[Award] TIMTOS 2025’s Big Winner: BMC-135FTS High-load Mill-turn Boring Machine Takes the Top R&D Innovation Award

From left: FEMCO group Deputy Manager Su Li-wen, new product development manager Su Po-cheng, group President Liu Yu-chen, technical R&D manager Lin Yen-ting and President’s Office manager Lin Che-wei. Photo: Wu Ching-chang

The BMC-135FTS high-load mill-turn boring machine developed by FATEK, a FEMCO group company, not only shone at TIMTOS 2025 (Nangang Hall 1, 1F, booth I0306) and won orders from many international buyers, but also took the top Supreme Excellence Award in the CNC machine tools and machining units category (all three classes) at the 17th Machine Tool R&D Innovation competition, plus a Merit Award for Energy Saving & Smart Product Innovation, making it the biggest winner of the show.

With more than 76 years of history and a leading position in horizontal boring mills, the FEMCO group follows the motto “experts in raising quality and productivity”. The BMC-135FTS offers high load capacity, precision, torque and rigidity and is easy to maintain. Built on a modular design for the market’s heavy-cutting needs, it has a high-load worktable and is easy to assemble and service. Drawing on well-known foreign designs, the facing head and spindle can be offset vertically so an extension sleeve can be fitted for heavy cutting, preventing chatter and ensuring accuracy.

President Liu Yu-chen says the BMC-135FTS has a simpler design based on modular concepts. Once each technology is validated it can be applied quickly to other machines, giving sales more flexibility, adding product value and opening the high-end market.

Its key innovations are the high-load worktable and a facing head with turning capability. Large parts used to require complex multi-step processes prone to error and could not be finished on one machine. With a turning facing head, boring, milling and turning can be done on a single machine, reducing errors between operations. To carry heavy parts, FEMCO developed its own hydrostatic bearing technology instead of costly, long-lead-time rotary table bearings, and commissioned an academic partner to perform Ansys static stiffness analysis, achieving excellent accuracy and quality.

Liu notes that the machine’s combined milling and turning serves a wide range of machining needs, mainly components for the petrochemical industry, large pumps, and pipes and valves for water and power grids. It handles most machining processes; the machine body and facing head are made entirely in-house and have been sold in many countries. FEMCO is now improving spindle rigidity, machining range and ease of use, and pairs the machine with a smart app-based digital service so it can respond flexibly to market needs and stand out from competitors.

Source: Economic Daily News

2025-03-05 · Economic Daily News / Wu Ching-chang

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