Latest Machinery Trade News: 12/30/12

Saturday, January 05, 2013

Ramco is conducting a tender sale of machinery at its Skegness and Burgh Road, UK sites... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is hosting its MMX #136 online auction of machine tools and sheet metal machinery... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]
Hilco and Perfection are staging an online auction of machines no longer required by David Brown Gear Systems Ltd, Huddersfield, UK... [Read More]
Maynards is facilitating a sale by tender on behalf of Opel, Germany, of a large MÃ¼ller Weingarten VK3000-40/26-45 progressive press with link drive... [Read More]

Record numbers visit Mazak

Yamazaki Mazak enjoyed another successful open house with a record number of attendees visiting its European... [Read More]

80 attend Hurco open house

A total of 80 visitors representing 58 companies from the UK and Ireland were welcomed... [Read More]

Rofin set benchmark

Industrial laser systems manufacturer Rofin-Baasel UK reports bookings and turnover for the UK/Ireland operation up 12% on the previous year, for the year to end-September 2012. Adding to a remarkable three-year run since 2009... [Read More]

Grinding sector acquisition

US-headquartered Hardinge Inc has acquired fellow American business, Usach Technologies Inc, a privately owned machine tool company specialising in internal and external grinding machines and systems.
The Usach portfolio... [Read More]

Turbine centre planned

Japanese machine tool specialist, Mitsui Seiki, has announced plans to open a new facility dedicated to advancing turbine manufacturing technology at its Franklin Lakes, New Jersey facility.
According... [Read More]

Live auction at USETEC

A live auction of used machinery is planned for the opening day of the USETEC 2013 trade fair.
Organised by USETEC's technical sponsor, the FDM (Germany's Trade Association for Machine Tools and Tooling), all USETEC exhibitors... [Read More]

Â£250k investment at Lasershape

Nottingham-based subcontract sheet and plate processing specialist, Lasershape, has installed a new Xpert 150 seven-axis CNC press brake with laser measuring capability from Swissheadquartered Bystronic.
The 150 tonne capacity press brake features a 3m... [Read More]

Omco move to digital

Omco Group, the largest manufacturer of cast iron moulds for bottles and jars in Europe, is using laser scanning to digitise customers' bottle designs, shortening the lead-time from receipt of order to delivery of the finished moulds.
Manufactured in Japan by Nikon Metrology, the LC50Cx digital line... [Read More]

MP visits Wickman

MP for Coventry, Jim Cunningham, made a recent visit to Binley to meet Chris Barrett, managing director of Wickman Coventry Ltd.
The company says that Mr Cunningham was interested to learn how Wickman had overcome its struggles in the 1980s without... [Read More]

ATP jet ahead with XYZ

Leicester-based Air Time Products has taken delivery of an XYZ 710 vertical machining centre with 4th axis capability.
The company specialises in the manufacture of aftermarket components that help upgrade various... [Read More]

Expectations high for GIF 2013

The sixth edition of the popular Gulf Industry Fair (GIF) will take place on 15-17 January in Bahrain.
GIF is now the region's established annual B2B exhibition for the... [Read More]

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Auction Spotlight

Hilco is staging a private treaty sale of equipment used previously by Kaydon.... [Read More]
Ramco is conducting a tender sale of machinery at its Skegness and Burgh Road, UK sites... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]
Hilco and Perfection are co-hosting a series of auctions and sales of large capacity gear manufacturing machinery... [Read More]
Maynards is facilitating a sale by tender on behalf of Opel, Germany, of a large MÃ¼ller Weingarten VK3000-40/26-45 progressive press with link drive... [Read More]

PM hails Airbus order

Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed a major deal safeguarding 9000 jobs announced at the Flintshire plant of plane-maker Airbus.
On a visit to Broughton, Mr Cameron said the deal was "excellent news... [Read More]

Cutting fluids blend into one

Stoke-based Fuchs Lubricants UK has bought the business and assets of CNC Fluids, a supplier of metalworking fluids headquartered in Bristol.
Fuchs is the UK subsidiary of German company Fuchs Petrolub AG, the world's largest independent lubricant company.
Richard Halhead, managing... [Read More]

Winbro acquire Hardinge FGC

Coalville, UK-based Winbro Group Technologies has acquired Bridgeport's FGC product from US-based Hardinge Inc.
The move will allow Winbro to offer high precision, multiaxis grinding... [Read More]

Surprise output leap

Just-released figures from the Central Statistics Office show that India's industrial output rose more than expected in October.
Factory output rose 8.2% from a year earlier: most... [Read More]

EFG to represent Stama

Stama Maschinenfabrik has appointed the Engineering Technology Group as its exclusive representative for the UK and Ireland.
The German machine tool manufacturer specialises in four and five-axis process solutions and innovative design concepts based on its... [Read More]

JLR plant in Saudi?

The Saudi Commerce and Industry Ministry says it will ink a Letter of Intent (LOI) with India's Tata Group to set up a plant in the country to manufacture Land Rovers, reports Arabian Business.
The ministry says that the planned Â£1.2bn investment would comprise... [Read More]

Renishaw at the palace

Renishaw, the global metrology specialist, was honoured earlier this year with its 15th Queen's Award for Enterprise, bestowed for the company's SP80 analogue scanning probe in the Innovation category.
Last month, employees Pete Hajdukiewicz and Andy... [Read More]

Â£0.5m upgrade at Cobra

A total of Â£500,000 has been spent by Cobra Seats on upgrading the frame shop and replacing manual machines at its Telford, UK factory.
In their place are to be found four new CNC machine tools that include a US-built... [Read More]

Sixth division for SSC Laser

One of the UK's largest laser cutting companies, SSC Laser, has continued its national expansion by opening a new division in Bristol.
Situated in Aztec West, the Bristol site takes the number of UK divisions... [Read More]

NPL reach out to arm users

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is now offering the UK's first ISO 17025 (UKAS) accredited articulated arm (portable CMM) verification service to comply with the widely... [Read More]

UAE gets set for SteelFab 2013

Taking place at the Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on 14-17 January, the ninth edition of SteelFab is set to be the best yet.
According to the organisers, SteelFab is the mostattended and highly anticipated metalworking, metal-manufacturing and steel fabrication trade fair in the region.
Every January, global attention shifts to Expo Centre in Sharjah, with the convergence... [Read More]