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NEW FACILITIES OPEN HOUSE DURING IMTS, SEPTEMBER 12 & 13 Features Tour of New Demo Center
Bourn & Koch will host an open house Friday and Saturday, September 12 and 13 from 10 am until 4 pm during IMTS 2008 in Chicago. A tour of the new 27,700 square foot engineering center and office building and the new 800 square foot demonstration center at its Kishwaukee Street site in Rockford, IL. Food and refreshments will be served.
To make your reservations for the open house, to learn more about bus schedules between Chicago (IMTS), Rockford, IL, and O'Hare to and from the open house or to receive driving directions, please contact Cathy Manske at cmanske@bourn-koch.com or call 815-965-4013 Ext 2305.
Bourn & Koch New 400H CNC (7) Axis Horizontal Hobber at IMTS 2008
Bourn & Koch will exhibited the 400H CNC 7 axis extended bed horizontal gear hobbing machine at the IMTS 2008.
The machine is configured with an extended bed for long shaft lengths, a GE Fanuc 16i CNC control with touch screen, and a direct drive work spindle. Interest is the machine was high. To get a Quick Quote for this machine, along with the machine specifications click Submit.

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Bourn & Koch and Star SU Launch Quick Quotes Page
Bourn & Koch and Star SU have launched a Quick Quote webpage where customers can view machine specifications and get a customized machine quotation in 24 to 48 hours anywhere in the world. The webpage is currently populated with some of Bourn & Koch's horizontal hobbing machines and Fellows gear shapers. The webpage will continue to be updated with new Quick Quotes throughout the rest of 2008.
To view the page go to Quick Quotes. |

To download our new product brochure click here. |
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LONG, LONGER, LONGEST Bourn & Koch Ships Extended Bed 600H CNC (6) Axis Horizontal Hobbing Machines
Bourn & Koch has shipped (4) new extended bed 600H CNC (6) Axis Horizontal Hobbing Machines for domestic and international customers. Delivery began in September 2007 and was completed in March of 2008. These machines are designed to accommodate shaft parts, respectively, of 100", 148", 180" and 280". Machines are equipped, depending on the customer, with full enclosures, partial enclosure, or traveling controls with a traveling splash screen. Machines for applications to 550" (14 meters) length have been engineered.
Bourn & Koch Delivers (2) New Fellows HS1280-300 Hydrostroke Gear Shapers
Bourn & Koch has shipped two of the new HS1280-300 Hydrostroke Gear Shapers, the new design replacing the old 50-8 and FS1270-300 designs.
What makes the clever electro-mechanical HS design of interest to users around the world for machines in the 50"-60" (1280 - 1500 mm) size range is not only the improvement of the heart of the Hydrostroke principle, but the 50% reduction in the number of piece parts previously used in the FS design series.

Key electro-mechanical design features that give the HS1280-300 machine a shaping advantage over the legacy 50-8's are:
- Elevating cutter slide for vertical positioning - 300 mm travel
- 12" (300 mm) face width cutting capability
- CNC servo backoff
- Direct drive cutter and workspindles, no gear drives
- Oriented Stiffness Back-Off
- GE Fanuc 30iB CNC control with PC front end and touch screen
- New HPU with sound enclosure
For a quick tour of the HS compared to the FS design features for the HS1280-300 click to can download a pictorial overview. |