At the occasion of a customer day, Heinrich Georg GmbH Maschinenfabrik presented its new roll grinding machine type ultragrind 700 R. The new machine is designed for center lengths of 5,000mm, grinding diameters of up to 700mm and roll weights up to 10 tons. The machine works fully automatically and reportedly impresses by its high grinding qualities in conventional and CBN grinding. Due to many special design solutions, its solid structure and innovative measuring technologies the machine achieves high precision and at the same time short setting and machining cycles.

More than 70 experts from roll grinding shops of leading steel and aluminum producers as well as experts from roll manufacturers and engineering offices came to see the machine in "live" operation prior to dispatch to the customer Baosteel, China. At first Georg demonstrated the grinding of a work roll in the conventional way and later in CBN technology. In addition GEORG displayed a HSS work roll of a hot rolling mill with CVC profile and a profile height of 1,85mm that had been ground before with a CBN disc.

During the demonstrations the visitors could inspect the high quality of the machine. According to the company, everyone was impressed by the fine surface quality of the ground rolls, neither comma nor feed marks could be detected. They confirmed that whilst the grinding operations took place no vibrations or swing motions of the machine could be felt and that the machine was running very smooth; this applies to the conventional and to the CBN grinding method as well.

A number of design measures enable Georg to reach excellent grinding results, short handling and machining cycles, as well as a long lifetime of the machine. Just to mention the headstock that can be displaced as a whole with fixed main axis and displaceable counter part, the hydrostatic bearing of the grinding spindle and the grinding carriage, the very precise U-axis with a resolution of 0,01 µm, the U1-axis for exact horizontal roll alignment and finally the complete equipment of measuring and control techniques.