Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of three Citizen Cincom B12-VI CNC sliding head lathes available due to investment in new equipment... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is holding an online auction of industrial manufacturing equipment located in Germany... [Read More]
Mckay is hosting a tender sale of modern structural steel and fabrication plant used previously by SIAC Butlers Steel, Portarlington, Ireland... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is holding an online auction of machinery used previously by Goodrich Actuation Systems, Liverpool, UK... [Read More]
CJM Asset is staging a private treaty sale of unused steel uncoiling and roll forming equipment for inner and outer roof and wall panel skins... [Read More]

Rapid-Air choose TMA

Rapid-Air choose TMA

TMA Engineering has announced that it has become an official distributor for Rapid-Air feeding and coil handling equipment.
Rapid-Air designs, manufactures, sells and supports a full line of air feeds, servo feeds, transporters, straighteners, stock reels, pallet reels, cutters, cut-to-length machines... [Read More]

Touch screen for Haeger

Touch screen for Haeger

The latest generation of Haeger insertion presses now come with touch screen control.
Features include: a tonnage setting for quick and accurate obtaining of insertion force required; dwell setting; electronic... [Read More]

Beckwood supply hydroformer

Beckwood supply hydroformer

Beckwood Press Co, a manufacturer of custom hydraulic presses and the Triform line of sheet hydroforming presses, says it has recently built and installed a new Triform deep draw sheet hydroforming press for an automotive parts manufacturer specialising in rapid prototyping.
The 25-10-12SC Triform features a 635 mm diameter forming area, 689 bar of forming pressure and a 300 mm draw depth capacity.
It is the second deep draw Triform for this customer's facility â€" a Triform 16-10-7BD had been installed previously.
Among the reasons cited for specifying the... [Read More]

Atotech invest in Arku leveller

Atotech invest in Arku leveller

Arku reports it has sold a FlatMaster 55 servohydraulic leveller to Atotech GmbH in Freucht, Germany.
The leveller is made for sheet metal parts from 0.5-12 mm thick and a width of up to 1600 mm.
According to Arku, the customer decided to purchase the FlatMaster 55 as it reduces residual stresses when levelling the sheet metal material... [Read More]

Schuler offer can-do attitude

Schuler offer can-do attitude

Beverage can manufacturer Beihai Jinmeng has improved its performance in the Chinese market with aid of a Schuler cupping press.
Late last year, Beihai Jinmeng started producing beverage cans at its new facility in which it had invested around €80m.
At the heart of the production line is... [Read More]

Hare alliance with Röcher

Hare alliance with Röcher

UK-based hydraulic press manufacturer, PJ Hare, has linked up with German counterpart Röcher GmbH to forge an alliance that will help it expand its activities
across the continent and the rest of the world. With Röcher specialising in larger presses from 100 to 1600 tonnes, this logical tie-up marks a big step forward for both companies.
Röcher also has the capacity... [Read More]

Save energy with AP&T

Save energy with AP&T

AP&T is introducing energy-saving technology to its hydraulic presses.
The technology is called 'Frequency Drive System' and is similar to the start/stop function found in modern vehicles.
AP&T has been testing the new system both in simulated testing environments and under actual operating conditions with customers... [Read More]

Bruderer pressing for growth

Bruderer pressing for growth

At the MACH 2014 exhibition in Birmingham earlier this year, Bruderer UK showcased â€" for the first time anywhere in the world â€" the fully operational Bruderer BSTA 280-75 with newly-designed BPG planetary gearbox together with Leicht Stanzautomation drum decoiler and rewinder.
The machine had already been bought in a £500,000... [Read More]

£45m servo stamping line

£45m servo stamping line

Carmaker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has invested £45m in a new manufacturing facility at its Halewood factory in Merseyside.
The new servo stamping line, the first of its kind to be built in the UK, is 13 m tall and more than 85 m long.
It has a combined press stamping capacity of 7900 tonnes, making it the fastest and one of the biggest and most powerful press lines across... [Read More]

New MD at Star

New MD at Star

From 1 July 2014, Steve Totty will take over as managing director of Star Micronics GB. The previous managing director, Bob Hunt, will remain as a consultant to the sliding head lathe specialist.
Mr Totty has developed... [Read More]

Digital mill-drill launched

Digital mill-drill launched

The Axminster SX3 Mill Drill DIGI is a mill/drill with the added benefit of a digital read-out (DRO) system for the table position.
All the other features... [Read More]

600 UK expand sales team

600 UK expand sales team

600 UK has expanded its UK and European direct sales operation by appointing two experienced team members to become primary sales contacts for Colchester and Harrison training lathes, and the Pratt Burnerd International (PBI) workholding... [Read More]

JLR invest £200m to boost Halewood

JLR invest £200m to boost Halewood

A £200m investment that will create 250 new jobs has been announced at the Halewood, Merseyside plant of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which has been announced as the site to build the new Discovery Sport (on sale in 2015).
The additional jobs will take the number of people employed at the Halewood plant to 4750.
The facility... [Read More]

Beakbane open factory

Beakbane open factory

Beakbane, a manufacturer of bellows and machinery protection systems, opened its new factory in Kidderminster on 16 June.
Inside, a new engineering laboratory now provides facilities for product testing and development, while new stores and despatch areas enhance customer response... [Read More]

Blown away by Clean.Tec fan

Blown away by Clean.Tec fan

According to Thame Engineering, many machine shops are still wasting time and energy blowing chips and cutting fluid off the workpiece and table with a compressed air line.
However, now available in the UK from Thame, the Lang Clean.Tec fan is said to provide an efficient and cost effective solution to this housekeeping problem.
Available in... [See Video]

More business at MACH

More business at MACH

Business worth £177m has been attributed to MACH 2014, an increase of over 20% on the previous MACH in 2012.
The figure has emerged from an analysis of exhibitors' feedback following Britain's biggest manufacturing technologies event.
James Selka, CEO of the Manufacturing Technologies Association (the owner... [Read More]

Funds for graduate places

Funds for graduate places

Enscite, the Derby-based organisation created to support SMEs in the transport engineering supply chain, has launched a new funding initiative for employers in the East Midlands looking to get graduates into their business.
The Enscite graduate funding scheme... [Read More]

Müller Opladen appoint South Africa agent

Müller Opladen appoint South Africa agent

First Cut has been appointed by Müller Opladen, a manufacturer of pipe profile cutting machines and automated welding equipment, to act as the company's sales and service agent in South Africa.
At its plant in Opladen, Germany, the Müller product range includes pipe profile cutting machines, turntables, motorised roller beds, columns and booms, and longitudinal and circumferential seam... [See Video]