Marlor Tooling is expanding its
sales into the medical tool and
instrument markets, backed by
Rollomatic technology
Inset: The Rollomatic machine
work envelope
New opportunities
The arrival of new technology, in one case a Rollomatic at UK tool grinding fi rm Marlor and in another an
enhancement to ANCA’s EDGe-related software, makes possible new capabilities that promise to enhance
their users’ cutting tool manufacturing operations
In what is perhaps a sign of the times,
Peterborough-based Marlor Tooling is
expanding its sales into the medical tool
and instrument markets, having installed a
Rollomatic Shapesmart CNC tool grinding
machine (Advanced Grinding Solutions,
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production capacity boost.
The second-generation family business is
located in a new, state-of-the-art production
facility and has 12 CNC tool and cutter
grinding machines, plus various other CNC
machines including EDM, drilling and
inspection machines. Nearly all of the
company’s sales are to other tool
manufacturers and it sells directly to very
few end users of cutting tools.
Martyn Cross, works director at Marlor,
explains that after identifying a production
bottle neck, the company has looked at
many CNC cylindrical grinding machines on
numerous occasions over the last three or
four years, with the need for fast set-up
times and exibility to make high precision
tools the focus. The Rollomatic MP3+
machine was chosen and is, says Cross,
possibly the most transformative machine
purchase that Marlor has ever made. Small
or large batches of tools are now all
produced in house, with results
demonstrating incredible surface nish and
adherence to the tightest of tolerances.
Part of Rollomatic’s ShapeSmart range,
these are designed for grinding tool blanks
and similar stepped cylindrical components,
and employ the peel-grinding method, a
technology invented by Rollomatic. This new
generation of cylindrical grinding machine has
been improved to offer fast set-ups and
superior grinding quality, including both rough
and nish grinding in a single automatic
operation, for diameters up to 25 mm, with a
Renishaw probe handling length positioning.
The investment has allowed Marlor to
enter the market for medical tool blanks for
the rst time, with the company securing
several high value orders, including the one
pictured (above) and where the rst batch of
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