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Nova Tool & Mold

“We have found our new Hurco VM1 Graphite
machining center to be an excellent investment
in our shop. It’s a very stable platform with excellent accuracy and the price is a fraction
of purpose-built graphite machines quoted by
other suppliers.”

-John Novosel, President

Owned and operated by John Novosel, Sr. and John Novosel, Jr., Nova Tool & Mold of Windsor,
Ontario is a mold shop concentrating mostly on large interior and exterior automotive trim molds. In business since 1989, Nova has built its reputation as a consistent supplier to the Canadian auto supply chain. With 50 employees operating in two shifts, Nova designs and builds all of its products to demanding auto industry specifications. Nova is equipped with the capabilities and experience in both designing and building molds for the plastics industry with the latest technologically advanced equipment.

Hurco Advantage

Recently, John Jr. began searching for a machine that could handle both hard mill roughing and high-speed finish hard milling. He spent a great deal of time evaluating a number of vendors including Mazak, Makino and Haas. The Hurco VMX42S was the only offering that had the power curve in its dual-wound spindle drive that could produce acceptable torque at roughing rpm’s, yet had up to 15,000 rpm for small tool finish machining. The VMX42S is used to hard mill mold sections and inserts.

Additionally, Nova had a need for a machine that could produce large electrodes used in EDM operations. Nova found the new Hurco VM1 Graphite to be an excellent value. While they looked at purpose-built graphite machines from other manufacturers, they were all well over $100,000 (USD). The Hurco machine starts at under $80,000 (USD). By combining a high speed, 30,000 rpm spindle from IBAG with the Hurco VM1, the result is the Hurco VM1 Graphite vertical machining center. After a normal morning warm-up cycle, the machine holds electrode tolerances of =/-0.001" throughout the day.

Since they do not already have a separate, centralized dust collection system, Nova elected to purchase the optional Donaldson Torit system, which they empty on a daily basis due to the amount of volume produced on the machine. The new VM1 Graphite’s performance has met the expectations of Nova Tool & Mold at an incredible value.