Xtrac Invests In Capacity And Capability For Gear Machining

Transmission exertion business, Xtrac, has announced a GB£1 cardinal (€1.15 million) finance successful nan machining centres astatine its office successful Thatcham, UK.

The institution has precocious installed 3 caller pieces of equipment, which will statesman producing parts successful January 2026: a Sodick EDM machine, a CMG Mori-Seiki CNC turning centre, and a Behringer high-performance set saw. Together, nan instrumentality will amended Xtrac’s expertise to present high-precision gearing components.

Wire-cutting capability

Xtrac’s caller Sodick ALC 600P ligament EDM machine

Xtrac’s existing EDM (electro-discharge machining) instrumentality has been augmented pinch nan summation of nan Sodick ALC 600P ligament EDM machine. This instrumentality uses Sodick’s astir precocious generator, has afloat CE certified information specification, and boasts performance, value and accuracy. The EDM instrumentality is basal for cutting soul splines to a higher level of accuracy and repeatability.

Commenting connected nan finance successful EDM technology, Xtrac CEO Adrian Moore said, “This instrumentality will chiefly beryllium utilised to present to nan very highest value required for Xtrac’s gears and splined components utilized successful Formula One engines and gearboxes.

“It will besides beryllium utilized to manufacture gears utilized successful top-level master motorsport bid astir nan world specified arsenic nan all-electric racing Formula E, arsenic good arsenic for hybrid transmission components utilized successful world Sportscar racing specified arsenic nan Le Mans 24-hour race.”

Sustainable CNC turning capability

Fully commissioned successful December 2025, nan DMG Mori-Seiki NLX 2500/700 is an automated and energy-efficient CNC turning centre. This instrumentality is suitable for analyzable parts, pinch features including automated barroom feed; a robotic unload that delivers precocious productivity; process integration (turning and milling); and precocious features specified arsenic Y-axis capability, dual spindles and integer tailstock.

Xtrac has commissioned nan instrumentality to move and mill aggregate types of portion families of soul gearbox components for motorsport and high-performance automotive applications.

The instrumentality is besides capable to run successful ‘lights-out’ mode for larger volumes, adding sizeable other turning and milling capacity. The DMG Mori-Seiki centre will alteration accelerated manufacture of components earlier they acquisition in-house cogwheel cutting, power curen and grinding processes.

Production flexibility

To further summation accumulation flexibility, nan Behringer high-performance HBE Performance Series set saw has besides been installed successful nan 5,000 sq ft (465 m2) metallic mentation area astatine Xtrac’s installation successful Thatcham.

Operating successful conjunction pinch nan existing Behringer equipment, this set saw will trim nan clip spent successful metallic preparation. The elastic configuration will guarantee that earthy worldly of different barroom sizes tin beryllium quickly swapped over, resulting successful reduced clip from customer task motorboat to first machining commencing.

Inspection capability

The caller technologies will complement Xtrac’s existing equipment

In summation to nan acquisition of nan 3 caller pieces of equipment, Xtrac is investing successful upgrading its existing instrumentality to return advantage successful developments successful exertion and software.

In December 2025, its Klingelnberg P40 cogwheel inspection instrumentality was upgraded to deploy nan Swiss / German specialist’s latest closed-loop bevel manufacture process and exertion suite.

As Adrian Moore explained: “This enhancement enables nan manufacturing and inspection of gears to dimensional accuracies only precocious available. It besides improves instrumentality functionality and gives america nan expertise to unlock captious capacity improvements wrong our cogwheel designs.”