Machining Facilities Launch Drives American Manufacturing
New five-axis machining center accompanies the opening of 40,000 foot expansion to Ingersoll Machine Tools facility.
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Ingersoll Machine Tools launches its largest and most advanced machining center, the five-axis MasterMill, as part of a new 40,000 square foot expansion for manufacturing, assembly and extended testing facility in Rockford, Illinois.
The MasterMill and facility are initially undertaking complex machining for the US Navy and manufacturing large components for the Giant Magellan Telescope. The company says the MasterMill and facility also spearhead the growth of American manufacturing, private-public partnerships, job creation, skills advancement and development of young manufacturing leaders.
The grand opening event includes advanced manufacturing demonstrations using MasterPrint Robotic, Ingersoll’s robotic version of its XL thermoplastic 3D printer. There are also demonstrations with MasterPrint Metal, the world’s largest metal 3D-printer, and the Mongoose Hybrid, Ingersoll’s multi-process composite manufacturing platform.
Mongoose is used for space, aerospace and defense projects. It plans to soon produce the main structures for the world’s largest optical telescope, which will be assembled in the new building.
Ingersoll Machine Tools provides many other advanced manufacturing processes while also supplying additive and subtractive machine tools for the aerospace, defense, energy and all heavy industrial sectors worldwide. Together with Innse-Berardi, Ingersoll constitutes the Camozzi Machine Tools division of the Camozzi Group.
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