Latest Machinery Trade News: 3/24/13

Monday, March 25, 2013

Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of machinery used previously by a major manufacturer in the oil and gas industry... [Read More]
1st Machinery is hosting an online auction from various UK sites... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment used formerly by Apex Engineering, Aylesbury, UK... [Read More]
MNA is facilitating an on-site and online auction of machinery used formerly by Goodrich Landing Gear, Cleveland, USA... [Read More]
Ferbid is holding an auction of machinery used previously by Flextronics, Tczew, Poland... [Read More]

Semta and EEF join forces

Skills body Semta and manufacturers' organisation, EEF, have joined forces with leading employers to try to change the way engineering skills and training are delivered and funded.
The two organisations... [Read More]

New slider at Shepherd

Great Yarmouth-based Shepherd Engineering has taken delivery of a Citizen A32-VII CNC sliding head turn-mill centre, enabling the subcontract machinist to cut into existing sliding head cycle times by an average... [Read More]

500 hours in productivity

Removing set-up time from EDM machine tools can add up to 500 more productive hours per year, says REM Systems, the UK partner of Erowa.
Using the latest Erowa Preset 2D, electrodes and workpieces can be measured in the X, Y, Z and C axes quickly and safely.
Offset data can then be transferred... [Read More]

New man at Geo Kingsbury

Ian Warren has been appointed area sales manager for southeast England by Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools.
The company is the sales agent... [Read More]

ETG to represent Hardinge

The Engineering Technology Group and Hardinge have reached a sales, service and customer support agreement for Hardinge and Bridgeport machine tools and workholding equipment.
Under the agreement... [Read More]

Trio stage OMV event

Delcam, Mazak and Renishaw have completed a successful two-day event promoting on-machine verification (OMV) to Bangkok.
The event was hosted by machine tool supplier Mazak at its Bangkok showroom and supported by CADCAM vendor Delcam and metrology specialist... [Read More]

Â£7m orders for PTG?

As first-time exhibitors at IMTEX 2013 in Bangalore, India, precision machinery group PTG naturally expected a reasonable degree of interest in its technologies. What it wasn't prepared for, however, was well over Â£7m in potential orders.
"The level of interest shown in our Powerstir friction stir welding technologies, deep-hole boring machines, Versa Turn lathes and... [Read More]

Titanium milling made easier

The latest range of indexable insert milling cutters from WNT is aimed at high performance machining of titanium, superalloys and stainless steel components.
The A2520 series cutters combine a stable and robust insert location with eight cutting edges per insert for milling operations such as slotting, turn milling, face milling and reverse copy milling â€" all with throughtool coolant as standard.
Cutter diameters range from 32 to 80mm dependent on the style... [Read More]

Fastems acquire Pneumotec

The Finnish flexible manufacturing systems (FMS) maker, Fastems Oy Ab, which also builds robotic cells for automating machine... [Read More]

Bar feeds unveiled

According to UK agent, 1st Machine Tool Accessories, high performance, flexibility and reliability are key features of Iemca's new Elite... [Read More]

PDJ double-up

Specialists in vibratory, barrel and centrifugal finishing, PDJ Vibro, says it has recently doubled its subcontract division... [Read More]

Robosoft hit 10,000 mark

Robosoft, sister company of Kingsland Engineering Co Ltd and also a part of the Haco group, says it has now delivered more than 10,000 CNC and software systems worldwide in its 25-year history.
Using a team of 50 skilled engineers... [Read More]

Blast off with Seco Turbo

Seco Tools UK has expanded its Turbo 10 square shoulder milling cutter product line with the introduction of Turbo 10 inserts with geometries and radii, and a new range of helical cutters.
The Turbo 10 inserts are available with corner radii ranging from 0.4 to 3.1mm, while innovative geometries for... [Read More]

Growth in 2013

MFG.com's latest MFGWatch survey predicts a year of growth in 2013, with product development companies expecting to make new technology investments, expand supplier bases and continue to hire.
The survey targeted 8840... [Read More]

Best year ever

Haas Automation reports that 2012 was the best year in the company's 30-year history with revenues exceeding $967m â€" an increase of 11.5% over 2011 â€" and CNC machine tool production exceeding 13,300 units, an increase of 5%.
Sales of Haas CNC machine tools remained strong throughout 2012, with December yielding a near-record 1512 units... [Read More]

Successful trade mission

Lee Darton (pictured), the managing director of Flextraction Ltd, a supplier and manufacturer of local exhaust ventilation (LEV), has just arrived back from a UK export trade mission to Germany, taking in seven cities including Cologne, Stuttgart and Dresden... [Read More]

Creaform on target

Creaform, a specialist in portable 3D portable measurement technologies and 3D engineering services, has announced its financial results for 2012.
The company achieved $44.5m in annual sales, which makes for organic growth of 19%... [Read More]

New Trumpf laser facility

Trumpf Laser GmbH + Co KG has expanded its primary solid-state laser development facility by erecting a new 6200 sq m building in the town of Schramberg-Sulgen near Stuttgart.
With around 250 guests in attendance... [Read More]

Zoller set-up shop in the UK

Zoller UK Ltd is a new company representing Zoller GmbH & Co for the full range of the German specialist's tool presetting, measurement, software and tool management products in the UK and Ireland under managing director Andrew... [Read More]

Circular saw replaces cropping

Such is the increase in speed and performance of modern circular sawing machines that their productivity can exceed that of cropping, which historically was the faster process.
This is the experience of David Price, managing director of West Midlands firm, BB Price.
The company manufactures galvanized forgings and... [Read More]

Strong start to 2013 for Mills

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland has made a flying start to 2013.
Following on from a record-breaking 2012 which saw the company report sales in excess of Â£51m, Mills has announced that sales in January 2013... [Read More]

Match-up for Unisign

With the ink barely dry on the agreement to represent the range of Unisign machine tools in the UK, Matchmaker CNC has already sealed its first order for the Netherlands-based machine tool company.
A Unipro 5P... [Read More]

USETEC auction

A live auction of used machinery is planned for the opening day of USETEC 2013.
This will be organised by USETEC's technical sponsor, the FDM, Germany's Trade Association for Machine Tools and Tooling.
All USETEC exhibitors are invited to participate in the auction, which will give the... [Read More]

FDM look forward to USETEC

"Most companies in our expert group on used machinery enjoyed a very successful 2012," states Kurt Radermacher, managing director of Germany's Trade Association for Machine Tools and Tooling (FDM).
"Even though sales levelled... [Read More]

USETEC 2013: only four weeks to go

On 22-24 April 2013, USETEC will once again open its doors in Cologne, Germany. Approximately 400 exhibitors will present equipment representing every sector of manufacturing at the world trade fair for used technology.
The organisers, Hess GmbH and Koelnmesse, expect a strong influx of visitors from over 100 countries, especially from emerging markets.
This is due, among other things, to the economic... [Read More]