French Firm Laroche Used Delcam for 20 Years
 BIRMINGHAM,
UK, Oct 25, 2007 - Delcam’s longest-standing customer in France, prototype
and short-run manufacturing specialist Laroche, has now totaled 20 years as
a user of its PowerMILL CAM system. To mark the occasion, Delcam Managing
Director, Hugh Humphreys, presented a plaque to Laroche General Manager,
Hervé Pouyet, during a recent visit to Delcam’s Birmingham headquarters from
his company’s base to the north of Paris.
Laroche was initially founded more than 100 years ago to
machine small mechanical parts and tooling. Now, the company specializes in
high-added value prototypes and small production runs of parts for the
automotive, aerospace, defence and medical markets. It machines all types of
materials, including titanium, Inconel and stainless steel, and is now
moving into composites. Well known customers include Peugeot, Citroen and
Renault in the automotive industry, and Snecma/Safran, Dassault and Euro
copter in the aerospace sector. Laroche has also supplied components for the
Ariane space program.
Since 1977 when it introduced its first numerically controlled machine,
Laroche has used its financial stability to invest in an increasing pool of
modern equipment. The company now has twenty-four CNC machines. Of these,
ten are high-speed machines, while eleven have five-axis capabilities. The
most recent additions are dedicated machines for drilling and trimming of
composites and other plastics. These have been used for large-scale
projects, including the machining of five-meter-long helicopter blades made
from a combination of composite materials and polyurethane resin.
Laroche was one of the first French companies to introduce high-speed
machining more than seventeen years ago. The range of high-speed strategies
in PowerMILL is one of the reasons why Mr. Pouyet has always been reluctant
to move from his Delcam software.
Laroche was also a pioneer of five-axis machining, at a time when Delcam
offered limited support for the technology. “My one frustration with
PowerMILL came after we installed our first five-axis machine some six years
ago,” admitted Mr. Pouyet. “However, since then, the five-axis capabilities
have got better and better, so I’m now very glad that I stayed with Delcam.”
“To keep our customers happy, we need to machine high-quality products,
in a variety of materials, as quickly and accurately as possible,” explained
Mr. Peuyet. “There is never enough time to optimize anything so everything
must be right first time. PowerMILL gives us the strategies, the flexibility
and the reliability that we need.”
From its machining background, Laroche has broadened its capabilities to
include design and product development services. Close relationships have
been developed with the design departments in its key customers,
particularly those in the automotive industry.
One joint development involved port machining of cylinder heads for
Citroen rally cars. “The flexibility of our five-axis machines and the newer
strategies in PowerMILL allowed us to create these complex shapes to
extremely demanding levels of accuracy,” claimed Mr. Peuyet. “We are now
looking for other areas where we can apply direct machining from solid to
replace castings.”
“France has high costs so we must stay in high-value markets if we are to
continue to grow. PowerMILL is essential to our success, both because of the
increased productivity and also because of the high accuracy it gives.”
For more information visit at
www.delcam.com.
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