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Volume 59, Issue 3
1 March 1987
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| March 01 1987

Turning Centre Produces Aerospace Components over 50% Faster, and Eliminates Grinding

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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1987
Aircraft Engineering (1987) 59 (3): 23–24.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb036415

HIGH precision aerospace components are being machined up to 53 percent faster compared with conventional methods at Paterex Ltd's Orpington factory since the company installed a GD 160‐42 five‐axis turning centre from Gildemeister (UK) Ltd.

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