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Kurt Manufacturing Appointed Exclusive North American Marketing Agent
For Vischer & Bolli "VB DockLock®" Zero-Point Workholding System
Minneapolis,
Minnesota: Kurt Manufacturing Company, Industrial Products Division, announced that it has signed an exclusive agreement with Vischer & Bolli of Dubendorf, Switzerland to market the VB DockLock® Zero-Point Workholding System in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The announcement was made jointly by Mr. Kurt Bolli of Vischer & Bolli and Mr. Steve Kane, sales and marketing manager for Kurt. The agreement is effective November 1, 2005 with the VB DockLock to be marketed through an exclusive Kurt distributor dealer network.
The VB DockLock system integrates with workholding devices such as Kurt vises and provides fast, accurate and repeatable setup on machining centers. Time consuming vise alignment and bolt down tasks are eliminated. The system consists of a patented hydraulic actuated locking cylinder device that positions and locks the vise onto the machine worktable. It allows the user to locate or remove the workholding from a machine, or move it offline or to another machine and/or back again in just seconds with zero-point positioning accuracy every time.
"The VB DockLock system is an ideal extension of Kurt Vises and workholding products," stated Mr. Kane for Kurt. "Our vise customers are looking for ways to improve productivity with their workholding. Using Kurt vises with the VB DockLock provides an ideal solution for reducing setup time. It's an excellent product for new machining center applications and is a great option for upgrading existing workholding."
Mr. Bolli reported, "VB DockLock system users achieve repeatable ±0.0005 accuracy on typical part runs with high quality finishes, no scrap parts, and very significant setup time savings. Where several machining centers operating two or three shifts are included in a VB DockLock/ Kurt workholding setup, the productivity gain potential is enormous."
Vischer & Bolli has been a leading European precision workholding supplier since 1957. The VB DockLock is widely used throughout Europe by leading precision manufacturers. By partnering with Kurt in North America, Vischer & Bolli said it expects to gain rapid product awareness through Kurt's established distribution and customer base.
First introduced in 1961, Kurt vises are the world leader with more than 500,000 vises sold during that period. Kurt offers a full line of single and multiple station vises and towers and is the only vise manufacturer to offer a Lifetime Ironclad Warrantee. |
