Latest Machinery Trade News: 5/26/13

Monday, May 27, 2013

Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online collective auction of equipment at various UK sites... [Read More]
BVA is facilitating an online bankruptcy auction of equipment used previously by Rusch Kraantechniek BV, Netherlands... [Read More]
1st Machinery holding an online auction of various machines from an aerospace manufacturer, Wellingborough, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment used formerly by a major aerospace manufacturer... [Read More]
Solutions for Industry is staging a short notice private treaty sale of two Ravensburg KVH-4/1800 CNC lathes... [Read More]

Aberlink supply AP

Hull-based Advanced Plastics, a specialist in injection moulded products, has purchased a Zenith Too co-ordinate measuring machine from Aberlink Innovative Metrology.
"Having previously used an older, slower CMM... [Read More]

Cartwright create 300 jobs

Around 300 new jobs are being created at a Greater Manchester manufacturing firm.
The Cartwright Group, of Altrincham, builds transport trailers for customers that include Asda, Royal Mail and Airbus... [Read More]

Di-Spark secure TV spot

Portsmouth-based subcontractor Di-Spark will take part in a television programme on UK advanced manufacturing solutions.
The programme will be aired on 4 June at 19:00 on Sky digital channel 212 and Freesat channel 401.
The company is a specialist in EDM and multi-axis machining.
"The programme, focusing on the experience of a small... [Read More]

$360m Hyundai factory opens

The South Korean multinational, Hyundai, has inaugurated its first factory for heavy construction equipment outside of Asia.
At an investment of US$360m, operations have commenced with a capacity to produce up to 1000 machines a year, including bulldozers and backhoes.
Located at Itatiaia near Rio de Janeiro, it is estimated... [Read More]

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Nikon unveil Altera CMM

The new Altera range of bridge co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) from Nikon Metrology offer a shopfloor ready solution with passive anti-vibration and fully enclosed covers protecting the guideways from contamination and accidental damage.
Temperature compensation, for the workpiece and probe tip, is also available for... [Read More]

150th birthday for Meccano founder

Celebrations have started on Merseyside to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of Meccano, Hornby trains and Dinky toys.
A four-day festival will herald Liverpoolborn Frank Hornby, who is buried... [Read More]

Vollmer increase service staff

To coincide with the increase in business activity at Vollmer UK, the company has taken on three new members of staff, taking employee levels from 9 to 12, a 25% increase.
The appointment of Donald Draper and Kevin Jerabek as service engineers has been complemented by 19 year old apprentice, Jack Cooper.
"The bespoke service contracts and support... [Read More]

AMT add Lico

AMT Machine Systems is now the exclusive USA distributor for Lico Machines of Taichung, Taiwan.
AMT will offer two models from the Lico product family: the LNT-D and LNT-S series... [Read More]

Free forum

Materials technology company, Ceram, will be holding a free breakfast forum at its headquarters in Stoke-on-Trent on 14 June.
The forum will focus on how raw material shortages and ensuing market price increases are accelerating the need to re-engineer both waste and scarce materials... [Read More]

Tornos open Chinese company

In association with a machine tool manufacturer established in China, Tornos is investing in the development of a range of automatic lathes, as well as in setting up its own production capacity.
At present, mid-range products manufactured under alliance with Tsugami can only be offered in Europe.
The new strategy will help negate this clause.
Based in Xi'an (Shaanxi Province), the new company, Tornos Xi'an Machine Works Co Ltd, in which Tornos holds a 70% stake, designs... [Read More]

Seco attract the crowds

Seco Tools reports that its recentlyheld 'Seco Live' open house attracted over 200 visitors across the two-day event.
"Unlike many major UK cutting tool companies we have a custom tool production... [Read More]

Try titanium mill for free

WNT UK is offering a free trial, performed by one of its technical sales team, to any customer wishing to test its 2520 milling system.
Aimed at the high performance machining of titanium, superalloys and stainless steel components, key features of the A2520 series include: a stable and robust insert location; eight cutting edges per double sided... [Read More]

Â£1.5bn contracts for UK suppliers

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) announced last week that over half of the contract value (more than Â£1.5bn) for the new Jaguar F-Type has been placed with UK suppliers.
JLR says that 116 UK suppliers support the build of the Jaguar F-Type, with 50% from the West Midlands.
The first new Jaguar F-Type vehicles were loaded... [Read More]

Ford to build engines in Alabuga

Ford Motor plans to build an engine plant near the Ford Sollers car assembly venture in the Alabuga special economic zone of Tatarstan, central Russia.
The plant, Ford's sixth engine manufacturing facility in the world, will manufacture 105,000 car engines... [Read More]

DMG/Mori on investment trail

Mori Seiki says it has signed an agreement to acquire Veneto-based Micron SpA, one of its dealers in Italy, through DMG Mori Seiki Italia Srl.
Micron was established in 1991 and has 27 employees.
The news comes just days after DMG Mori... [Read More]

BHW snapped up by a2e

Amin Amiri, the founder of a2e Venture Catalysts has successfully beaten off competition from other bidders, including Hilco, to snap up Wigan-based aerospace engineering firm, BHW, which went into receivership recently.
The company employs 96 people and generates a turnover of circa Â£10m.
"BHW, now renamed as Aeroform Industries Ltd, is a great opportunity... [Read More]

A cut above the rest

Sheffield-based tooling manufacturer, Technicut, has invested in a Vomat filtration system from Oelheld UK to better serve its large portfolio of tool grinding machines.
"Rather than serving only one or two grinding machines, our newly installed Vomat filtration system is able to filter the coolant from a bank of nine Walter grinders," says manufacturing director... [Read More]

Ward Hi-Tech augment sales force

CNC machine tool distributor Ward Hi-Tech is expanding further its sales force by appointing Mark Lister (pictured) to cover the northwest region of the UK.
Mr Lister comes from an experienced sales background having previously spent 15 years as UK sales manager at workholding specialist WDS.
The news comes as Ward Ward Hi-Tech augment sales force Hi-Tech reports its largest ever... [Read More]

Craftsman open training school

An expanding engineering firm has marked its 60th anniversary by opening an apprentice training school.
Otley-based Craftsman Tools has added a 5000 sq ft extension to its 20,000 sq ft factory to create the new academy and expand the range and... [Read More]

XYZ plan European expansion

Plans to double the level of machine tool sales into mainland Europe to 20% of UK turnover have been set in motion by XYZ Machine Tools.
Key in the strategic move by managing director Nigel Atherton is the appointment of Andrew Kilshaw as export... [Read More]

Renishaw acquire AM pioneer

The business assets of LBC Laser Bearbeitungs Centre GmbH, Kornwestheim, Germany, have been purchased by the German subsidiary of Renishaw.
A new business, LBC Engineering, has been created which will be integrated... [Read More]

Intelligent clamping at ISC

Pragmatism and attention to detail when devising methods for workpiece clamping has boosted production efficiency at International Safety Components (ISC) to the point where manufacturing costs at the company's Bangor factory are reportedly comparable with the Far East.
"In the past couple of years, we have invested in 10 Chick System 5 Qwik-Lok workholding... [Read More]

GÃ¼hring to manufacture tools in Brazil

Cutting tool specialist, GÃ¼hring, is opening a new plant near SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil, which is expected to commence operations in February next year.
Located at Salto... [Read More]