasons. Firstly, Guhring demonstrated a complete range of products that included threading, turning, drilling and milling tools – many of which received their UK exhibition premiere at the show. The other reason was due to the tools being demonstrated ‘live’ on a GROB 5-axis machining centre.
Guhring gave a MACH show debut to the new RF100 Sharp Series of end mills that were put through their paces on the GROB machine. Designed to address the issue of machining soft, tough and high-alloyed materials that create an issue with swarf clearance, the new RF100 Sharp Series is Guhring’s sharpest solid carbide milling tool to date. Alongside the Sharp was the Diver Series of end mills that Guhring recently extended for micromachining with the new RF100 Micro Diver.
Guhring had its holemaking ranges performing on the machining centre at MACH. With many of its industry-leading drilling lines undertaking ‘live cutting’ demonstrations, it was the RT 100T solid carbide spiral flute deep-hole drills that captured the imagination of engineers at the show.
Commenting upon the exhibition, Guhring UK Managing Director, Chris Weston said: “Before MACH, expectations may have been somewhat subdued due to the unpredictable Covid situation, but that dissipated on day one with a very high number of enquiries – and this continued to surge throughout the week to give us our busiest MACH week ever. The enquiries we received were well balanced across our portfolio of products. We had technical engineers giving demonstrations of our vending solutions all week whilst the GROB G550 5-axis machine provided live demos of our deep hole drilling line and the new Sharp end mills to name a few. We have always alluded to the performance of our industry-leading lines that can achieve cutting parameters beyond alternate lines. This is especially true of our deep hole drilling range – but it wasn’t until engineers watched it on the GROB machine that they believed it.”
“It was the first time for Guhring to have a machining centre on the MACH stand to demonstrate products, and it worked extremely well. We had a crowd around the machine all week, paying close attention to the jaw-dropping performance of our tools. We are also delighted to announce that our cooperation with GROB at MACH was just the first step in a long-term partnership that has now seen Guhring UK take the impressive 5-axis machine that straddled both stands at MACH straight to the Guhring technical centre in Birmingham. Arriving at Guhring UK immediately after the show, the machine will cement our relationship and enable us to provide comprehensive demonstrations of our product lines on an extremely capable 5-axis machining centre. It will also serve as a facility for GROB to invite its customers to undertake machining trials,” concludes Chris.
