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Volume 63, Issue 7
1 July 1991
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| July 01 1991

Hitachi Seiki Boosts Machining Efficiency on Rocket Motor Components

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1991
Aircraft Engineering (1991) 63 (7): 16–19.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb037129

DURING the past 18 months, BAJ (part of Meggitt Aerospace) has spent over £1 million on advanced CNC machine tools for its Avon‐based factory. And for the precise machining of rocket motor cases the company selected a VK 45 vertical machining centre from Hitachi Seiki UK.

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