Latest Machinery Trade News: 10/27/13

Monday, October 28, 2013

1st Machinery is facilitating an online auction of two Cincinnati machine tools located at its Leicester, UK site... [Read More]
BVA is hosting an online auction of machines used formerly by Van Brakel Hilversum BV, Hilversum, the Netherlands... [Read More]
Apex is holding an online auction of equipment owned previously by a major machine tool manufacturer and others. Lots, located at Scunthorpe, UK... [Read More]
CRG is conducting an online auction of machines used previously by AGMK, Tel Aviv, Israel... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is staging an online auction of equipment used previously by Anochrome Jigs, Derby, UK... [Read More]

Â£2.6m orders for Citizen

With over 200 people attending the recent Citizen Machinery UK open house at its headquarters near Watford, orders placed over the three days exceeded Â£2.6m for 13 machines.
One existing customer (Lemac of East Lothian) committed... [Read More]

Delcam add Mori

Birmingham-based Delcam Professional Services has increased its range of five-axis machining with the addition of a Mori... [Read More]

HVM name ops director

A former manufacturing director at Jaguar Land Rover has been appointed as the new director of operations at the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
Ian Collier's new role will include leading a number of new business areas including skills and e-infrastructure.
His background includes... [Read More]

Cylinder maker chooses Thompson

Hydraulic cylinder manufacturer, Sahgev, has installed a Thompson friction welding machine at its factory in France.
The Gevigney-based company is using the equipment to join a range of chromed bar piston rods from 20 to 70mm... [Read More]

Main Tool opt for Aberlink

Belshill-based precision engineering specialist, Main Tool Co, has invested in an Aberlink Zenith Too CMM to help alleviate strain on the company's existing CMMs which were overburdened due to increasing orders from existing and new customers.
"Although the accuracy of the CMM was of paramount importance, the proposed machine's speed of operation was also a major consideration,"
says Stewart Miller, QA manager.
"Having had demonstrations... [Read More]

Hundreds attend Dugard open house

People were pouring through the doors at the recent Dugard open house in Hove, where hundreds of visitors got to see many of the company's latest machines, a number of which were in action performing live demonstrations.
"Two Dugard 65 twin-turret SY machines [launched at EMO in September] with Hydrafeed barfeeds were sold for an application involving bearing housing machining," says managing director, Eric Dugard... [Read More]

Start-up selects Doosan

Didcot-based start-up company, Endeavor Engineering has invested in four new Doosan machine tools from Mills CNC.
The first three machines â€" a Puma 2600 lathe, a Puma 2600Y lathe with integrated Y-axis and a DNM large capacity... [Read More]

Leader CNC open doors

Following the successful launch of a number of new Kitamura machine tool innovations at the recent EMO in Hanover, Leader CNC has announced it will be holding an open house event at its Nuneaton headquarters... [Read More]

Confidence returning

Statistics out last week from the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) show that confidence among key suppliers of machine tools and equipment to engineering-based manufacturing is at a two year high.
Furthermore, the level of confidence about the future is at its highest since mid-2011, while a large majority of companies... [Read More]

Trumpf invest in JFY

Trumpf has acquired a majority stake of approximately 72% in Jiangsu Jinfangyuan CNC Machine Co (JFY), a Chinese machine tool manufacturer.
JFY manufactures machines for sheet metal processing and, in terms of output quantities, ranks as the Chinese market leader for punching and... [Read More]

Over 200 attend tech show

Agie Charmilles has reported that its recent milling and EDM technology show, held at the companyâ€™s Coventry facility, was a resounding success.
Well over 200 visitors attended the event over the four days.
As well as generating high quality enquiries, the event also resulted in sales being taken, with... [Read More]

Bridgeports speed prototype projects

Royston, Hertfordshirebased Prototype Projects, a specialist in the fast turnaround production of low volume and one-off components, has purchased three Bridgeport GX 480 three-axis vertical machining centres from the Engineering Technology Group.
"Working for design consultancies, we never... [Read More]

Presses help shape future

Sheet metal forming specialist, WWS Metallformen, located in HatzenbÃ¼hl, Germany, has invested in two new presses from AP&T: an ODEN-FT with 800 tonnes of press force and an ODEN-WP with... [Read More]

Haas open Mielec HTEC

Haas Automation Europe has opened no less than its 11th HTEC (Haas Technical Education Centre) in Poland â€" its 72nd in Europe.
The new facility is located in Mielec, a rapidly expanding industrial hotspot approximately 100km east of Krakow... [Read More]

MAG receive auto award

On the occasion of this year's Renaultâ€"Nissan suppliers' meet, held in Chennai, India, machine tool specialist MAG received the prestigious award of Best Capital Equipment Supplier 2013.
In the presence of the corporate management of both the French and Japanese... [Read More]

Karakoram buy electric car co

Karakoram Motors of Karachi has agreed to buy the design and manufacturing operations of Canada-based Dynasty Electric Car, which has been making electric cars... [Read More]

XYZ sell 19 machines in two days

Even an hour before the official opening of Manufacturing South West, a new exhibition hosted by XYZ Machine Tools, an 'early bird' customer was on the doorstep of the company's headquarters in Tiverton, Devon, wanting to see machines and promptly placed an immediate order for two.
Says managing director Nigel Atherton: "This was not pre-planned; the customer was really busy, heard about the event, needed machines urgently and was on his way back... [Read More]

14,500+ at Metalex Vietnam

Duangdej Yuaikwarmdee, the deputy managing director of Reed Tradex, organiser of the recent Metalex Vietnam exhibition, says that the three-day show attracted 14,580 visitors through the doors in Ho Chi Minh City.
Component manufacturers, technology providers, agents... [Read More]

High pressure deburring

Having secured a new contract to supply machined castings for a sixspeed automatic gearbox to the Ford transmissions facility near Bordeaux, Witham-based Amtek Aluminium Castings found itself with a requirement for washing and deburring these components... [Read More]

IMTMA change president at annual session

The Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA) organised its 67th annual session recently at BIEC, Bangalore, an event that witnessed a change in the association's... [Read More]