EXTRUDE HONE Corporation to Exhibit New Electrolytic Machine at IMTS 2006 Exposition and Conference in Chicago

Irwin, Pa. (PRWEB) June 14, 2006

EXTRUDE HONE® Corporation announced today plans to exhibit its new DeskLineTM machine, which features its Electrolytic Machining (ECM) process, at the IMTS 2006 Show in Chicago, IL, from September 6 – 13, 2006. Extrude Hone representatives will be available at Hall B, Booth #7100 to discuss this latest addition to the company’s innovative line of advanced finishing and deburring technologies.

With the entry-level DeskLine machine, Extrude Hone offers customers all the innovation and feature-rich capabilities inherent in its larger ECM machines. In addition, it’s priced well under the annual costs of manual deburring operations, making the DeskLine machine an affordable automated solution for many manufacturers.

Compared to manual deburring, which is proven to be tedious, unreliable, time-consuming, and costly for large and small companies alike, Extrude Hone’s DeskLine machine boosts productivity substantially. In fact, it is capable of increasing productivity levels by up to 10 times over labor-intensive manual deburring methods. Typical DeskLine cycle times range from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.

While a smaller-scale machine designed for lower production volumes, the DeskLine is uncompromising in its ECM precision, reliability, and performance. A metal dissolution process, ECM uses a safe, low voltage DC electrical current applied to the tooling and workpiece while flowing an electrolyte between both surfaces to dissolve unwanted metal.

The DeskLine machine works with part-specific tooling that precision deburrs equally well on both external and internal surfaces, and particularly difficult to access internal hole intersections.

According to Jim Koroskenyi, Managing Director of Extrude Hone’s ECM Business Unit, the DeskLine machine fulfills a niche within the U.S. manufacturing marketplace. “The ECM market in Europe is much more mature,” explains Koroskenyi. “In the U.S., the ECM process is not as widely known and is considered an emerging innovation. With the availability of an advanced ECM product line, more manufacturers will be able to address perhaps the most critical and challenging part of any manufacturing process— deburring.” The DeskLine machine capacity is rated at 3 kW (100 A/30 V), more than twice the capacity of Extrude Hone’s MiniBurr product line, yet it is compact enough to fit within a 63-inch x 32-inch (1600mm x 800mm) footprint. IMTS attendees are encouraged to stop by booth #2412 to learn more about the DeskLine machine and the entire ECM product line, as well as Extrude Hone’s other surface finishing and deburring technologies.

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