Mazak adds to its Kentucky manufacturing campus

To support the production of the Kentucky-designed and built line of Syncrex Swiss-style machine tools, Mazak has expanded its Florence, Ky., manufacturing campus with the addition of the Syncrex Assembly Plant.

The 27,000-sq.-ft. building combines engineering, production, and applications support for this line of machine tools.

With an output capacity of up to 10 machines per month, the new building can produce 16 different models within the line. The machines come in four barstock capacities and four different axis configurations. Production flow through the building starts with a machined base that progresses through assembly operations and on to alignment, testing, inspection, and runoff procedures prior to shipping.

“While the building’s name is the Syncrex Assembly Plant, a lot more than just assembly happens there,” said Kevin Sekerak, plant manager at Mazak. “Within the new building’s production flow, we’ve incorporated applications support, which is extremely critical for this particular type of machine. That support entails integrating various forms of automation and other ancillary systems together with the machines, then proving them out to make sure they all operate to customer performance requirements and specifications. Often, applications specialists will work side by side with assembly technicians during customer runoffs of a machine.”

The company also produces the line’s spindles, headstocks, sheet metal, and other key components in Kentucky.