Monday, August 20, 2012

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is hosting an online auction of a Bystronic BySprint 3015 CNC laser cutting machine... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is facilitating an online auction of equipment used previously by a major mobile phone manufacturer located in Farnborough, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of equipment used formerly by Sapphire Engineering & Fabrication... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of machinery used previously by Bromford Industries and others... [Read More]
1st Machinery is holding an online auction of a Huron PAVE 8mm CNC wire forming machine used previously by Iplas of Halifax, UK... [Read More]

Lightning buy-out

Lightning buy-out

Lightning buy-out

Canley-based engineering company, Lightning Aerospace, has been bought out of administration by investment company, a2e Venture Catalysts â€" led by specialist manufacturing and engineer Amin... [Read More]

Decade of achievement

Decade of achievement

Decade of achievement

Metrology specialist, Renishaw, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of its Russian subsidiary, Renishaw OOO, which has offices in Moscow and Perm.
Celebrations included a boat ride... [Read More]

DKW look to five-axis

DKW look to five-axis

DKW look to five-axis

Following the purchase of its premises, Portsmouth, UK-based subcontractor DKW Engineering has been focussing on the future â€" upgrading facilities, rebranding the company and investing in new capital equipment.
The most recent arrival is a Taiwan-built Feeler... [Read More]

Power of four in Midlands

Power of four in Midlands

Power of four in Midlands

Three Japanese technology specialists, Matsuura, Fanuc Robotics and Mitutoyo, will team up with Swiss turning specialist, Tornos, to create an integrated event to be held at the Matsuura and Tornos technology centres... [Read More]

Star performer at Wealdpark

Star performer at Wealdpark

Star performer at Wealdpark

For a particular customer in the electrical industry, St Helens, UK-based turned parts subcontractor, Wealdpark, now machines over a million parts every year from brass bar using Star sliding head lathes.
With such large production quantities involved... [Read More]

Iemca step up to the bar

Iemca step up to the bar

Iemca step up to the bar

One of the top two hydraulic adaptor manufacturers in the UK, Gemac Hydraulics in Stanwell Moor (near Heathrow), has standardised on Iemca short bar magazines for... [Read More]

Taking flight with Kerf

Taking flight with Kerf

Taking flight with Kerf

Littleborough, Lancashire-based Pressed Flights, a manufacturer of screw conveyors, screw flights and flight segments, has installed a new Kerf RUR2500P plasma cutting machine for producing screw profiles.
The profiles range from 50 to 4000mm... [Read More]

Mollart deliver £500k drill/mill cell

Mollart deliver £500k drill/mill cell

Mollart deliver £500k drill/mill cell

Following two weeks of extensive acceptance trials and intensive deep hole drilling training, a team of Chinese engineers is to take delivery of a UK-built £500,000 Mollart Prismabore dual-spindle milling and gundrilling cell for producing... [Read More]

Educating the next generation

Educating the next generation

Educating the next generation

Students at the City Campus of Sheffield Hallam University now convert CADCAM projects into precision machined components using a 12,000 rpm XYZ HS1060... [Read More]

China rail parts order for Majorfax

China rail parts order for Majorfax

China rail parts order for Majorfax

Walsall, UK-based Majorfax has won a significant rail parts order from SKF France for over 3500 rail parts that are destined for trains in China.
The tendering process for sensor... [Read More]