Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of machinery used previously at a Newark, UK-based engineering company... [Read More]
Apex Auctions is hosting an online auction of large capacity HMCs used previously by Hyde Aero Products, Lancashire, UK... [Read More]
Fairfield Industries is holding an online auction of machines used formerly by F Wilkinson & Sons, Stockton-on-Tees, UK... [Read More]
Deeley Matthews is facilitating an online auction of equipment used previously by Excalibur Engineering Ltd, Telford, UK... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is conducting a private treaty sale of equipment used previously by Neumayer Tekfor, Turin, Italy... [Read More]

Sandvik up stake in Seco?

Sandvik up stake in Seco?

Sandvik AB, headquartered in Sandviken, Sweden, a group that already embraces cutting tool brands such as Sandvik Coromant, Walter, Dormer and Safety, is seeking to acquire a majority shareholding in Seco Tools of Fagersta, Sweden.
Currently, Sandvik owns shares corresponding... [Read More]

Nikkiso to make more in Vietnam

Nikkiso to make more in Vietnam

Japan's Nikkiso Co will expand production of aircraft components in Vietnam as early as 2013 to capitalise on the country's low manufacturing costs.
The Japanese... [Read More]

Investment at MTD

Investment at MTD

Midland Tool and Design has created three jobs and invested in two new presses for a major motor core pack project.
The Tiptonbased company is working with a local heat treatment company to deliver 1500 motor stacks per month to a... [Read More]

Free coolant?

Free coolant?

Free of charge, Jemtech (UK) will visit manufacturers and document the potential productivity savings made possible by employing the most appropriate coolant.
In many cases these savings will be sufficient... [Read More]

Pollard automate honing

Pollard automate honing

Finding that one skilled operator could not hone the increasing number of fine tolerance parts being produced at its Tewkesbury facility, subcontractor Pollard Engineering has taken the decision to automate its honing operations using three UK-built E1000S machines from... [Read More]

Last chance to visit XYZ open house

Last chance to visit XYZ open house

With three of its four open house events now complete, including the latest at its Burlescombe headquarters in Devon, XYZ Machine Tools is already reporting impressive visitor numbers, enquiry levels... [Read More]

Extra capacity at MCS

Extra capacity at MCS

Redditch, UK-based Machined Component Systems (MCS) has installed two Swiss-built Tornos CNC turning centres â€" a Delta 20/5 and a Sigma 32 â€" which will help it service new contracts such as a six year deal within the Jaguar/Land Rover supply chain to provide parts for knuckle and suspension assemblies, and a two year contract with a multinational company... [Read More]

Strong turning sales

Strong turning sales

Turning Technologies, the sole UK agent for Japan's Nakamura-Tome, has reported strong trading in October with sales of seven multi-task turning centres. The company, which is part of the Engineering... [Read More]

3D laser welder at Border

3D laser welder at Border

Kelso, UK-based Border Precision has installed a Trumpf TruLaser Robot 5020 automated eight-axis laser welding system for the processing of complex seam geometries.
Capable of joining various material types the German-engineered... [Read More]

New jobs promised for UK manufacturing

New jobs promised for UK manufacturing

About 1000 jobs will be created at sports car manufacturer Lotus after it secured £10.4m of funding from the government.
The firm based in Hethel, Norfolk, had its original bid of £27.5m turned down before it reapplied for a smaller sum... [Read More]