Latest Machinery Trade News: 10/6/13

Monday, October 07, 2013

Peaker Pattinson is holding an online collective auction... [Read More]
1st Machinery is facilitating an online auction of equipment used formerly at various UK sites... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is staging an online auction of equipment used previously by Farmer Automatic, Laer, Germany... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of machinery used formerly by Gramton Eng Co Ltd and others... [Read More]
CRG is hosting an online auction of a CNC machining facility in Tel-Aviv, Israel... [Read More]

Machine life set to double?

The University of Huddersfield is playing a key role in a â‚¬6.2m research project that could result in machine tools doubling their lifespan.
The project is funded by the European Union's FP7 programme.
The University of Huddersfield is the home to the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology... [Read More]

Automation agreement

Siemens Drive Technologies Division and Kuka Roboter GmbH have announced a co-operative agreement.
The central pillar of the co-operation is integration of Kuka robots and Siemens CNC solutions for loading machine tools.
With the shared development, customers... [Read More]

$3.9bn THAAD contract award

US-based Lockheed Martin has received a production contract totalling $3.9bn to produce elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapons system for the US Army and the United Arab Emirates.
THAAD interceptors are produced... [Read More]

Qingdao approach 600 Group

The 600 Group says it has received an approach from Qingdao D&D Investment Group Co Ltd that may lead to a cash offer being made for the company.
The UK-based 600 Group manufactures Colchester and Harrison lathes, Pratt Burnerd workholding equipment, Electrox laser marking... [Read More]

Fenn market Speroni presetters

A new force has emerged in the sale of tool presetting equipment in the UK and Ireland, following an agreement between cutting tool supplier, Fenn Tool, and NCMT, the main agent for Italian-manufactured Speroni tool presetters.
Under the terms of the agreement... [Read More]

Forming tie-up

US-based Vari-Form has signed a joint venture agreement with Emarc SpA of Italy.
The new agreement increases manufacturing footprints for Vari-Form in Europe and Emarc in North America.
Going forward, both companies will offer... [Read More]

FFG and MAG sign agreement

The Fair Friend Group (FFG) of Taiwan has acquired the Industrial Equipment business unit of the MAG Group (MAG).
The business unit is part of the German company MAG IAS GmbH and comprises manufacturing plants and service locations in Mosbach, Taunusstein, Chemnitz, Witten, Offenburg and partially GÃ¶ppingen, as well as the Russian sales and service entity.
In 2012, MAG IAS GmbH's part of the present business unit generated a sales volume of over â‚¬120m, making up 24% of MAG IAS GmbH's total revenue. The sale includes... [Read More]

24 barfeeds supplied to PP

1st Machine Tool Accessories says it has now supplied a total of 24 Iemca barfeeds to Brighton-based subcontractor, Precision Products Ltd.
Some 15 of the turning centres now adorned with Iemca barfeeds are Citizen sliding head models, while five of the remainder are fixed head Miyano lathes.
Seven types of Iemca feeder in various bar diameter variants... [Read More]

$1bn scholarship funds

Haas Automation, through the Gene Haas Foundation, is making available a $1m scholarship fund for machining and manufacturing education.
The scholarships â€" available immediately in Europe, Canada, USA and South Africa â€" are a gift from Gene Haas, the founder and CEO of Haas Automation... [Read More]

Enlarged pit furnace

Anticipating growing customer demand for processing larger gears, shafts and other components, Yorkshire-based subcontract heat treatment specialist Keighley Laboratories has enlarged the size of one of its biggest pit furnaces.
Increasing dimensions to 1110mm working diameter and almost 1800mm maximum length means... [Read More]

Vollmer UK grow turnover by 35%

Grinding and erosion specialist Vollmer UK has announced that its 2012 turnover witnessed a 35% improvement upon what was previously a successful 2011.
The increased turnover has seen the company... [Read More]

Rolls-Royce at MACH

The Manufacturing Technologies Association says that the latest company to exhibit at MACH 2014 will be Rolls-Royce.
The integrated power solutions provider for the civil and defence aerospace, marine and energy... [Read More]

Â£4m boost for VTL Group

Business Growth Fund (BGF), an independent company established to help Britain's growing businesses, has announced its investment in VTL Group, one of the UK's largest manufacturers of precision-engineered components for the automotive industry.
BGF has invested... [Read More]

Apperley declare machine success

Apperley Honing says it was recently approached by a start-up company in Norway seeking a honing machine on a limited budget and a tight lead-time.
Looking to hone oil industry parts in batches of between 1 and 8 components from materials such as high tensile steel, Inconel 718, Super Duplex and titanium... [Read More]

Record sales

With order intake of â‚¬276.4m and 1137 products sold, DMG Mori Seiki says it achieved a record sales figure at the EMO exhibition in Hanover last month... [Read More]

Manufacturing summit set for Shanghai

CECIMO, the European Association of the Machine Tool Industries, together with the organising partners of next year's EMTE-EASTPO machine tool exhibition, has launched a conference targeted at top machine tool buyers from China and the rest of Asia.
The CEO Summit to be held... [Read More]

Life begins at 40 for NDPP

Barnstaple-based ND Precision Products, a specialist manufacturer of mould tools and press tools, is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013.
To mark the occasion the company has just announced the recruitment of three new staff from nearby TE Connectivity (formally Tyco Electronics) to cope... [Read More]

Intelligence proves attractive

Of more than 30 machines sold from the Hurco stand at last month's EMO exhibition in Germany, nine were the new five-axis VMX42SRTi vertical machining centre with swivelling B-axis head, which was making its European debut.
Three other sizes of five-axis VMC in the manufacturer's latest 'i' series of intelligent machines were also sold.
All feature enhancements to machine control and connectivity as well as significantly reduced... [Read More]

Top prize for MTC at EMO

A pioneering hybrid manufacturing machine developed by the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry in collaboration with Hybrid Manufacturing Technologies Ltd, Delcam Plc and Hamuel Reichenbacher GmbH, has been exhibited at the EMO show in Hanover last month and was... [Read More]

New fluid can support growth at VSMPO

Redditch-based aerospace specialist, VSMPO Tirus, is now using Blaser Vasco 7000, a vegetable ester oil-based micro emulsion cutting fluid supplied by Jemtech on its recently installed Hurco VMX50T vertical machining centre.
Developed to help machine challenging materials including titanium and nickel-based alloys, the successful combination will be extended to a soon-to-arrive Doosan vertical machining... [Read More]

Spaeter opt for Kasto

To help meet the challenges of high daily throughput combined with a need to respond quickly and flexibly to special demands from customers, Swiss steel specialist, Carl Spaeter, has installed at its centre in Basle a Kasto sawing and storage system with integrated logistics and IT.
At Basle, Kasto has installed a Unicompact 3.0 honeycomb... [Read More]

20 years of ProtoTrak

Precisely 20 years ago this month XYZ Machine Tools launched into the UK a simple two-axis CNC called ProtoTrak.
The new control claimed to aid the programming and setting up of lathes and milling machines by a machinist with no prior knowledge of CNC.
Developed in the USA in the late 1980s by Southwestern Industries, such has been the level of success and industry acceptance that... [Read More]

Record year for Czech exporters

Czech exporters of machine tools registered record sales of KÄ14.07bn (â‚¬546.8m) in 2012, some 10.5% higher than in 2011, according to new data released by the Association of Engineering Technology (SST).
Grinding machines made up KÄ5.09bn... [Read More]