Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Asset Sales is facilitating an auction of equipment used formerly by a manufacturer of tanks, vessels and wind towers in Louisiana, USA... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is hosting an online auction of items used previously by Firmin Cars and others... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is conducting an online auction of equipment used previously by BAE Systems, Waterlooville, UK... [Read More]
Great American Group is holding a webcast auction of equipment used previously by CAMtech Precision Manufacturing Inc, Dallas, USA... [Read More]
Troostwijk Auctions is staging an online auction of sheet metal machinery used previously by Press & Plåt (due to liquidation), Tongeren, Belgium... [Read More]

Aiming high

Aiming high

Taiwan's Fair Friend Group, which manufactures the Feeler brand of machines aims to become the world's largest manufacturer of machine tools by 2018, reports www.cens.com.
The company says it will achieve the world number one spot by investing more than £106m to build plants worldwide and set up a research institute in Taichung City, Taiwan, while in addition... [Read More]

150 years of Mahr

150 years of Mahr

Employees at metrology specialist, Mahr, are celebrating the company's 150th anniversary.
Founded by Carl Mahr as a small family enterprise... [Read More]

Sad news

Sad news

Yamazaki Mazak has announced the death of Teruyuki Yamazaki, chairman and CEO of Yamazaki Mazak Corporation.
Mr Yamazaki died on 15 September aged 82.
He took over the reins at the company in 1962, following the death of his father, Sadakichi Yamazaki, the original founder of Yamazaki Machinery... [Read More]

China losing \'low cost\' reputation

China losing 'low cost' reputation

China is losing its edge as the world's cheapest place to manufacture goods, a new report suggests.
Indonesia and Bangladesh are benefiting most as rising costs in China force firms to switch production, it says.
The report by consultants KPMG says that minimum wage levels in China are now... [Read More]

Catching hold of quality

Catching hold of quality

Hertford-based subcontract machinist, Qualiturn, has added a second Hydrafeed Rota Rack part accumulator to its machine shop.
The reason for the use of RotaRack is to improve the quality of components manufactured on turning centres â€" it solves the marking problem created when parts collide upon dropping from the machine into... [Read More]

Great Wall head west

Great Wall head west

Chinese car maker Great Wall is to inaugurate production of cars at its plant in the Bulgarian city of Lovech by the end of this year, investor.bg reports.
The annual production... [Read More]

New era for CBM

New era for CBM

Britain's biggest trade association for metalforming companies is set for a strategic shake-up following the arrival of its new chief executive.
Dennis Kent is best-known in the industry for transforming Leicester-based Carlton Laser Services from a loss-making business with just 15 workers, into a profitable venture employing five times that number.
Now, having sold Carlton to an MBO team... [Read More]

Beakbane fabricate parts for Heller

Beakbane fabricate parts for Heller

Beakbane has invested around £80,000 in new plant and facilities and taken on new staff after winning a contract from Heller UK to manufacture hundreds of heavy fabrications for machining centre tool magazines.
Kidderminster-based Beakbane is producing one magazine fabrication a day for Heller UK â€" and is already planning for... [Read More]

Jota install Mini Mill 560

Jota install Mini Mill 560

Jota Group has installed a XYZ Mini Mill 560 vertical machining centre to help it meet demanding lead-times for motorsport contracts.
At the company's machine shop site near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, the Mini Mill 560 has enabled machinist Chris Thorpe to take on complex machining work that would previously have been outsourced.
"Having this CNC capability in-house means we can save time and... [Read More]

UMEX – Asias only event for used machinery

UMEX â€" Asias only event for used machinery

The fifth edition of IndiaMART UMEX '11, India's premier exhibition for used machine tools and associated products, is set to take place on 14-16 October at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai.
Billed as this year's "most important meeting place for buyers and sellers of used machinery", IndiaMART UMEX '11 promises to... [Read More]