High dynamic 5 Axis vertical machining centre with gantry modular design and expandable configuration

The right combination of robustness and stability makes it ideal for high-speed milling and trimming operations on elements with complex three-dimensional shapes made of light alloys, polymers and resins or composite materials.

Breton Hawx

Reasons why

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Robustness and stability over time
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Unbeatable footprint ratio
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Perfect for both wet and dry machining operations
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Top-class security
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Energy efficiency and reduced running costs
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Breton reliability and assistance

Class-leading robustness and repeatability

Speed is meaningless without control

Designed to overcome the common limits of this product category: reduced robustness and poor repeatability over time.
Thanks to its optimised design, Breton Hawx is not only more rigid and stable but also guarantees an excellent size-towork area ratio.
It is easily integrated into all production environments, it’s delivered already assembled and tested; it does not require special foundations and has minimal commissioning times.

The Hawx E1 is built using a selfsupporting monolithic structure, which is one of the main characteristics of the machine, making it robust and enabling easy handling for delivery and installation.

The Hawx E2 foresees a pre-assebled starting module made from a U-shape monoblock structure which is expandable longitudinally using one or more pre arranged and calibrated extra U-shape supporting frames.

Both versions of the machine are built with a box-in-box architecture that guarantees a significant increase in rigidity of the bridge-ram assembly.

The high strength, characteristic also of the new Hornet head, enables a remarkable increase in material removal performance and accuracy, all with the greatest dynamics.
The innovative offset geometry of the head allows for an outstanding increase of the machinable volumes while minimizing the external footprint of the machine and enabling a considerable accessibility to the workpice on the undercuts.

Materials

Light alloys / Aluminium

Polymers

Composites

Resin

Processes

Industries

Technologies

Applications

Numerical control

Versions, heads and models available

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Hawx E1

The Hawx E1 is built using a selfsupporting monolithic structure, which is one of the main characteristics of the machine, making it robust and enabling easy handling for delivery and installation.

Models Hawx E1

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Hawx E1 K 40

Technological highlights

Breton Hawx is delivered preassembled with a prewired electrical cabinet. Once the customer has positioned the machine, only the front housings remain to be fitted. The entire assembly and start-up procedure takes just 5 days: in the first 3 days the machine is unloaded, anchored, and completed, start-up takes place on day 4 while day 5 is reserved for training. Hawx can be easily relocated on the customer's site to accommodate possible changes to the production layout.

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Designed for delivery fully assembled
The Hawx E1 is built using a selfsupporting monolithic structure, which is one of the main characteristics of the machine, making it robust and enabling easy handling for delivery and installation.
The Hawx E2 foresees a pre-assebled starting module made from a U-shape monoblock structure which is expandable longitudinally using one or more pre-arranged and calibrated extra U-shape supporting frames.

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Self-supporting monobloc modular bases
Available in more than 4 different workload automation configurations: mechanical clamping, modular vacuum grid, double-acting suction cups or with automatic pallet changer.

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Different solutions available
Protected from dust and dirt and easily accessible by the operator. The automatic 8-cell tool store, placed outside the work area, makes tool loading/unloading completely safe for the operator, with no need to suspend the work cycle. Thanks to the solution's modularity, capacity can be easily increased up to a maximum of 64 cells.

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External tool store
The box-in-box architecture of the bridge-carriage-RAM unit guarantees an increase in stiffness to achieve greater accuracy and repeatability through time, also in heavy duty machining operations.

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Box in Box Architecture
With double spindle axis offset, increasing degrees of accessibility to the workpiece and ensuring the highest level of rigidity and precision.

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Unique orthogonal head design
Hawx is equipped with the latest generation of Siemens numerical control: Sinumerik One.

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Latest generation Siemens Sinumerik One numerical control