Article: World's largest gun driller degins operation.(Supplier News)

WORLD'S LARGEST GUN DRILLER BEGINS OPERATION. Voith Paper, Heidenheim, Germany said that one and a half years after the decision had been made to buy the world's largest gun drilling machine (TIBO II) for Voith St. Polten, the machine began successful operation in June 2004. TIBO II, the largest single investment within the entire Voith group, will be used for machining suction roll shells. Hundreds of thousands of small holes are precisely drilled into the roll shell, helping to remove water from the web during the papermaking process and to apply a vacuum for holding the web to the roll. This investment was made to meet the demands of a market requiring increasingly ...

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