Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

1st Machinery is staging an online auction of machines from various UK sites... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of CNC machining centres... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is facilitating an auction of fabricating, sheet metal and other equipment... [Read More]
Maynards is hosting a sale by tender of machinery used previously by Opel, Ford and Borg Warner... [Read More]

Taiwan set for growth

Taiwan set for growth

Analysts at market intelligence specialists, TechNavio, forecast the machine tool market in Taiwan to grow at a CAGR of 15.04% over the period through to 2016.
One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the need for products with increased dimensional accuracy... [Read More]

Walter see 6% growth

Walter see 6% growth

Order intake for Walter tool grinding and tool inspection machines, as well as machine servicing, is bucking the general economic trend as the company reports a rise in turnover of almost 6% during 2012 compared with the previous year... [Read More]

Morris acquire Hegman

Morris acquire Hegman

Morris Group of Windsor, Connecticut has purchased Hegman Machine Tool of Maple Grove, Minnesota, a distributor of manufacturing technology lines such as Okuma, Hardinge and Hydromat among... [Read More]

Korea expects export growth

Korea expects export growth

South Korea's machine tool exports are expected to reach a record high this year, fuelled by improved product quality and steady overseas demand, the Government said last week.
Exports of machine tools are likely to reach... [Read More]

Investment in CMM training

Investment in CMM training

Hexagon Metrology has opened a new training centre at it UK headquarters in Telford.
Now, up to 12 new and existing software users can be trained per day in a high technology environment.
Furnished with the latest equipment, the new facility... [Read More]

Haco launch latest Q5

Haco launch latest Q5

Haco has introduced the latest version of its Q5 punching, nibbling, louvering, rolling and bending turret press.
Available in 22 or 30 ton versions, the machine comes with an automatic toolchanger to punch through steel up to 6.5mm thick at rates of up to 1200 hits per minute.
The external tool turret changes the tools into the punching head automatically, thus avoiding... [Read More]

Used machines at Metaltech 2013

Used machines at Metaltech 2013

At the 19th edition of Metaltech on 21-24 May 2013 (taking place at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), visitors will get a chance to witness the show’s first ever 'Used Machinery... [Read More]

Kitagawa launch new vice

Kitagawa launch new vice

Secure, accurate clamping with 40kN of torque is offered by the new Japanese-manufactured VAX125 vice from Kitagawa.
Equally suitable for use on five- or three-axis machining centres, the vice is available in the UK through... [Read More]

Faro support Caterham F1

Faro support Caterham F1

Formula One's Caterham F1 Team, based in Oxfordshire, UK is using a US-manufactured Faro ScanEdge portable CMM to optimise in-house quality control.
One of its principal uses will be to monitor the quality of machined patterns that are used as templates for making moulds from which carbon fibre components for the team's cars are produced.
The decision was taken recently to manufacture patterns... [Read More]

55 machine order for Agie Charmilles

55 machine order for Agie Charmilles

GF AgieCharmilles, a division of Swiss group Georg Fischer, has received a major order for 55 machines from a well-known Chinese manufacturer of components for electronic devices.
The new order includes both EDM as well as... [Read More]