MHE, also known as Mackay Harbour Engineering, has invested in a Mazak VCN-600.
MHE, a privately owned company established in 1991, specialises in precision machining, line boring and component rebuilds and services a broad spectrum of industries including the mining, heavy and light industrial, agriculture and marine sectors.
Strategically situated in the industrial hub of Mackay Queensland, MHE has a direct service route to the major mining basins throughout Queensland, and also provides their specialised products and services across the whole of Australia.
The CNC equipment MHE chooses to work with is safe, easy to set up, reduces energy consumption and allows work to be completed at lower production costs.
MHE invests in state-of-the-art machining technology such as the Mazak VCN-600 in order to achieve the best results possible for their customers.
Developed for high performance and precision the Mazak VCN-600 is designed to significantly improve productivity for manufacturers undertaking everything from heavy-duty cutting to high-speed dynamic milling.
The Mazak VCN-600 vertical machining center features a generous working envelope with a 600mm Y axis stroke, along with 1050 mm in the X-axis and 600 mm in the Z-axis.
MHE optioned their VCN-600 with an additional axis, including a servo motor and a Kitigawa MR250 rotary table.
The machine is fitted with a 12,000 RPM / 119.4 NM spindle which offers unsurpassed productivity for a wide range of applications.
The Mazak VCN-600 comes with a cam-driven double arm automatic tool changer with servo-driven 30 tool magazine as standard.
High-rigidity linear roller guides utilised on all linear axes provide improved positioning accuracy compared to slideways. Stable machining accuracy is ensured over an extended time period.
Equipped with MAZATROL SmoothG CNC control which incorporates a wide variety of advanced CNC programming functions that allow it to offer complete ease of use and ensure high-speed, high-accuracy CNC machining performance.