Higher productivity, lower energy consumption and offloading of the machine-drive – these are the highlights of the new carbon, ultra-light clamping devices that HAINBUCH, now offers for machine tools as well as  for machining centers. Thanks to the new material the new carbon fiber clamping devices are as much as two thirds lighter than the standard versions, however they are even stronger and more rigid – with identical clamping force values.

An example using a lathe shows this clearly: Simply by replacing a TOPlus combi pull-back clamping device made of steel with its equivalent lightweight clamping device made of carbon, can reduce the time for spindle acceleration to maximum speed by 30%. It is not just the reduced power costs due to the lower mass that make a difference. More precise tests also showed a piece rate reduction by as much as 6%. Thus for highly dynamic machine tools that machine steel chuck parts with cycle times of approx. 60 seconds, in multi-shift operation the annual capacity can quickly be increased by ten thousand components. The potential is correspondingly higher for materials such as brass or aluminium.