1st Machine Tool Accessories was established to offer a comprehensive selection of top-quality products at competitive prices. The aim is to be your first stop for high quality workholding products with excellent technical support and assistance.
To achieve this we offer:
• Specialist engineers to carry out site visits, advise on the most appropriate workholding methods for individual applications and if possible, offer demonstration of the products performance.
• A dedicated team of technical engineers to answer your questions, provide solutions and offer outstanding service.
• A constantly expanding and updated product range to give you the best possible choice, including: Kitagawa, Breuning IRCO, Chick, SINCO, Abbott, Leave, Darex, Brighetti, OK-Vise, Walmag, Eclipse, V-Tech, TdeG, Effecto, Wogaard, BEST.
• Careful reviewing or our business partners and suppliers to maintain a level of quality that is unrivalled, to give you peace of mind and satisfaction guaranteed.
• Customised solutions – wherever possible we develop tailored solutions based on components from our extensive standard range which offers significant cost and time advantages. However, if required, we are happy to go back to basics and produce totally bespoke, “one-off” items to meet your requirements.
1st MTA, a keen advocate of automating machine tools, regards some level of unattended operation to be crucial for cost-efficiency and generating a healthy profit. However, investment in a full robotic system is not a prerequisite for success, or justifiable in some smaller factories and 1st MTA, specialists in workholding, will be showcasing alternative options:
• As simple as employing hydraulic rather than manual clamping to actuate chuck jaw closure on a lathe or machining centre.
• Using a rotary table to add a fourth and perhaps a fifth CNC axis to a 3-axis machining centre so that parts can be made in fewer operations.
• Special jaws on a standard chuck or utilising one with non-standard features: long jaw stroke, face pull-down, internal clamping, quick change.
• Quick-change workholding for vertical- or horizontal-spindle machining centres that be easily be adapted from a standard unit to one that is bespoke to the component being produced. Systems can be single or multiple and fitted on a rotating axis, allowing multiple sides of one or more components to be accessed by the cutter.
• Multiple clamping arrangements offer even longer machine running times and less loading time, meaning better repeatability of component set-up from one batch to the next.
Everyone at 1st MTA wants to ensure we provide our customers with the perfect workholding solutions to suit their requirements. 1st MTA is focused on delivering the best customer service possible and is happy to discuss any requirements and offer advice. We are not looking to push a hard sell, but to get acquainted with your and your needs to provide suitable solutions that work for you. When you come to 1st MTA, you will have the necessary support and expertise on-hand to feel confident about your purchase.
Our customers say:
“We have dealt with 1st MTA for decade and always find them professional in their approach and technically knowledgeable. They recommend the best product for an application, even though it might cost less than others in their range.”
“1st MTA has done a good job providing us with consultancy, helping us to develop optimal workpiece clamping across eight of the ten pallets in our Okuma cell. They offer such a vast range of products that it was almost inevitable there would be a workholding solution to suit all the components we manufacture.”
