For businesses looking to take a first step into the world of CNC machinery, or wanting to update existing machinery, the Daltons Wadkin range of CNC options will help achieve the machine smarter philosophy.
Daltons Wadkin has an enviable reputation for offering only the very best in wood, plastics and composite processing equipment. Considerable time has been taken in establishing a portfolio of CNC products from carefully-vetted European manufacturers. The 114-year-old family-run company is now boasting a comprehensive range of models from Kimla and Greda.
“Our CNC customer base has grown exponentially over the past few years,” comments director Alex Dalton, “and now covers a broad spectrum of industries including aerospace, automotive, rail, furniture, pattern and tool, education, defence, timber frame and SIP. Customers come to us looking for ways to exploit the latest panel and composite material.”
Greda
Since the birth of the company in Mariano Comense, Italy, in 1981, Greda has built up a solid track record in product development and innovation.
“With Greda we found an organic, family-run company with a strong focus on bespoke five-axis machining centres. Their ability to create custom solutions as well as offering standard gantry and portal-style equipment gives us a big advantage against larger manufacturers,” comments sales director Andy Walsh.
Especially suited to the UK market is the recently-introduced Greda DIVA.
Dubbed a pocket five-axis CNC, the DIVA is a high performance production machine requiring less than 9m2 of working space and ideally suited for workshops with restricted space or for processing smaller components freeing up valuable time on larger machines.
The Greda Poker and Mitika models are five-axis rotary machines for turned items, such as furniture legs, musical instruments, sporting items etc, up to 500mm diameter and 2500mm in length.
Equipped with automatic unloading/loading, operations such as milling, shaping, engraving and sanding, can be executed in one working cycle.
For larger capacity work the five-axis Argo and Sprinter models provide heavy duty multi-function processing for individual components or high production output in a range of materials.
Kimla
Polish manufacturer Kimla started out developing simple to operate but powerful CNC CAM systems based on its unique Dynamic Vector Analysis (DVA) algorithm. It soon became apparent that to fully exploit the processing speed achievable with the DVA it started to manufacture its own range of equipment.
Kimla now boasts a comprehensive range of award-winning models from desktop engravers to water-jet and high speed fibre lasers, all based on the simple-to-operate Kimla DVA CAM software.
To date, the most popular model for the UK market has been the Kimla BPF Industrial, a gantry machine available in a three- or four- axis configuration with working areas from 1000 x 1500mm to 7000 x 2600mm and beyond.
Tool-changers, spindle size, oscillating knife head, camera registration, creasing wheel options etc are of course all customisable with each machine built to order to the highest tolerances. As with all Kimla machines the positioning accuracy is to within 0.001mm.
Kimla really excels when it comes to multi-material processing. Of course, traditional wood-based panels are no problem for Kimla, but it is when materials such as solid aluminium, aluminium composite (ACM), glass reinforced plastic (GRP), solid surface, foam, extrusion, plastics etc, are processed that the machining power really becomes evident.
Processing up to 15,000 lines of g-code per second, the Kimla DVA system knows where it is going before it gets there allowing the feed speed to be continuously regulated depending on the tool path resulting in faster processing times with exceptional finish.
The award-winning Daltons Wadkin website now covers over a dozen different CNC models.
