Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of equipment no longer required by Holme Valley Fabrication & Engineering... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is hosting an online auction of a complete pipe manufacturing facility (Lindo Industripark, Odense, Denmark)... [Read More]
1st Machinery Auctions is facilitating an online auction of assets used previously by a leading aerospace company based in the Midlands, UK... [Read More]
BVA Auctions is holding an online auction of a Ficep sawing and drilling line located in Alphen, Netherlands... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is conducting a tender sale by order of BAE Systems, Salmesbury, UK... [Read More]

Changes at Mapal

Changes at Mapal

John Claypole will be stepping down from his role of managing director at tooling specialist Mapal UK at the end of the year, remaining as a director.
Wayne Whitehouse will be taking on the role of general manager at the company commencing... [Read More]

Fanuc merge operations

Fanuc merge operations

All former Fanuc operations active on a Europe-wide scale are being merged into the new Fanuc Luxembourg Corporation (FLC), headquartered in Echternach, Luxembourg, with... [Read More]

Record results at Trumpf

Record results at Trumpf

German sheet metalworking machinery specialist, Trumpf, has posted the largest revenue rise in its entire history.
During the past fiscal year (ending 30 June) the company saw... [Read More]

Three months of growth

Three months of growth

US industrial production grew in September as rising factory output made up for falling output from other economy sectors.
The Federal Reserve says industrial production grew 0.2% in the month, having been unchanged in August, while factory output grew for a third consecutive... [Read More]

25 years for Romer

25 years for Romer

Hexagon Metrology's manufacturing facility for Romer branded portable measuring arms in Montoire, France, is celebrating its 25th birthday.
Since 1986, thousands of portable measuring arms have left Montoire serving a range of industries.
The company says that many of the first ever manufactured Romer measuring arms are still... [Read More]

2nd Mazak plant

2nd Mazak plant

Japanese machine tool giant, Yamazaki Mazak, is to construct a second major manufacturing facility in China, the company's 10th global production plant.
It will be located in Dalian, in the south of Liaoning province in northeast China, will be called the Yamazaki Mazak Machine Tool Liaoning Co Ltd and will enter production in 2013.
The £41m facility follows the Ningxia Little Giant Machine Tool... [Read More]

Automotive focus

Automotive focus

Metalex 2011, the ASEAN region's largest machine tool and metalworking technology exhibition, is working with the world's leading brands to bring new machinery and technologies from 50 countries to the show, which takes place on 16-19 November at BITEC, Bangkok, Thailand. This year, Metalex is showing automotive production machinery for medium to high level... [Read More]

Zeeko collect Queen\'s Award

Zeeko collect Queen's Award

On 3 October, the Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire, Lady Gretton, presented Coalville-based Zeeko with its Queen's Award for Innovation 2011.
Zeeko specialises in designing and building machines for polishing high precision, freeform surfaces such as telescope lens segments.
The company won the award for its 'Optic Fabrication Centre', a corrective polisher with... [Read More]

Beakbane invest in future

Beakbane invest in future

Kidderminster-based bellows and machine tool protection specialist Beakbane is extending its apprenticeship programme to ensure it has a skilled workforce for the future.
Beakbane already has three apprentices on its payroll, has just recruited two more and is now committing to... [Read More]

Orders roll in from Dugard open house

Orders roll in from Dugard open house

Machine tool supplier, C Dugard, says that its recently introduced Samsung range is proving to be the company's fastest selling of all time â€" with 13 sold to customers throughout the UK and Europe (including Russia) at the recent open house alone.
The 52mm capacity machines, which caused such a stir at EMO are fast building an impressive... [Read More]