Turning centre with a 25mm bar capacity and 405mm between centres offers very small footprint, a very solid machine bed, a thermo-symmetrical headstock with a precision spindle bearing.

At the AMB in Stuttgart, Germany, Emco Maier will unveil its new CNC E25 turning centre for the first time. This machine represents an impressive rounding off at the 'bottom end' of the model scale of the successful E range from Emco. The E25 with a spindle bore of 25mm will be the successor to the popular Emcoturn 325 in the Emco portfolio.

However, the new E25 is anything but just a mere updated version of its predecessor.

Whilst holding to the maxim 'design to cost', which is adhered to for the whole E range, the E25 is a completely new development.

The aim of the development work was an ambitious one: improving the performance, quality and precision at the same time as radically reducing costs.

The first tests have shown that the Emco developers have managed to achieve what the international market expects of the new E25.

The machine offers uncompromising quality levels right down to the last screw - and all this at an unbeatable price.

The standard version of the E25 costs only EUR 39.990.

For their money, customers will get the very best in European technology, with precision, a long service life and an excellent performance.

Emco is expecting a similar run on the E25 as it experienced with its sister model: 'Since we managed to match the low-cost offerings from the Far East with the E45 and E65 in terms of price and performance, many of our customers have been waiting for the continuation of the E range into the compact class,' said Emco's 'upbeat' product manager Gerhard Meisl.

* Impressive technology - the E25 will be available in four different variants - starting with the basic version and including the tailstock version as well as the top-of-the-range model with driven tools and a C axle.

All of the variants are equipped with a 12-head turret with VDI 16 shaft.

The E25, with its very small footprint, offers everything that is good about and expensive in modern machine tool building: a very solid machine bed made from machine casting, a thermo-symmetrical headstock with a precision spindle bearing, pre-stressed roller guides in all of its axles and a fast switching Sauter tool turret.

The customer can choose between a Sinumerik 810D and a Fanuc 0iTC control unit - including dialog programming with ShopTurn or ManualGuide.

And if anybody needs any more convincing about the Emco E25, then they should know that it offers a perfectly aligned bar loader package, that costs just EUR 8.950, inclusive of an alarm lamp and interface.

And any user that needs to feed the E25 with longer bars, will be very pleased to hear about the new Emco Top Load 4-25/3300 bar loader for 3m bars.

Fast facts about the Emco Emcoturn E25 include the following.

* chuck size 25mm.

* Center distance 405mm.

* Speed up to 6300 rev/min.

* Main drive power 5,5kW.

* 12 tool stations, VDI16.

* Six Stations for powered tools.

* About Emco - Emco the Salzburg, Austria, mechanical-engineering company, counts among the leading machine-tool producers in Europe.

Innovative products, high manufacturing quality and attractive design are the essential factors of success of the company that operates in the fields of smart CNC technologies as well as education and training systems.

Emco is part of A-TEC Industries group and currently employs a staff of about 1,000 personnel at six production sites in Austria, Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic.