Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Hilco is facilitating an online auction of equipment used previously by Graham Wood Structural Ltd, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of machines used formerly by Aeroform Industries, UK... [Read More]
Fairfield Industries is hosting an online auction of equipment used previously by a pressure vessel manufacturer in Oswestry, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is holding an online auction of machinery from various UK sites... [Read More]
Maynards is conducting a live and online auction of a complete exhaust manufacturing facility in Loudon, Tennessee, US... [Read More]

FiberTool introduced

FiberTool introduced

Laser Mechanisms' new FiberTool is a patent pending device that aids in the alignment of standard multi-mode fibres used with Nd:YAG, fibre and disk lasers.
Unlike thermal-based systems that have a delayed response between measurements, FiberTool is said to deliver a real-time output signal to the user that is... [Read More]

College buys plasma cutter

College buys plasma cutter

Messer Cutting Systems has recently manufactured a bespoke plasma cutting machine tailored to the requirements of Derwentside College.
The new machine replaces an existing Messer plasma cutter that has been used for many years at the facility in Consett.
The Messer SpCutter has a 1m by 1m cutting bed and comes complete... [Read More]

Punch presses introduced

Punch presses introduced

Belgium-headquartered LVD has unveiled its next generation of punch presses with the Strippit PX series of 200kN machines.
The Strippit PX combines punching, forming, bending and tapping in a single machine for complete workpiece processing, including the production of complex, 3D parts, says LVD.
Designed using the Pullmax single head concept utilising Trumpf-style tooling, the Strippit PX-Series... [Read More]

Kerf launch cost effective CombiCut

Kerf launch cost effective CombiCut

Kerf Developments has extended its range of plasma and oxy fuel cutting machines with the launch of the new CombiCut profiling system.
Capable of piercing and cutting material from 1 to 150mm thickness, the gantry type CombiCut with an independent cutting table is said to eliminate the need for two machines... [Read More]

Laser encoders help cut 40m composites

Laser encoders help cut 40m composites

Flow International's Composites Machining Center (CMC) has been built for the single set-up waterjet processing of 40m long composite wing skins, and one of the keys to holding long axis accuracy during week-long machining cycles is said to be Renishaw's HS10/HS20 laser encoder. Measuring distance with the precision of... [Read More]

LSF choose Mitsubishi

LSF choose Mitsubishi

Welwyn Garden City-based LS Fabrications has purchased a Mitsubishi 4.5kW laser cutting machine from the company's sole UK agent, World Machinery.
Complementing the existing laser at LS Fabrications, the Japan-built Mitsubishi has an automatic pallet... [Read More]

Entry level flatbed laser

Entry level flatbed laser

Being launched into the UK is Amada's new entry-level flatbed laser profiling centre, the LCG3015.
Aimed at any sheet metal shop looking to achieve high speed cutting of thin to midthick materials, the Japan-built LCG3015 is set to become Amada's global standard flatbed laser cutter.
The machine is capable of processing mild steel up to 20mm thick, along with 10mm stainless steel and 8mm aluminium.
According... [Read More]

Six-axis laser boosts speed and quality

Six-axis laser boosts speed and quality

Manchester-based MSM (Middleton Sheet Metal), a specialist fabrication company serving the aerospace sector, has installed a Trumpf TruLaser Cell 7040 six-axis laser processing system to replace a previous CO2-based machine.
According to MSM, the investment has not only boosted productivity and quality, but introduced the potential for laser welding (as well as laser cutting) using the same system.
Housed in a purpose-built extension at MSM, the... [Read More]

Grail purchase ByStar 3015 to speed expansion

Grail purchase ByStar 3015 to speed expansion

Forest of Dean-based Grail Engineering has offered a fast turnaround fabrication service for nearly half a century. Historically, the company subcontracted laser cutting of various materials, from stainless and mild steels to aluminium.
However, this function has now been brought in-house following the purchase of a Swiss-built CO2 laser profiling machine... [Read More]

Open house date set

Open house date set

GF Machining Solutions (previously GF Agie Charmilles) is holding an open house at its Coventry facility on 11-13 March.
The EDM, milling and laser ablation machine tool specialist and automation systems solutions provider is using the event to launch a number of new machines into the UK.
The company will also showcase the machines' capabilities... [Read More]

Competition winner named

Competition winner named

Zhao Shi Cheng from the Beijing Automatic Engineering School in China has been named as the winner of Delcam's latest international student CAM competition.
Second and third places were taken by students from Korea â€" Won Jun, Lee from Korea Polytechnics and Hyun... [Read More]

AP&T supply press to VW

AP&T supply press to VW

AP&T has announced it will shortly deliver an additional hydroforming press to VW-FAW in Changchun, China.
This is AP&T's third transaction in a short amount of time in Changchun, and the second with... [Read More]

Riley recycle robots for skip producer

Riley recycle robots for skip producer

Riley Surface World recently completed the successful disposal of a large number of ABB robots and ancillary equipment from GKN Land Systems in Telford.
The robots were used previously for the MIG, spot and projection welding of commercial vehicle chassis.
One of the beneficiaries of the robot sale was Dtec... [Read More]

XYZ tasked with success

XYZ tasked with success

Hinckley-based subcontractor Task Engineering has added an XYZ Mini Mill 560 to its three existing XYZ ProtoTrak controlled turret mills and ProTurn 410 ProtoTrak controlled lathe.
"We've had the XYZ turret mills and lathes... [Read More]

SE Asia boost for Lattimer

SE Asia boost for Lattimer

Southport-based precision machining company, Lattimer, is reporting a surge in sales from southeast Asia that’s driving annual group turnover to more than £10m.
Lattimer chief executive officer Stephen Waterhouse says exports now account for 80% of total sales buoyed by recent five-figure deals in the Philippines and Indonesia.
Lattimer produces... [Read More]

VF-2 success spurs sales

VF-2 success spurs sales

China-based Suzhou Eric Company reports it has installed no less than 16 machine tools supplied by Haas Automation since it was established in 2009.
Furthermore, the company now employs 110 people and generates turnover of circa US$6.5m from the design and manufacture of parts for a host of industries.
The first Haas machine... [Read More]

Korean firm orders £180k borer

Korean firm orders £180k borer

The international sales operation of Ajax Machine Tools has won an £180,000 order from the Republic of Korea to supply an Ajax manual horizontal borer for producing large gearbox housings and valve bodies.
According to Ajax managing director William Savin... [Read More]

RK named Haco-Kingsland distributor

RK named Haco-Kingsland distributor

RK International Machine Tools has been appointed as a preferred distributor in the UK for Kingsland Engineering, part of the Haco group range of machine tools which encompasses sheet metal working equipment and structural steel working, through to extremely large machining centres with bed lengths up to 60m or more.
The appointment... [Read More]