40 ton lathe
40 Ton Lathe
Marthinusen & Coutts (M&C), a division of ACTOM (Pty) Ltd, recently acquired a large 40 ton numerically controlled lathe to cater for precision machining of the following critical components:
- Large rotating work pieces such as generator rotors, turbines, large fans, blowers, large rotor shafts and rotor journals
- Work pieces up to 40 tons
- 10 meters between centres
- 3.2 meters swing
- This is one of the largest lathes on the continent
- Upgraded from semi-automatic to a high precision numerically controlled machine.
The 40 ton lathe has been installed at M&C’s dedicated power generation equipment repair and refurbishment facility in Benoni and is being used to machine rotors and other work pieces of a wide range of large electrical and mechanical rotating equipment.
With this service now offered in-house, M&C and ACTOM Turbo Machines can assist customers with machining of all large critical, precision rotating mechanical equipment.
