Example Applications > CNC Machine Building Beams
CompoTech Graphite / Carbon Nano Tube Beams
. . . A Revolutionary, Disruptive, or Sustaining Technology ?
for the CNC Machine Building Industry
The CNC Machine Building industry is the supplier for the arms race that is driving every industry, worldwide, to seek ever increasing productivity in the face of soaring energy and material prices.
This industry is about to witness a new technology that will see the productivity of their machines double. This technology is driven by beams made of Carbon and Graphite Fibres from CompoTech
The reason is simple. Carbon and Graphite fibres have unique elastic modulus, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity and density properties. For Graphite Fibres in a suitable matrix, these properties are significantly better than any other conventional alloy material.
CompoTech have developed a new production processes that capture these properties and are able to supply beams to the CNC Machine building sector that have significantly improved vibration and thermal stability characteristics. The Natural Frequency of these beams can easily be three times higher than steel, and the axial thermal expansion can be nearly zero.
One of the many succesfull applications is in the press shops of car manufacturers. The increased natural frequency of the transfer beam enables the press to increase from 10 to 15 strokes/min. New generation presses will be up to 25 strokes/min and can only be used to effect with CompoTech transfer beams.
CompoTech will be exhibiting their range of beams at Materialica ’08, 14th - 16th October, Neue Messe München, and will have a 300mm x 300mm x 1120mm Spindle Beam on the stand, C4 421