Bourn & Koch to Host Open House During IMTS Week – Tours of Shop Floor, Historic Print Archives, and Machine Demonstrations
See all that Bourn & Koch has to offer in two locations - IMTS and Rockford Events
ROCKFORD, IL, September 12 and 14, 2018 – The global manufacturing community is invited to receive a behindthe-scenes look into how precision machine tools are being built, right here in America, during the Bourn & Koch “Made in America” open house on Wednesday, September 12 and Friday, September 14, 2018.
Tours will be held in Rockford at 10am and 2pm both days of the open house. Included in the tours will be a display of select original prints from Blanchard, Fellows, Springfield, DeVlieg, Bullard, Barber Coleman and many other brands which Bourn & Koch, as OEM for 35 American machine tool brands, is curating.
Full factory tours during the event include the 130,000 square foot shop floor where Bourn & Koch remanufactures classic American machine tools to OEM specifications and also builds brand new Springfield vertical grinders, Blanchard rotary grinders, Bourn & Koch gear hobbers, Fellows shapers and DeVlieg milling machines with the latest technology and designs. A highlight of the tour will be demonstrations of a newly redesigned and reengineered Blanchard 22AD-42 rotary surface grinder.
Resident historian, engineer, and Bourn & Koch co-founder, Loyd Koch, will be greeting visitors during the two-day Rockford event. Light refreshments and beverages will be served. RSVP to Tyler Free at Bourn & Koch: tfree@bourn-koch.com.
Bourn & Koch is located in Rockford, Illinois’ industrial zone, which is approximately 90 miles from McCormick Place. For those who cannot attend the open house during IMTS, other tour dates are available by appointment request.
Bourn & Koch will be simultaneously exhibiting at IMTS 2018, September 10-15 in Chicago, booth #236854 (North building, level 3). The company will be showcasing their full line of machine tool solutions including the Springfield VBG vertical grinder, a fully automated Fellows 10-4 gear shaper, Bourn & Koch 100H-T turning and hobbing center, and Blanchard 8AD-12 surface grinder. The Springfield VBG offers precision grinding down to 0.0001” as well as integrated vertical turning for single-step production and in-process inspection.
The remanufactured Fellows 10-4 integrates patented electronic crowning and taper technology, BKI-S-HMI and Easy Automate enclosure for standard 3-axis (or optional 6-axis) CNC gear shaping with Fanuc 0i control. The Fellows 10-4 is an affordable way for job shops to introduce high-quality gear manufacturing to their operations. New to the machine is electronic helical guide capability. The machine will be demonstrated with a Halter robot for autoloading.
The Bourn & Koch 100H-T gear hobber with seven-station turning turret is capable of turning, boring, and hobbing up to AGMA Class-13 gears in one setup to save floor space, reduce overall cycle times and increase workpiece accuracy. Shipped with patent-pending Adjustable Hob Arbor Spacers and BKI-H-HMI, the machine allows easy setup, programming and manufacturing by novice operators.
The Blanchard 8AD-12 surface grinder is an iconic machine tool, producing the characteristic “Blanchard Grind” synonymous with quality ground parts. Like the Blanchard 22AD-42 being demonstrated at the “Made in America” Rockford open house, the smaller Blanchard 8AD-12 in the Bourn & Koch booth at IMTS is re-imagined and reengineered to meet today’s manufacturing challenges.
About Bourn & Koch
Bourn & Koch, Inc. is located in Rockford, Illinois. The company celebrated their 40th year in business in 2015. Bourn & Koch, Inc. is known best as an American manufacturer of new precision machine tools under the Bourn & Koch, Fellows, Blanchard, DeVlieg, Motch and Springfield brands. They are also the OEM for a long list of wellknown American made machine tools such as Acme, American Tool Works, Barber-Colman, Brown & Sharpe, Bullard, Conomatic, DeVlieg, Jones & Lamson, King, Mattison, Rockford Machine Tool, Springfield, and White Sundstrand. They provide quality OEM parts, field service, rebuild and retrofit services for these machines. More information can be found at http://www.bourn-koch.com/.
For further information contact:
Joe Goral Sr.
815-713-2316
jgoral@bourn-koch.com
