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gantry, 5-axis profiling, long-bed CNC mill/rout machine will utilize powerful, 7000 rev/min, 70HP gear-driven spindles to simultaneously machine extruded titanium structuresCincinnati Machine announces that it has received an order from RTI Claro, Montreal, Canada, for a dual gantry, 5-axis Wide-Range Profiler. The machines will utilize powerful, 7000 rev/min, 70HP gear-driven spindles to simultaneously machine titanium structures (made from extruded product). The dual gantry configuration will operate on 240ft of X-axis rail with multiple spindles delivering full 5-axis contouring capabilities.

A newly re-designed spindle support housing reduces overall moving mass and will significantly improve Z and B-axes servo response and machining dynamics.

Extensive Finite Element Modeling, a core in-house engineering area of expertise for Cincinnati Machine, was utilized in the re-design of this critical structural, moving element of the machine.

Cincinnati’s Wide-Range Profiler product has field-proven, ‘best-in-class’, multi-spindle, heavy titanium cutting capabilities demonstrated at installations around the globe.

While this machine has dynamic stiffness optimized for aggressive high metal removal rates in titanium and other hard metal alloys, the dual range geared transmission enables very high-volume aluminum and other light alloy 5-axis machining with continuous 70HP available at spindle speeds up to 7,000 rev/min.

RTI Claro, a machining and assembly solutions provider to the aerospace market for more than four decades, chose Cincinnati Machine for its quality machines and proven experience in machining the expensive metal.

Working with parent company, RTI International Metals, a leading supplier of titanium to global aircraft manufacturers, RTI Claro will leverage its new capitol investment to cost-effectively respond to the increasing demand for titanium aircraft parts.

The first gantry is scheduled to ship from Cincinnati Machine’s recently expanded manufacturing facility in April 2007.

The second gantry will ship the following July.

* About Cincinnati Machine - Cincinnati Machine designs, builds and integrates advanced manufacturing solutions for the global aerospace, automotive, heavy equipment, energy and general machining markets.

The company’s broad machine tool line includes automated composites processing equipment, profilers, routers, large horizontal and vertical machining centers including 5-axis, multi-tasking and cells.

Cincinnati Machine, together with Giddings and Lewis and Cincinnati Automation and Test, comprise Cincinnati Technologies, a unit of MAG industrial automation Systems.

For more information about Cincinnati Machine, please visit www.cinmach.com * About MAG Industrial Automation Systems - MAG Industrial Automation Systems (MAG-IAS), Sterling Heights, MI, is a group of leading machine tool and systems companies serving the durable-goods industry, worldwide, with a large portfolio of highly-recognized and well-respected brands.

With manufacturing operations on five continents, MAG-IAS ranks as a leader in the global metalworking capital equipment market.

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