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First Machine Slated as a Vertical Grinding Machine
Bourn & Koch's new composite platform machine has a no-maintenance, simplified yet flexible design that allows common building blocks of the basic machine to be configured as a:

• vertical OD/ID grinding machine or
• vertical turning center or
• vertical 1 meter gear shaper or
• vertical rotary surface grinder

Integral and linear motors with high precision feed back support vertical grinding or vertical turning, or vertical rotary surface grinding, or gear shaping, or any combination configuration machine of these processes. Each configuration has its own set of associated optional features that enhance the basic machine, peculiar to its machining application. Fewer moving parts, sealed bearings and full CNC controls eliminate the need for maintenance. Common stocked components shorten lead as well as installation times and provide for a faster startup.

The debut iteration of Bourn & Koch's new 1000 mm size series, composite platform machine, the 1000VBG, will be shown at the Gear Expo in Indianapolis, Indiana, booth #741 from September 15-17, 2009. It will be configured as a (1) one meter CNC vertical OD/ID grinder. This version includes optional software with a circular geometry inspection system capable of inspecting roundness and runout. This feature allows gear manufacturers to grind hardened gear IDs and ODs concentric to the pitchline of a finished gear.

The Bourn & Koch 1000VBG will be manufactured to both domestic USA standards and to European CE standards. Standard CNC control is a Siemens 840D.

Read more in the full press announcement, a PDF, available on our website. Quotes are currently available for the one meter, 1.5 meter, and 2.5 meter versions, the 1000VBG, a 1500VBG, and 2500VBG. Additional specialty machine configurations are also possible.

To request a quote or speak with a regional sales manager, please call Star SU LLC at 847-649-1450 or email us at sales@star-su.com.

Bourn & Koch embarked on a global initiative in 2007 to replace the legacy lines of Motch turning centers, Springfield vertical grinders, Blanchard vertical rotary surface grinders and Fellows mid-range mechanical stroking gear shapers. The result in 2009 is the creation of the "composite platform" machine.

Bourn & Koch, Rockford, Ill., is a manufacturer of new machines for its OEM Fellows, Bourn & Koch, Motch, Springfield, Blanchard, Acme and RotoTech machine lines. It also is a custom machine builder and a remanufacturer/retrofitter of many OEM lines of machine tools owned exclusively by Bourn & Koch and other metal cutting machine tools.

Star SU LLC is the go-to-market cooperative of the partnered companies of Bourn & Koch, Star Cut Sales, and SU America (a unit of Samputensili S.p.A). All sales, sales engineering, sales & marketing administration, direct sales force human resources, sales Information Technology, and sales distribution for North America are merged into a single enterprise managed by an executive committee made up of the senior management of the (3) companies. Learn more at www.star-su.com.