Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Maynards is facilitating an online auction of equipment used formerly by a German tube and fittings manufacturer... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment no longer required by the toolroom of a major aerospace manufacturer... [Read More]
Fairfield Industries is holding an online auction of equipment used previously by Cinetic Landis... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is staging an online auction on the instructions of Honda UK Manufacturing, Swindon... [Read More]
BVA Auctions is hosting an online auction by order of the parties concerned of a DeraTech Technica Plus 25/4100 CNC press brake... [Read More]

PR2 opt for Mori

PR2 opt for Mori

Kirkcaldy, UK-based PR2 Engineering, which supplies to customers in the oil and gas, petrochemical, defence, nuclear, and space industries, has installed its fifth machine from Japan's Mori Seiki.
Says Paul Halliwell, director at PR2: "Our plan is to invest continuously over the next five years and the NLX2500MC [turning centre] was purchased to address a bottleneck in... [Read More]

Pace of growth picks up

Pace of growth picks up

The pace of growth in the US manufacturing sector in November reached its strongest rate since June, a new survey has indicated.
The Institute for Supply Management says the index of factory output rose to... [Read More]

Chester expand in Saudi

Chester expand in Saudi

Chester Machine Tools recently attended the Makinat 2011 exhibition in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the company co-exhibited with Pan Gulf Welding Solutions.
The two have now signed an exclusive agreement for Pan Gulf Welding Solutions to be the official agent for Chester Machine Tools in the Kingdom of... [Read More]

Energy market strategy shift

Energy market strategy shift

French nuclear firm Areva and Jeddahbased Saudi Binladin Group have signed a partnership agreement to work together on nuclear and solar technologies.
Saudi Arabia wants to cut the use of fossil fuels... [Read More]

Sawing three times faster

Sawing three times faster

A UK supplier of engineering steel bar and tube, Staniforth-HKB Steel of Rotherham, has taken delivery of a Kasto Performance Cutting (KPC) derivative of the German manufacturer's TEC A5 bandsaw... [Read More]

Industrial diversification

Industrial diversification

Bahrain's manufacturing industry continues to register rapid growth, as can be seen by the number of industrial parks and logistical zones opening across the country, according to a new report.
"Bahrain is treading on the right path of diversifying its economy by driving... [Read More]

QA place Airbus order

QA place Airbus order

Fast-expanding Gulf carrier Qatar Airways announced at last month's Dubai Airshow that it will buy 55 Airbus planes.
The deal includes 50 A320neo narrow body aircraft and five A380 double-decker jumbos, with options for more.
Airbus says the package is worth $6.4bn at list prices.
Qatar Airways is increasingly challenging... [Read More]

New president at CECIMO

New president at CECIMO

CECIMO, the European machine tool association, elected Martin Kapp as its new president at its recent autumn general assembly, which met in Zurich, Switzerland last month.
Mr Kapp, who will serve a two-year term, says his most important... [Read More]

Emal award 700m in contracts

Emal award 700m in contracts

Emal has awarded contracts worth more than $700m as work begins on making the expansion of its Al Taweelah smelter a reality.
Phase Two will almost double production capacity to 1.3 million tonnes.
It will involve building the... [Read More]

Steady growth in 2012

Steady growth in 2012

The Manufacturing Technologies Association's annual forecast seminar, prepared for the MTA by Oxford Economics, showed that modest and steady growth is predicted for 2012.
Globally, manufacturing output is expected to see a growth rate of around 4% in 2012.
In this context, growth is predicted of around... [Read More]

Onwards and upwards for Iran Khodro

Onwards and upwards for Iran Khodro

In what has been its most productive year ever, Iranian car producer, Iran Khodro Co (IKCO), is launching its fifth domestic manufacturing site.
Opening this month, capacity at the new site located in southern Iran (Fars province), is expected to be around 20,000 cars in 2012 â€" the first model being produced is the Peugeot Pars.
At a recent press... [Read More]