Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online auction of machines used previously by Alternative Tools, Oxfordshire, UK... [Read More]
Industrierat is facilitating the sale of two sawmill lines (manufactured 2008) located in Germany... [Read More]

New Atul 3-wheeler factory

New Atul 3-wheeler factory

Rajkot, India-based Atul Auto has plans to set up a small plant in Sri Lanka (in partnership with a local manufacturer) to negate the impact of a recent import duty hike in the country.
According to a report in the Business Standard, overall... [Read More]

BFL prefer WorkNC CAM

BFL prefer WorkNC CAM

Auto component supplier, Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), the flagship company of the $2.4bn Kalyani Group, now uses WorkNC CADCAM... [Read More]

Kellenberger scale up

Kellenberger scale up

Kellenberger, part of the Hardinge Grinding Group, has opened a new facility in Switzerland designed to provide a climatecontrolled, energy-efficient environment for... [Read More]

Entry level CNC lathe

Entry level CNC lathe

Schaublin has introduced its competitively priced 102 TM CNC lathe, featuring driven tooling as standard and a C-axis.
Control is via Fanuc Turn Mate, while vacuum clamping is available... [Read More]

Isuzu eye $181m plant

Isuzu eye $181m plant

Japanese truck maker, Isuzu, plans to enter the Indian automotive market, and to that end is considering investing over US$181m in a new factory, reports the Economic Times.
Senior executives at the commercial vehicle... [Read More]

60 jobs at Ginetta

60 jobs at Ginetta

A niche motor manufacturer could create up to 60 new jobs at its West Yorkshire plant after signing a 50-car deal with a Chinese distributor.
Ginetta manufactures about 300 road and race cars annually at its factory... [Read More]

New record for metal removal

New record for metal removal

MAG's new Germanbuilt XTi 'super profiler' has taken aerospace machining to a record altitude, demonstrating a 1500cm³/min metal removal rate in titanium prior to shipment to Aerospace Dynamics International Inc (ADI), Valencia, California.
The machines... [Read More]

TAS tails up in Hyderabad

TAS tails up in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, India is poised to become a hub on the world's defence map when the Tata Advanced Systems (TAS) unit starts rolling out spare parts for the C-130J special operations aircraft.
The Hyderabad... [Read More]

Brothers aid bike parts machining

Brothers aid bike parts machining

Manchester-based Renthal, a producer of accessories for motorcycles and mountain bikes, is changing its rear chainwheel (sprocket) manufacturing process from CNC drilling followed by a sequence of manual operations, to virtually one-hit production on a pair of new Brother machining centres.
The Japanese... [Read More]

XYZ prove true to form

XYZ prove true to form

Within three months of hearing about the latest innovation from XYZ Machine Tools, Colin and David Musgrove, joint owners of True Precision Engineering, had not one but two ProtoTrak Lean Production Machines up and running in TPE's Blaydon-on-Tyne premises... [Read More]

Momentum accelerates for UMEX 2012

Momentum accelerates for UMEX 2012

Scheduled to take place on 2-4 November 2012 at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai, India, this year's edition of the established UMEX exhibition for used machine tools and allied products is set to advance further the show's position as the leading event of its type in... [Read More]