www SMTCLca 6 SEPTEMBER 2011 TECHNOLOGY TODA Y S M T C L c h a n g i n g t h e w a y y o u l o o k a t m a c h i n e t o o l s f r o m m a i n l a n d C h i n a F or years many of us only considered machine tools from Mainland China for mostly manual machining operations When we were challenged with more sophisticated work it was only the machines manufactured by the more familiar machine tool builders that we considered Many of us assumed Mainland China only started building machine tools fairly recently say within the past 30 to 50 years Y ou might be surprised to hear that Shenyang Machine T ools or SMTCL started manufacturing machine tools over 100 years ago and for quite some time had a long range plan to market their machinery worldwide T o improve their knowledge base SMTCL seized the opportunity to purchase SCHIESS GmbH a German heavyduty machine tool builder which has 150 years of history This was the beginning of building a market leader that some day could compete with the other major machine tool builders at an international level Predictably SMTCL began to work with their new German part ners on the development of a major line of sophisticated large format machine tools It might surprise you that some of the advanced machine tools you purchased from well know builders in Europe were manufactured under contract by SMTCL S M T C L p r o d u c t s c a n b e d i v i d e d i n t o t w o c a t e g o r i e s C N C m a c h i n e t o o l s i n c l u d i n g C N C l a t h e C N C m i l l i n g b o r i n g m a c h i n e v e r t i c a l m a c h i n i n g c e n t e r h o r i z o n t a l m a c h i n i n g c e n t e r g a n t r y t y p e m a c h i n i n g c e n t e r e t c a n d t h e s e c o n d g r o u p c o n v e n t i o n a l m a c h i n e t o o l s i n c l u d i n g c o n v e n t i o n a l l a t h e r a d i a l d r i l l i n g m a c h i n e h o r i z o n t a l b o r i n g m a c h i n e a n d m u l t i a x i s a u t o m a t i c l a t h e SMTCL machines are available in over 300 varieties and with a thousand available specifcations thus enabling the Com pany to satisfy any of your precision machining requirements cutting knurling and milling or boring drilling and turning Currently SMTCL products are extensively utilized in scores of industries such as automotive national defense and military aerospace and aviation railway transportation and much more The recent China International Machine T ool Show successfully showcased 1222 exhibitors from 28 countries in over 110000 square meters of exhibit space making it the fourth largest ma chine tool exhibition in the world The show which had atten dance exceeding 265600 visitors featured most of the major NEW GMC2590u GantryStyle 5Axis V ertical Machining Center