Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment no longer required by a retained client... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is hosting its MMX #136 online auction of machine tools and sheet metal machinery located in the UK and Spain... [Read More]
New England is facilitating an online auction of machinery and equipment from BMR Presswork, Derbyshire, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is staging an online auction of machines from various UK sites... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]

Workers required

Workers required

Up to 100 new jobs could created at a Coventry engineering firm after it secured a £1.4m funding package.
Penso said the investment from HSBC would allow it to purchase its Woodhams Road site and install new equipment... [Read More]

NAS grants

NAS grants

Companies looking to offer apprenticeships in England have been given a boost as the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) announces moves to help even more employers recruit an apprentice.
The Government has confirmed an extension of the apprenticeship... [Read More]

More loans

More loans

Just-released figures for November 2012 from the Finance & Leasing Association show a large increase in finance for plant and machinery.
Finance leasing and hire purchase remain... [Read More]

Agency deal

Agency deal

600 UK has announced new arrangements with Bendertechniek BV to distribute its range of Colchester lathes in the Netherlands and Belgium (and Harrison lathes... [Read More]

Sescoi expand

Sescoi expand

Booming business in India, which was up 30% in 2011 and continued to increase in 2012, has made it essential for CADCAM software specialist Sescoi to move offices in Pune, west India, to provide room for more... [Read More]

New five-axis machine

New five-axis machine

GF AgieCharmilles has launched a five-axis (3+2 axis) machine tool range into the market.
Although the new Swissbuilt HEM 500U is a universal machining centre, it is being aimed at manufacturers, specifically subcontractors, machining 1-offs and small batch precision parts who need a versatile... [Read More]

£1m heat treatment plant

£1m heat treatment plant

Construction work is now underway on Keighley Laboratories' new heat treatment processes building, at its West Yorkshire headquarters.
Representing a total capital investment in excess of £1m, the purpose-built unit will house furnaces, controls and ancillary... [Read More]

Food for thought inspires Ishida

Food for thought inspires Ishida

At the UK subsidiary of the Japanese Ishida group (a major food packaging machinery manufacturer) in Poole, four US-built Hurco VMCs are being used to produce components for a new range of semi-automatic tray sealers.
Despite the recession... [Read More]

Delivery times slashed

Delivery times slashed

At Tipton, UK-based materials supplier, Carrs Toolsteel Technologies, a single round or flat section billet is now supplied to a customer within 24 hours of order placement, while lead-time for multiple tool steel billets is 1-2 days.
Previously, 2-3 days was the typical... [Read More]

MHI make gear hobbers in India

MHI make gear hobbers in India

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has commenced gear cutting machine production in Bengaluru (previously Bangalore), India.
The strategy complements its... [Read More]

Volvo to invest heavily in India

Volvo to invest heavily in India

Sweden's Volvo AB, the world's number two truck-maker, says it will invest 2000 crore in India over an unspecified period as it seeks to establish a stronger footprint in Asia's third-largest economy.
This is in addition to the 1800 crore investment the... [Read More]