In early April 2025, Citizen Machinery held a special event at its Bushey headquarters to launch the third generation of its Cincom L20-LFV series of sliding-head lathes, which in the latest version are considerably more productive and eco-friendly. Three of the four variants available to UK and Irish manufacturers were on show under power producing typical customer-type components, rather than just demo parts, which was well received by attendees. Additionally. there was also a second-generation L20 model on show for comparison.

As it was not a conventional open house, the gathering was smaller than normal, but nevertheless 60 visitors from 30 customer companies attended. Four orders were taken to the value of around £700,000, contributing to a very successful April for the machine tool supplier. Numerous other negotiations are ongoing as a direct result of the initiative, not least owing to the various offers on new and existing models at the event.

Unlike at Citizen Machinery’s customary three-day annual open houses, there were none of the usual two dozen supplier companies at the launch, except for Cobots Online, which was demonstrating collaborative robot automation on a Miyano BNA-42SY5 fixed-head lathe. This year’s full open house will run from 7th to 9th October at Citizen’s turning centre of excellence in Brierley Hill. It will feature the launch of a new fixed-head lathe, the Miyano BNX-51MSY2LFV, a prototype of which was previewed at Bushey in April, along with other new models yet to be announced.

About Citizen Machinery

Citizen Machinery UK Ltd, based in Bushey and Brierley Hill, is a world leading CNC machine tool manufacture supplying the latest CNC mill-turn technology to UK industry. Following a merger in January 2011 the company incorporates staff and resources from the UK machine tool operations of both Citizen (Citizen Machinery UK Ltd, formerly NC Engineering Ltd) and Miyano (Miyano Machinery UK Ltd, formerly Macro Machine Tools Ltd.)

We have been successfully serving UK manufacturing industry since 1974 – now as part of the Citizen group, famous also for its precision watches and electronics. Our products encompass Citizen’s extensive range of high performance Cincom Sliding Head CNC lathes and Miyano FIxed Head CNC lathes.

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