Eng. Sala tells: How did the Linea Spindle multispindle come about?

Over the last 40 years, together with my colleagues, I have developed high-precision production turning machines capable of churning out extremely precise parts in large quantities for companies with sizeable production volumes.

Over time, we have accumulated the skills and know-how to make us the market leader in certain niche sectors, and allow us to export our machinery across the entire world. Our first products ranged from gas taps to the subsequent specialization that allowed us to develop ball valve production machines. All while trying to reconcile our commitment to guaranteeing the highest quality pieces with the need to satisfy ever increasing volumes.



This is how we came to produce machines that became famous for their originality the world over. Machines with vertical spindles arranged in line, with such ergonomics that several manually loaded and unloaded units could be easily accessible to the operator. These were, therefore, manual machines whose attention to ergonomics, from the point of view of productivity, had led to a decidedly original configuration, specially designed for the needs and production methods of that time. The operator could finally have a machine that was more accessible, easier to use and guaranteed a much higher productivity than the usual.

But time passes and things change, especially in the constantly evolving world of production, and so the machines have evolved too, and, thanks to the introduction of automation and numerical control, it has been possible to increase their productivity even further, reduce tooling times and, at the same time, improve the quality of the finished products, to ever lower dimensional tolerances.

In the end, it was the market itself that asked for these machines to produce other types of parts than they were originally designed for. It is precisely in response to this need that we developed our linear multi-spindles. Our idea was to provide an innovative solution for the production of entirely machined parts in both large and small volumes. What we tried to do, therefore, was to achieve the concept of production flexibility that today is the key to success. The goal was the development of a machine that would meet the demand of the market for production systems ever more capable of readily adapting to its new rules.