Latest Machinery Trade News: 4/21/13

Monday, April 22, 2013

GoIndustry DoveBid is hosting its latest MMX #139 online auction... [Read More]
1st Machinery is staging an auction of machinery from various UK sites... [Read More]
Maynards is facilitating an online auction of machinery used previously by GM Opel and BorgWarner... [Read More]
Asset Sales is conducting a public auction of equipment used previously by CHK Plc, Crewe, UK... [Read More]
Ferbid is hosting an auction of equipment owned previously by Flextronics, Tczew, Poland... [Read More]

Rapidprep

Saint-Gobain Abrasives has introduced its new portfolio of Vortex Rapid Prep products under the Norton brand.
Made of non-woven nylon impregnated with abrasive grain and patented smear-free resin, Norton Rapid Prep surface conditioning discs are suitable for surface finishing applications such as removing surface defects, oxides... [Read More]

Tool setting now faster and easier

Users of Mapal reamers and fine boring tools with HX indexable blades no longer need to manually set the back taper on the blades, thanks to an innovative new cassette design that takes account of this function. Not only does this significantly... [Read More]

Output figures rise again

New figures show that industrial production rose by more than expected in February, lifting hopes that the UK will avoid another recession.
Industrial production rose by 1% in February compared with January according... [Read More]

Okuma \'stories\' required

Okuma 'stories' required

Okuma America is encouraging users of its equipment to share success stories and best practices via the recently launched 'Tell Your Okuma Story' campaign.
Participants can write a brief synopsis or send a candid video about how they... [Read More]

Rolls-Royce choose Doosan

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has supplied two new Doosan machines to the RollsRoyce Apprentice Academy in Derby â€" a Lynx 220 lathe and a DNM 400 machining... [Read More]

Tongtai unveil new technology

Among a number of new machine tools unveiled by Taiwanese manufacturer Tongtai at the recent TIMTOS exhibition, one in particular stood out from the crowd.
The new ultrasonic assisted machining centre will be of interest to those machining hard materials.
The Tongtai T51-USA machine makes use of advanced technology... [Read More]

Lotus F1 install 6 machining centres

GF AgieCharmilles says it has supplied Lotus F1 Team with six new five-axis machining centres â€" all with integrated automation.
The HPM 450U machines have been installed at Lotus F1 Team's machine shop in Enstone... [Read More]

MACH 2014 sales up 25%

With a year to the opening of the MACH 2014 manufacturing technologies exhibition, sales are 25% up on MACH 2012 at the same point.
"This impressive early exhibition sales performance... [Read More]

Combined spraying and immersion

The new Palma aqueous cleaning machine from Mafac, Germany, for which Turbex is UK agent, is designed for efficient spray and flood washing of industrial components.
The front-loading, twin-tank machine... [Read More]

Starrag line up next CEO

Walter BÃ¶rsch will succeed Frank Brinken as the CEO of the Starrag Group during the company's AGM in 2014.
Mr BÃ¶rsch has been with the company for six years and served as COO for four years before assuming his current position as head of... [Read More]

Matsuura open US HQ

Matsuura Machinery USA, a subsidiary of Japan-based Matsuura Machinery Corporation, will host a grand opening celebration and press conference at its first US headquarters in St Paul, Minnesota on 14 May... [Read More]

YMT offer OMG angle heads

The latest addition to YMT Technologies Tooling Division's list of products is the OMG range of milling, drilling and tapping angle heads.
Based near Bologna, Italy, OMG has over five decades of experience manufacturing ancillaries such as angle heads... [Read More]

100th Haas installed at FSM

Durchhausen, Germany-based precision engineering company Fischer System-Mechanik is celebrating the purchase of its 100th Haas machine tool.
The new machine â€" a Haas Super Mini Mill, was unveiled during a handing-over ceremony... [Read More]

WNT UK report record turnover

WNT UK has reported another record year for sales with turnover for the cutting tool specialist breaking the Â£20m barrier for the first time through a combination of customer service, development of existing customers, new business and general positive market conditions.
â€œThe continued success... [Read More]

30 years of Edgecam

Edgecam is celebrating its 30th anniversary â€" the original CADCAM system was launched by Pathtrace in collaboration with Surrey University in 1983, changing its name to Edgecam on the same day that Windows 95 was released. Edgecam... [Read More]

Healthy FLA figures

New figures released by the Finance & Leasing Association (FLA) show that 28.7% of UK fixed capital investment was financed by FLA members in 2012, the highest level recorded since 2008.
The latest figures for February 2013 show that new business provided through leasing... [Read More]

Reid opt for CNC retrofits

In order to upgrade its machining capability, Chepstow-based Reid Lifting, has retrofitted Heidenhain TNC 320 contouring control system packages to two Bridgeport Interact vertical machining centres and a Richmond... [Read More]

Nisan install new HMC

As a result of receiving new, ongoing business from a manufacturer of flow meters used in the oil, gas and food industries worldwide, Leicester subcontractor, Nisan Engineering, has invested in an Akari four-axis horizontal... [Read More]

Kasto win award

At this year's IMHX international materials handling and logistics exhibition, held at Birmingham's national exhibition centre, Kasto won the IMHX Design 4 Safety Award 2013 in the category: Specialist Winner, Racking & Storage.
It was received for the company's Unitower... [Read More]

Hartford trio at Pacson

The accuracy and longevity, as well as the value for money, of a Hartford vertical machining centre that has been operating at Pacson Valves for more than seven years convinced the Dundee-based manufacturer to return to machine supplier, TW Ward CNC Machinery (Ward CNC), when it needed additional capacity to meet increasing demand from clients in the oil and gas industries.
According to production supervisor, Peter Dolan, the Kappa 1300 VMC has proved itself convincingly on the companyâ€™s range of high integrity valves â€" ball, gate, needle... [Read More]

Good year for Apperley

Celebrating 50 years in the subcontract honing industry is in itself an achievement, but Apperley Honing is proving that 2013 is going to be another very successful year with the used machine department having already sold... [Read More]

Pietro Cucchi open in UK

Pietro Cucchi, a Milan-based specialist in bar loader technology, has opened a new sales and service centre in Coventry to supply and support customer bar loader requirements across the UK and Ireland.
Compatible with... [Read More]

CNC multi ups output at ATP

Northampton based automotive subcontractor, Auto Turned Products (ATP), has purchased a 32mm capacity Index multispindle CNC automatic from Geo Kingsbury Machine Tools.
"Before we bought the CNC multi I read an article about a UK subcontractor that runs four similar machines with just one operator," says CNC production... [Read More]

Metal price comparison site launches

A new price comparison website for raw materials has launched into the manufacturing sector.
RFQ Metal is said to benefit both parties in the commercial sale and... [Read More]