Gantry Mills

Most gantry mills are large in size, but Johnford also offers smaller machines that can handle the same capacity as large VMCs. If a large C-frame type vertical machining center is on your wishlist, stop and consider this! Johnford has gantry mills that are:

• Faster
• More accurate
• Take up 30% less floor space
• Offer superior ergonomics
• Contain 100% of chips and coolant

And most importantly to your bottom line, these features don’t cost more than comparably equipped VMCs!

Johnford has its own cast iron foundry that allows them to build extra heavy gantry mills — adding iron rather than taking it out to decrease the cost of their gantry machines.

Built on massive, FEA-designed Meehanite castings, all Johnford gantry mills offer rigid box ways in Y and Z, plus Schneeberger roller linear ways in X to accommodate unprecedented table loads and provide extreme accuracy under heavy loading. These gantry machines have no table overhang thanks to an X axis that is fully supported by the base casting, eliminating pitch and yaw issues that can occur with vertical machining centers.

Johnford gantry milling machines can be configured in many ways and can even be tailored to fit specific machining needs. Depending on your applications needs, these machines have a wide range of spindle choices, a full range of highly engineered configurations including W axis, full automatic 5-face machining with multiple heads and automatic attachment changer, and full 5-axis articulating heads in both high speed and heavy duty versions.

From the smallest machine, the DMC-900 with 36” x 36” x 30” travels, to our giant SDMC-20000 with 720” x 240” x 120” (42” Z + 78” W axis) travels, Absolute Machine Tools offers virtually any size and any configuration you need.