Held on February 24th & 25th at Birmingham’s NEC; this was the first event of the year for Beaubury. Being blow mould manufacturers and bottle designers, we weren’t entirely sure which service would keep us busiest; as it turned out we seemed to be pretty well placed on both sides as we were able to support our existing customers with their enquiries for tooling, as well as fresh, new enquiries for tooling and bottle concept design.
As a result of changing to solid carbide tools, the drilling of waterway features in moulds is now five times faster than before, owing to the combination of higher speeds and feeds.
The result is an enviable position as one of the UK’s leading designers and manufacturers of blow moulds used in the production of plastics [...]
For the development of the Nemesis bottles Northumbria Blow Mouldings worked with specialist blow moulding toolmaker Beaubury Precision Moulds, and between them they have devised tooling which can run with both PET and HDPE, enabling the Nemesis range to be offered in both materials…
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Selection of the correct cutting tools for the job has been a major contributor to Beaubury
Precision Moulds’ success over the past 30 years. `Our entire production is taken up with the
design development and manufacture of plastic blow mould tooling — which are typically
produced from Dural QC7 aluminium tooling billets and Bohler M300 stainless mould steels
especially [...]
‘We were looking to purchase our first 5-axis machine’ stated Beaubury’s Production Director, Paul Mathews. ‘We were also drilling deep holes and encountering huge problems. However,on selecting a 5-axis Deckel Maho DMU 60P we knew we would experience holding problems hitting all sides at 18K. As a jobbing shop machining one-offs we had always made [...]
Investing in a DMU60P 5-axis machining centre from DMG has enabled Beaubury Precision Moulds to produce moulds in
four-six weeks, and sometimes two, compared with 12
As specialists in the manufacture of blow moulds for ‘Blue-chip’ companies in the cosmetics, household products and automotive industries, competitive pressure ensures that Beaubury Precision Moulds (BPM) is continually evaluating new product developments [...]
September 2009
Beaubury’s latest machine acquisition is a Bridgeport Hardinge XR-1000 machining centre – details of which are as follows:
The XR-1000 is the latest machine from the Bridgeport stable and is fitted with a Renishaw probing system to minimise setup time and for on machine inspection. Rapid traverse rates of 50m/min, X/Y/Z travels of 1020 x [...]
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