Sarah and Alex Ramsay show off a CNC-milled component in their new factory room at United Machinists in South Dunedin. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSONAfter spending $2.3million on new equipment, United Machinists bosses Alex and Sarah Ramsay could be forgiven for sweating a little when work orders dipped perilously low after the lockdown. The Mazak Variaxis I-300 work centre has a 40-pallet work-changing centre as well as a 265-tool holding capacity. The other machine is a Mazak Integrex J200S twin-spindle multitasking work centre, which is able to make micro to medium sized mill-turned components. Those two machines cost $1.7million and the new factory room they are housed in was another $600,000 for which the company received $520,000 from the provincial growth fund.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 12, 2020 16:30 UTC