Latest Machinery Trade News: 8/11/13

Sunday, August 11, 2013

RNA is staging an online auction of equipment used previously at Harding Tube Co, Novi, Michigan, USA... [Read More]
MGR Appraisals is holding an online auction of lots owned formerly by Cronation Ltd, Birmingham, UK... [Read More]
Troostwijk is conducting an online auction of metal processing machines based in Zofingen, Switzerland... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is facilitating an online auction of various machine tools... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online auction of equipment used previously by Sogefi Filtration, Llantrisant, UK... [Read More]

Konecranes launch CXT

The new Konecranes CXT hoist concept is said to combine space efficiency and high reliability with long service life.
It features a compact and robust design equipped with extremely low headroom and small-end approaches.
Standard CXT cranes can be implemented with single-girder or double-girder construction, a fixed single-girder... [Read More]

Clean sweep

According to Filtermist, the company's Chinese distributor En-Creative has installed 29 compact filtration units on Tsugami and Tornos machines at a new plant in Tianjin, where Zheng Tian will manufacture a range of orthopaedic devices.
Zheng Tian products... [Read More]

Exitex acquire more Mecals

Dundalk-based Exitex, a manufacturer of fenestration products, has acquired two Mecal Kosmos four-axis CNC machining centres from Addison Saws... [Read More]

Hyundai Wia head west

Hyundai Wia celebrated the opening of its first ever West Coast Solution Centre with an official ribbon cutting ceremony in Cypress, California.
The new facility features a showroom with capacity for up to eight CNC machine tools to be on display and under power for live demonstrations... [Read More]

Midas touch for Haas

Bedford-based moulding specialist, Midas Pattern, has acquired a Haas VF9/50 vertical machining centre. Specified with a heavy duty, robust 50 taper spindle, the machine is well suited to machining both billet... [Read More]

WEC install fibre laser

A Bystronic fibre laser CNC profiling machine installed at the Darwen factory of WEC Group has resulted in significant cost savings when processing stainless steel sheet in the 1.5 to 4mm thickness range.
Some nests can be... [Read More]

Jier secure Ford stamp of approval

State-owned Jier Machine Tool Group of Shandong Province has won its sixth order from Ford for high speed stamping equipment, breaking the stranglehold that German companies have had for the past 20 years.
The new stamping line... [Read More]

Entry level VMC

German Machine tool builder, Spinner, is set to introduce a new, entry level, vertical machining centre called U5-620 Compact.
Available in the UK from Whitehouse Machine Tools, the competitively priced machine is expected to be popular with job shops looking to break into fiveface machining. Unlike most early entry five-axis models on the... [Read More]

Grinding stations for worm gears

Holroyd's new WG Series 'grinding stations' are said to bring ultra-precision to worm gear manufacture.
The stations incorporate the company's 'Smart' probe and selfcorrection CNC technology to support high levels of accuracy, finish and productivity.
Depending on the model selected, users can grind... [Read More]

Designs on expansion

Brown & Holmes, a specialist in precision workholding and subcontract machining services, has increased its design team yet again.
As a result of increasing demand, the company has promoted John Nutter... [Read More]

Guyson appoint ETC

Industrial finishing equipment manufacturer Guyson International has appointed Kilmarnock-based Engineering Tools & Consumables (ETC) as its distributor for Scotland.
The two companies... [Read More]

Composite parts improve racing car

Tailored carbon composite components from ARRK have improved the production of the pioneering BAC Mono racing car, which is made by Briggs Automotive.
ARRK says that a combination of carbon and glass pre-preg material (autoclave cured), has resulted in the client being delighted with the new... [Read More]

ThyssenKrupp plant

ThyssenKrupp has begun building a new production facility for camshafts at its Chemnitz plant. In the coming months, a new production shop fitted with state-of-the-art machinery and equipment is to be built on an area directly adjacent to the existing production buildings.
Construction work is scheduled... [Read More]

Record MTD order

Tipton-based precision engineering company, Midland Tool and Design, is set for a major expansion after securing one of its biggest-ever contracts.
The company has leased three units near its current headquarters which will be dedicated to the project â€" stamping motor laminations for a leading manufacturer of domestic heating appliances.
The 20% expansion will see MTD diversify into areas... [Read More]

Â£100k funding aids expansion

CNC Robotics has used a Â£100,000 loan from the North West Fund for Loans Plus (managed by FW Capital) to equip its new 10,000 sq ft facility in Aintree.
Having increased its capacity, the company can now provide customers with a wider range of services, including turnkey machining, 3D scanning and machining to create rapid prototypes, as well as engineering support and repairs.
"The loan has enabled us to invest in the new robots, technology... [Read More]

Subcontract inspection facility opens

Hexagon Metrology UK has opened a new dedicated subcontract inspection and measurement facility at its head office in Telford.
New PMM, reference and gantry machines have been added to the service, which has also been boosted with the appointment of two new inspection application engineers.
The 10-strong... [Read More]

Mike Schwarz, 31 July 2013

With huge sadness, RK International Machine Tools Ltd has announced the death of Mike Schwarz, aged 68, who died on 31 July 2013.
Mike joined the company founded by his father, Ray, when he was in his early 20s.
Prior to RK, Mike had shown his business potential by becoming assistant manager at Pearl Assurance in Croydon â€" the company's youngest ever assistant manager at just 21.
Shortly after, he... [Read More]

Delapena promote from within

Delapena Honing Equipment has announced that Martin Elliott (pictured) has stepped up to the role of managing director with the brief to oversee the ongoing resurgence in demand for new honing technology.
Mr Elliott joined Delapena three and a half years ago as operations director, working alongside company owner David Arthur, to help develop new honing machines and evolve... [Read More]

Trumpf sales figures climb

In the 2012-13 financial year ending in June, Trumpf Group says it generated sales of â‚¬2.35bn, which corresponds to a small increase of 1% over the previous year's sales of â‚¬2.33bn.
This annual sales figure is the highest in the company's... [Read More]

Energy sector prompts gauge investment

Since breaking into the competitive oil and gas sector, Lancashirebased subcontractor Standish Engineering has decided to invest in industry-specific gauges to complement its co-ordinate measuring machine technology.
After extensive market research, the company discovered the Gagemaker range on the Bowers website.
"Rather than our previouslyused comparative... [Read More]

Machining centre also turns

A new machining centre, called UniSpeed 6, has been developed by the German manufacturer, SHW, for producing large, complex components weighing up to 8 tonnes.
There is also a mill-turn version on which the 3 by 1.6m table is replaced by a 1.6m diameter rotary... [Read More]

Fast metal removal rates

Makino's new F8 and F9 vertical-spindle machining centres are capable of fast metal removal rate when milling and drilling large components, from forging dies, injection moulds and stamping tools, through to aluminium and titanium aircraft parts, says NCMT, sole UK agent for the Japanese manufacturer.
Makino's 10,000 rpm spindle combined with BT50 or HSKA100 tools have the... [Read More]

China exports five-axis CNC machine tool

An advanced CNC machine tool has been shipped to Germany from the northeast China port of Dalian in what is being cited as the country's first export of cutting edge machining technology to a developed economy.
The high speed, five-axis... [Read More]