Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

CJM Asset Management is facilitating an online auction of a machinery owned previously by Invicta Merchant Bar, Isle of Sheppey, UK... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is conducting an online auction of machines located in Gosselies, Belgium... [Read More]
Tallon is hosting an online auction of metalworking and fabrication equipment... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of machines used previously by DG Steel & Son, Bury, UK... [Read More]
Solutions for Industry is holding an online auction (in progress) of machinery used formerly by a world class gas turbine OEM... [Read More]

RoboCut on display

RoboCut on display

Last month's MACH 2014 exhibition at the Birmingham NEC provided Fanuc UK with the opportunity to show a RoboCut wire EDM from its α-CiA series.
Among the user benefits of RoboCut machines are a measuring system with high resolution (0.05 μm) linear scale, wire feed with servo technology and a start-hole search... [Read More]

Premium grade graphite

Premium grade graphite

Tokai Carbon has recently unveiled a new grade of graphite which will be available exclusively in Europe.
HK-10 is a high quality, premium grade graphite intended for use in the extremely competitive EDM market, says the company.
It is designed to have the attributes of higher grades,... [Read More]

HK put on a show

HK put on a show

At last month's MACH 2014 exhibition at the Birmingham NEC, HK Technologies, the sole UK representative for Mitsubishi Electric, promoted the MV-R and MV-S wire EDM models as the centrepieces of its stand.
These machines have a different take on drive technology, using a cylindrical configuration instead of linear drives.
At the core of this breakthrough are innovative tubular shaft motors... [Read More]

CADCAM for wire EDM machining

CADCAM for wire EDM machining

BobCAD-CAM has introduced its v26 Wire EDM two- and four-axis CADCAM software.
New features start with machining wizards for creating outside and inside cutting toolpaths as well as open shape cutting for two-axis and fouraxis programming.
The new machining wizards step the operator through all of the necessary stages required to create a program, while the new machining strategies allow the operator to add rough cut, skim cut and tab cut operations on the... [Read More]

Makino unveil EDBV8 for turbine holes

Makino unveil EDBV8 for turbine holes

Makino has released its EDBV8 fast-hole EDM drilling machine for the production of film cooling holes and shaped diffuser holes in blade and vane segments. According to the company, the new machine is suited to large turbine engine component machining for the aerospace and power generation markets.
The EDBV8 offers X-, Y-, Zand W-axis travels... [Read More]

TEK4 fast hole drill

TEK4 fast hole drill

TEK4 has launched a new generation of fast-hole drilling machine called the TEK4 4g S FHD EDM.
This model features improved performance and an integrated toolchanger allowing electrodes and guides to be changed for unmanned operation.
According to TEK4, the increase... [Read More]

FeatureCAM enhanced

FeatureCAM enhanced

Delcam's 2014 R2 version of FeatureCAM now includes improvements to wire EDM strategies.
For parts needing wire EDM processing, the model is often supplied only with a curve showing the shape to be cut, rather than a fully defined feature.
FeatureCAM can now project the curve through the stock and also measure the thickness of the feature.
This allows the cutting conditions, including feeds, speeds... [Read More]

Boost production with \'Transformer\'

Boost production with 'Transformer'

GF Machining Solutions' System 3R Transformer is a scalable automation platform based on standardised modules that is designed to ensure a greater return on capital investments.
Transformer allows users to begin with one or two machines and later add up to 12 machines in a single cell.
The machines do not have to... [Read More]

Sodick AG600L brings wire EDM in-house

Sodick AG600L brings wire EDM in-house

Derby-based Promach 3D, a supplier of precision engineering services, has purchased a new Sodick AG600L LP2WH Premium from Sodi-Tech EDM to help it bring vital aerospace work in-house.
Eliminating the previous cost of subcontracting, typical workload for the machine includes the manufacture of complex test pieces and the cutting... [Read More]

3D print JV

3D print JV

Trumpf (55% stake) has agreed on a joint venture in the additive manufacturing sector with Italy's biggest laser manufacturer SISMA SpA (45%).
The latter is based in Piovene Rocchette near Vicenza, where the two companies plan to co-develop... [Read More]

US orders rise

US orders rise

US manufacturing technology orders totalled $492.78m in March according to the Association for Manufacturing Technology (AMT).
This figure, as reported by companies... [Read More]

Open house brings £252k

Open house brings £252k

XYZ Machine Tools' open house celebrating the company's 30th anniversary saw customers order six machines valued at £252,000.
However, even before the open house began, the party had already started for XYZ with the announcement that April had been the best ever month for sales... [Read More]

Tube bender helps BA

Tube bender helps BA

Unison has won a tube bending machinery order from British Airways.
For use in the company's Heathrowbased aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility, the order calls for Unison to supply a turnkey solution for fabricating precision tubular parts based on two bending machines.
One is a semi-manual bender with CNC, while the other is a fully CNC allelectric model.
Unison will also be providing associated tooling together with a portable CMM... [Read More]

Reseller event sets record

Reseller event sets record

A total of 259 independent specialists from around the world attended Vero Software's largest ever global reseller conference in Orlando, USA.
Delegates from more than 35 countries, representing over 1500 years of combined CAM experience congregated to see the latest product developments, discuss future direction and get an... [Read More]

Masterclass from Axminster

Masterclass from Axminster

With the support of NEF, Axminster Tools & Machinery has hosted a one day 'Innovative Skills Workshop Masterclass' for FE college lecturers within engineering and technology disciplines.
The day focused on demonstrations and the use of CNC machinery, and how in simple terms these can aid the progress and development... [Read More]

Haco Kingsland is ace in hole

Haco Kingsland is ace in hole

To facilitate holemaking operations in heavy steel L-profiles as part of a new three-year construction industry contract, Ateliers Jean Del'Cour of Liège, Belgium has purchased a Drillflex automatic CNC machining centre from Haco Kingsland.
Acquired based on its attributes of speed and precision, the company estimates it will earn back most of its investment in the machine... [Read More]

USETEC 2014 final report

USETEC 2014 final report

The USETEC 2014 exhibition held in Cologne earlier this month has proved a resounding success as the organiser reports that 5713 visitors from 102 countries visited the show.
The European Association of Machine Tool Merchants (EAMTM) had 35 members at USETEC and general secretary André Skenazi reports that a number of sales were concluded.
One member company, France Machines Outils, took several trade fair... [Read More]

Crowds head to WIN 2014

Crowds head to WIN 2014

The 19th edition of the WIN (World of Industry) Metal Working exhibition is set to open its doors on 5-8 June at the Congress Centre in Istanbul, Turkey.
The show provides an increasingly popular portal to the latest metalcutting and metalforming machine tools, along with measurement, testing and quality assurance... [Read More]