Cutting Systems
Driving precision cutting systems Gudel’s high performance gearboxes play an important part in helping Essex based Blackman and White, designer and builder of specialist cutting machines, maintain its excellent reputation
fashion. Blackman & White cutting machines are available with rotary blades, fixed blades and also the latest laser
technology, offering solutions for cutting a wide range of materials as
With sailing a predominant sport in the local area, the company’s roots were in sail making and the maritime industry. The company has diversified over the last five decades, and the cutting machines manufactured by the company are now used in industries as varied as aerospace and
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ounded in 1964 by engineers Les White and Jack Blackman, Essex based Blackman & White remains a family-owned company.
diverse as PVC and Kevlar. Swiss based Güdel, also a family business and now in its third generation, supplies the gearboxes that are at the heart of Blackman & White’s cutting machines. Güdel is a name widely recognised across many manufacturing sectors, and often associated with the company’s range of Gantry Robot systems and modules. Every Güdel Gantry Robot however, is built upon the company’s own in-house manufactured range of precision components, which includes an impressive range of angle and planetary gearboxes. Integrating this range of gearboxes allows Blackman & White to build Güdel’s reputation for quality and reliability right into the heart of their own machines. Blackman & White
Micro Cutting for everyone T
Water Jet Sweden broaden the possibilities of micro cutting with the launch The FAWJ Micro Head Package to our ordinary machine models
o cut narrow incisions in hard materials with high precision requires a specially developed waterjet cutting process. FAWJ
stands for Fine Abrasive Water Jet (micro waterjet, finecut), and is a unique and world-class cutting process launched back in 2008 by Water Jet Sweden. Since then, the technique has been applied to a specially developed precision machinery, designed to manufacture micro- components. Now we broaden the possibilities and launch The FAWJ Micro Head Package to our ordinary machine models. It is designed for customers who wish to cut fine parts with narrow incisions and high precision, without the need for the most extreme micro part tolerances.
FAWJ-A UNIQUE CUTTING TECHNOLOGY FAWJ technique requires a special cutting head and is a waterjet cutting process suitable for very fine abrasives so metals and other hard materials could be processed with incisions as thin as 0.2 mm. The cutting process has all the advantages that water jet cutting means. It is simple and versatile, with a very smooth surface that requires no or very little post-processing, and
there is no influence of the material constituent. The FAWJ technology also allows you to cut quite thick materials. The thickness varies depending on the type of material.
MICRO MACHINE - FOR EXTREME PRECISION Water Jet Sweden's machine model ‘Micro’ (NCM 10) is specially developed for the FAWJ- process and is used for manufacturing of micro components. Micro waterjet cutting machine is a
comments: “Since moving to Güdel gearboxes, and away from belts and pulleys, the accuracy and reliability has improved our products significantly.” Another important factor for Blackman & White, is the fact that Güdel has an extensive international reach, in over 30 locations around the world, allowing easy access to support if required. Güdel’s portfolio of high-performance angle gearboxes covers five different sizes. Named to correspond to the centre distance (in mm) between the input and output shafts: 030, 045, 060, 090, and 120, they offer an extremely broad choice of gear ratios – thirteen in total, ranging from two to 60. This enables users and machine builders to easily cover the most common application areas. This range of high-performance angle
gearboxes is suited to harsh working environments, and the cooling fins on the body castings guarantee optimum heat dissipation, even at high duty cycles.
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popular alternative to Micro-EDM and Laser. The Micro is a machine system based on Water Jet Sweden's patented Gantry design and has a number of unique features for cutting with tolerances less than 0.01mm. Some examples are the cutting table, which is made of epoxy concrete, a material that also is used for measuring machines. The machine's positioning is determined by a micrometer scale from
Renishaw, an invar scale that has a precision of 1nm. The Micro machine is a high precision tool used in precision mechanics, electronics, biotechnology and similar industry sectors, and for jewellery design and processing of exclusive materials.
NEW FEATURE: THE FAWJ MICRO HEAD PACKAGE - FOR FINE CUTS The FAWJ cutting process can cut as narrow as 0.2 mm, compared to traditional waterjet for which the incision normally is 0.8-1.0 mm. A growing number of customers around the world have seen new opportunities with the FAWJ cutting process, and there has been a growing demand for FAWJ-cutting in general. Therefore we launch an upgrade package: The FAWJ Micro Head Package. It can be used on our regular machine models, X-series and Premium, which both have the size of cutting tables (1 x1 to 4 x 2 meter) and a CNC control system that can that can handle the delicate sand feeding. FAWJ Micro Head Package can also be used as an upgrade for existing similar size machines.
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