Latest Machinery Trade News: 7/14/13

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Sanderson Weatherall is conducting an online auction of equipment used previously by Spencer Industrial, Flintshire, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is facilitating an online auction of machines from various UK sites... [Read More]
Van Beusekom is hosting an online bankruptcy sale of machinery used previously by Europe Numeriek BV... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is holding an online auction of equipment used previously by a major subcontractor... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is staging an online auction of assets located in Oiartzun, Spain... [Read More]

Online blanks

A new business, Steelblanks.co.uk, has been created to meet demand from engineering companies, metal users and the general public seeking smaller sheets of steel. A sister enterprise of Nottingham-based Lasershape, Steelblanks.co.uk makes small size sheets... [Read More]

Javelin update

The latest release of Javelin production control software gives manufacturers the ability to generate works orders for potentially thousands of similar parts without having to originate bills of materials or routing records.
When entering sales orders, users can now... [Read More]

Women champions required

Midlands-based manufacturing network Made in the Midlands is seeking female engineers and local businesses to enter and sponsor its annual Made in the Midlands Awards.
By introducing the 'Women in Engineering' category for the first time, the network is targeting women working within manufacturing who act as role models and encourage... [Read More]

Support providers merge

Two business support providers based in the West Midlands have merged.
The West Midlands Manufacturing Consortium (WMMC) and Winning Moves have joined forces to create an organisation that is promising to help more than 1500 growing firms every year.
The not-for-profit body will be able to call upon... [Read More]

XYZ offer Swiss rotary tables

Any vertical machining centre in the range offered by XYZ Machine Tools can now feature fourth and fifth axis machining utilising the high precision of the Swiss manufactured Lehmann rotary tables.
The units can achieve 180Â° positioning within 0.5 secs, while maintaining accuracy to 10 arc/secs.
Lehmann has specialised in NC tables and positioning equipment for over 35 years during which time more than 10,000 units have been... [Read More]

Strongest growth in two years

UK manufacturing saw its strongest growth in two years in June, according to a survey, boosting hopes of a strengthening economic recovery.
The Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 52.5 last month, its highest level since May 2011. The figure adds to the increasingly positive data released in recent weeks on the UK economy, which grew by 0.3% in the first three... [Read More]

Dynamometer boosts productivity

Coventry-based cutting tool manufacturer, Exactaform, has installed a cutting force dynamometer based on a Kistler Instruments piezoelectric multi-component force link set and amplifier.
The force link set is installed in a bespoke
force plate assembly machined in-house.
"We chose the Kistler force link set because it allows us to analyse the... [Read More]

Rotary table suits Brunswick

Brighouse-based Brunswick Tooling recently asked Hurco to supply a five-axis machining centre configuration based on one of its three-axis models fitted with a two-axis NC tilting rotary table.
To ensure rigidity and hence vibration-free machining, long tool life and component accuracy, a Kitagawa rotary tilting table was sourced through sole agent, 1st Machine Tool... [Read More]

Name change

Walter Ewag UK is the new name for Walter Machines UK - a change that better reflects the fact that the company sells and supports Ewag tool grinders as... [Read More]

Service manager appointment

Users in Britain and Ireland of Index and Traub CNC lathes as well as Hermle, SHW and Zimmermann machining centres that require service or repair will now be directed to Robin Matthews, newly appointed service... [Read More]

World\'s largest robot plant

World's largest robot plant

Yaskawa Electric, a Japanese manufacturer of industrial robots, says it will set up the world's largest robot factory in Changzhou, China.
With total investment of US$49m, the new plant will be Yaskawa... [Read More]

Delcam appoint Mexican reseller

Delcam Mexico, Delcam's recently founded joint venture in Mexico, has appointed NC Tech to supply and support the Delcam for SolidWorks integrated CAM system in Mexico... [Read More]

Rapid-setting chucks

The Rota NCD wedge bar power chuck from Schunk claims to clamp small diameters as quickly and precisely as it does large diameters.
Instead of changing lathe chucks and collet chucks, which can be a tedious task, only the top jaws of the Rota NCD have to be changed against special collet jaws, thus minimising set-up times. The most striking feature of the Rota NCD is its large through-hole, which allows... [Read More]

MSS Lasers double space

Following the opening of its new showroom in 2010, MSS Lasers has now doubled the size of its Rugby headquarters to 32,000 sq ft to cope with increasing demand for its nitrogen generation modules and pre-owned laser cutting machines.
At any one time MSS... [Read More]

Precision machining at LG Motion

Basingstoke-based LG Motion, a specialist in motion control technology, has taken delivery of a Dugard 660 vertical machining centre and a Dugard 200HT CNC lathe.
The latter is equipped with a Fanuc 0iT control, while the VMC is fitted with a Heidenhain i530.
Both machines are located in a manufacturing cell providing the business with both a first operation (on the lathe) and a second operation (on the VMC).
"The Dugard machines are... [Read More]

Fewer fatalities at work

The British Safety Council welcomes the latest reduction in the number of workers killed, but one death is one too many, it says.
Latest data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveals that 148 workers were fatally injured between April 2012 and March 2013, compared with 172 in the previous year.
However, one life lost at work is one too many and... [Read More]

NUM branch out in Korea

Controls specialist, NUM, has opened a subsidiary for applications support, sales and after-sales service in Seoul, Korea, to serve the countryâ€™s growing market for CNC machine tools.
This is the fourth Asian office for the CNC vendor, and results directly from the company's core business strategy of placing skilled applications engineering resources... [Read More]

Fiat press ahead

The Fiat production facility in Cassino, Italy now has five press hardening lines â€" all of them supplied by AP&T.
The production solutions include presses, automation, furnaces, robots and tools.
The equipment has a total production... [Read More]

AEC install three mill-turns

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK, has supplied three new multi-axis MX 2100ST mill-turn machines to Aero Engine Controls (AEC), a Birmingham-based manufacturer of engine control equipment systems.
The machines are being used to produce complex fuel metering unit parts... [Read More]

CECIMO endorse Eastpo

The EMTE-EASTPO machine tool exhibition being held in Shanghai in 2014 has received a warm response from leading names of the machine tool industry.
Following the announcement of the joint exhibition in February, there has been a steady stream of space applications and enquiries from... [Read More]

JMJ upgrade with new laser

Stevenage-based JMJ Precision Sheet Metal has installed a new Trumpf TruLaser 1030 CNC laser cutter.
The machine is designed to offer low investment and operating costs, making it suitable for manufacturers looking to embrace the latest profiling technology.
"Basically we required a laser cutter that could better accommodate the growing level of flexibility the market now demands," explains company chairman, Mark Lee.
"The new machine had to be comfortable processing low volume batches... [Read More]

Laser scanning creates additional business

At PMS Diecasting in Rotherham, products are now inspected by non-contact, 3D laser scanning to an accuracy of 2.5Î¼m, mirroring the precision of touch probing.
It has been made possible by the deployment of an LC15Dx laser scanner on an LK ceramic bridge co-ordinate measuring machine supplied by Nikon Metrology.
The investment in 3D laser scanning has also given... [Read More]

High rigidity turn-milling

Central to the rigidity of the latest Miyano BND-51SY2 turning centre is the 30Â° heavy duty slant bed construction that is cast in a compact format with the addition of precision hand scraped square guideways.
As a result, high orders of accuracy can be maintained with consistent levels of process repeatability achieved over extended... [Read More]

Metalforming holds steady

The June 2013 Business Conditions Report generated by the Precision Metalforming Association states that the North American market can expect little change in business conditions in the coming three months. The monthly report samples 117 metalforming... [Read More]