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Belotti 5-axis machining centres seen through cpc's experience: Carbon fibre in luxury car manufacturing
To take stock of the situation less than a year after

This is a transcript of our conversation with Mr Franco

installing the latest machining centre, we visited Mr

Iorio:

Franco Iorio, owner of CPC srl, located in Modena

precision and repeatability control.

How would you consider the prospective
market development for composite materials?

on carbon-fibre market developments and the wide

Belotti: What manufacturing requirements
led you to purchase your machining centres?

range of applications for our machinery. Set up as

Franco Iorio: Our basic requirement arose from CPC's

a small owner-operated business in the 1950s, CPC

new business mission. Belotti machining centres were greatly invested in his sector. Nowadays, the latest

has since developed into a cutting-edge reference

introduced to support our presses for carbon-fibre

trends concern energy saving, pollution and electric

company for prototyping metal and composite material

product compression moulding, with a view to high

drive vehicles, and I am sure these issues will lead

processing for the automotive sector. When visiting their

production. Belotti machining centres are equipped

to a remarkable increase in the use of composite

manufacturing facilities, we were shown the operation

with a twin shuttle, which means that the spindle

materials.

of three Belotti machining centres, with special focus on

is continuously operating, resulting in considerable

the latest model, FLA 5526, equipped with twin shuttle

growth in the production volume.

How would you regard the future
developments of our business relationship?

Why did you choose a Belotti machining
centre?

F.I. : My positive view on the developments of the

F.I. : After thorough market research, we based our

the cooperation between our companies, including a

choice of a Belotti machining centre on our actual

prospective extension of our manufacturing facilities.

performance data concerning a machining centre

I strongly hope that my faith in future expansion will

we purchased eight years ago, which has performed

lead us to do more business together.

(Italy), who welcomed us and answered our questions

and angle head, in order to reduce overall spindle
dimensions which would hinder workpiece processing,
in this case a tailgate support for a carbon fibre supercar.

F.I. : As a businessman, I have a positive outlook on
the development of these materials, that is why I have

composite-material industrial sector also extends to

extremely well over continuous operation. The
machining centre is user-friendly and ensures fast
operation, which allows competitive performance
for this kind of processing, while guaranteeing high

To learn more please visit:
www.belotti.com and www.modelleriacpc.it

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