Star GB received nine orders for sliding-headstock turn-milling machines at its open house exhibition, held from 18th to 22nd October 2004 at the company¹ s Melbourne showroom.

Star GB received nine orders for sliding-headstock turn-milling machines at its open house exhibition, held from 18th to 22nd October 2004 at the company' s Melbourne showroom. Three additional lathes were sold during October, bringing total order intake for the month to over £1.2 million. All were single-machine orders from subcontractors, three of which are new customers to Star and first-time users of sliding-headstock lathes.

Unsurprisingly, therefore, four of the orders were for Star's entry-level, 16 mm bar capacity machine, the SB-16.

At the other end of the scale, among the three 32 mm capacity machines sold was the new SR-32J platen-configured model, on show for the first time in Europe, as well as a top-end capability ECAS-32T turret-type machine.