Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Fairfield Industries is conducting an online auction of equipment used previously by Matrix Precision... [Read More]
1st Machinery Auctions is staging an online auction of equipment used previously by Paul Fabrications, Castle Donington, UK... [Read More]
Asset Bidder is hosting a collective online auction of plant equipment... [Read More]
Sweeney Kincaid is holding an online auction of equipment used previously by Simclair International, Fife, UK... [Read More]
Asset Sales is facilitating an auction of equipment used formerly by a manufacturer of tanks, vessels and wind towers in Louisiana, USA... [Read More]

Tooling contract

Tooling contract

Germany headquartered precision machining expert Mapal has been awarded its largest contract to date for a wind power project.
The contract covers tooling required for machining three different components that are used in wind turbine gearboxes, all of the parts being manufactured... [Read More]

Aero firm acquisition

Aero firm acquisition

Aeronautical engineer and entrepreneur Andrew Redfern has acquired Coventry engineering firm Lightning Aerospace in an undisclosed deal.
Lightning Aerospace, which was established in... [Read More]

Recognition for Fanuc

Recognition for Fanuc

CNC system, robot and machine tool manufacturer, Fanuc, has been named one of the top 100 companies in Forbes magazine's "World's Most Innovative Companies" list. The... [Read More]

Jobs at £40m Ansty Park

Jobs at £40m Ansty Park

A new £40m manufacturing research centre near Coventry says it plans to recruit up to 250 people by 2014.
The Manufacturing Technology... [Read More]

Robotics demand to surpass 30bn

Global demand for robotics will reach $21.8bn in 2011 according to a new Electronics CA Publications' report entitled 'Robotics: Technologies and Global Markets'.
That value is projected to reach $30.1bn in 2016, after increasing... [Read More]

Boeing considering Poland

Boeing thought about locating a production facility in Poland three years ago.
Now the American aero giant is back looking for a place to open a factory manufacturing aircraft parts.
The chairperson of the PSSE Special... [Read More]

Cannon order ProtoTrak LPM

Leeds-based subcontract machine shop, Cannon Engineering, an established user of XYZ machine tool technology, has placed an order for one of the first XYZ ProtoTrak LPM machining systems to be installed in the UK, and the first ProtoTrak-equipped machine to... [Read More]

1000th DEA Global

The DEA Global 7.10.7 co-ordinate measuring machine with serial number 1000 has been delivered from Turin, Italy to Hirschvogel Umformtechnik GmbH in Denklingen, Germany.
The company will use the CMM to measure... [Read More]

EMO info on the move

Visitors to this year's EMO machine tool exhibition, in Hanover, Germany (19-24 September) will, for the first time, be able to access the full exhibitor, product and program directory in a format suitable for mobile phones and similar devices.
Highlights include... [Read More]

Metalex gearing up for action at Ho Chi Minh City

Taking place at the Saigon Exhibition Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on 6-8 October, Metalex Vietnam 2011 promises to be one of the region's most comprehensive machine tool and metalworking technology exhibitions.
Investment opportunities are abound in the up-and-coming Vietnamese manufacturing sectors, where the Government has recently... [Read More]