Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Troostwijk is holding an online auction of metalworking machinery and tooling based in Willich, Germany... [Read More]
ES Group is staging an online auction of stonemasonary equipment used previously by Madison Henley, Wadebridge, UK... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is facilitating an auction of equipment used previously by Seco Tools, Lenoir City, USA... [Read More]
CJM Asset is hosting an online auction of aircraft equipment used previously by Ground Equipment Supplies Ltd, Lincoln, UK... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid DoveBid is conducting a fixed date private treaty sale of a 2000T aluminium extrusion line located near Logrono, Spain... [Read More]

Multi-Mini Rhinobar

Multi-Mini Rhinobar

Lexair's new Multi-Mini Rhinobar barfeed makes multi-diameter bar stock processing faster and easier with a feed-tube cartridge that automatically centres and feeds three sizes of small-diameter bar stock to Swiss-style CNC screw machines and sliding head lathes. Cartridges... [Read More]

LNS launches Express 112

LNS launches Express 112

The most recent addition to the product range of the LNS Group is the Express 112 barfeed.
Developed as a result of detailed market analysis, the Express 112 is aimed at the medical, electronics and connector industries.
It can process bars with a diameter of 0.8 to 12 mm. According to LNS, the Express 112 is... [Read More]

Market success

Market success

Capable of accommodating workpieces weighing up to 20,000 kg, Berthiez TVU vertical lathes available from Starrag UK are reportedly proving especially successful in the production of mid/largesize aerospace and power generation turbine and engine components.
The customer list includes: Techspace (Safran) of Belgium â€" currently two machines linked by Fastems flexible manufacturing system that will be continually expanded to achieve a ninemachine facility;... [Read More]

Colchester unveils Tornado EL range

Colchester unveils Tornado EL range

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first Tornado to enter the market, Colchester has launched its entry level Tornado EL range of twoand three-axis production CNC turning centres at a lower price than in 1994, since when over 10,000 have been supplied to countries around the world.
There are eight models in the new range, from the compact EL2, with a 42 mm spindle bore and 7.5 kW spindle motor producing... [Read More]

Integrated loader seals the deal at DS

Integrated loader seals the deal at DS

Dawson Shanahan, has invested in a pair of Ocean Cincom GN-3200W twinspindle CNC turning centres with integrated loading systems for producing plasma cutting shield nozzles.
Both machines were installed by Citizen Machinery at Dawson Shanahan's Potters Bar headquarters, where they now run around-the-clock, five days a week producing shield nozzle components at a rate of 70 parts an hour from each machine.
According to managing director Les Reeves, the selection of the Ocean Cincom GN... [Read More]

VTL cuts cycle times

VTL cuts cycle times

The installation by Ward CNC of a Hyundai-Wia vertical turning lathe (VTL) is enabling Oakhambased Hi-Spec Precision Engineering to slash cycle times on tubular and disc-shaped parts â€" in one case, completing a 450 mm diameter disc in just 17 minutes compared with 90 minutes before.
And one tubular workpiece that used to take 20 minutes to machine... [Read More]

19 Doosans in 12 years

19 Doosans in 12 years

Subcontract specialist Bindon Engineering, based in Poole, has invested in a new Doosan Puma 3100Y lathe supplied by Mills CNC.
The machine is used to produce parts that include valves and actuators for the oil and gas sector, and specialist components used in hydraulic crimping... [Read More]

Oxomedic opts for Tornos SwissNano

Oxomedic opts for Tornos SwissNano

Among the first SwissNano machines supplied by Tornos has been integrated into the production line at Oxomedic in Saint Aubin-Sauges, Switzerland.
The company's owner and director Stéphane Liechti, says: "When Tornos showed me the SwissNano, the kinematics immediately won me over â€" they're simple and enable... [Read More]

From propellers to custom motorcycles

From propellers to custom motorcycles

Wiltshire-based Lamb Engineering, which machines everything from variable pitch feathering propellers for the marine industry, through to parts for custom motorcycles, has taken delivery of two turning centres, an XYZ 250TC and an XYZ TC400.
The machines have been installed largely as a result of growing propeller volumes â€" the blades feature a body made... [Read More]

2D adds Fermat

2D adds Fermat

With a range of table and floor-type boring machines offering axis travels up to 28 m in X, 7.3 m in Y and 3.6 m in Z, and a range of milling centres with axis travels up to 28.1 m in X by 600 mm in Y and 1,500 mm in Z, the Czech machine tool builder Fermat has appointed 2D CNC to represent it in the UK market.
Traditionally the home market of... [Read More]

Fibre lasers unveiled

Fibre lasers unveiled

Laser Lines has launched Datalogic's Multiwave series of MOPA fibre laser sources into the UK.
Derived from a combination of know-how and experience at Multiwave Photonics... [Read More]

Studer hosts competition

Studer hosts competition

For its fourth annual competition, grinding machine specialist Studer is looking for thesis and research results that involve the following: innovative machine tool concepts; alternative materials in mechanical engineering; simulation models of... [Read More]

Another opportunity to see XYZ 2op

Another opportunity to see XYZ 2op

With interest aroused by a preview of the XYZ 2op portable VMC at the MACH exhibition in April,
potential customers now have the opportunity to attend the official launch of the machine at eight special events being hosted by XYZ Machine Tools at its Burlescombe and Nuneaton showrooms.
The dates for the events are 18 and 19 August at Burlescombe, Devon and the 3 and 4 September... [Read More]

Hexagon buys Vero Software

Hexagon buys Vero Software

Hexagon AB, headquartered in Sweden, has announced the acquisition of Vero Software, a specialist in CAM software with brands that include Alphacam, Edgecam, Radan, VISI, and WorkNC.
The company has large market coverage with offices in the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, USA, Brazil, Netherlands, China... [Read More]

Mollart expands Resolven facility

Mollart expands Resolven facility

Mollart Engineering has opened a 10,000 ft² fabrication facility at its Resolven factory in Wales.
The area is already laid down for the series production of coolant tanks, swarf handling and filtration systems in support of Mollart's machine tool build at Chessington in Surrey.
The fabrication facility currently employs nine people and sits alongside the main... [Read More]

Holford buys into success

Holford buys into success

The latest addition to the 10-company cluster owned by St Neots-based Holford Engineering is Arnold Wragg of Sheffield, a Citizen sliding head machine shop with a manufacturing expertise imbued in turning since its inception some 50 years ago.
Holford has also announced that it has invested over... [Read More]

Wesco wins GKN award

Wesco wins GKN award

At a breakfast reception at last month's Farnborough International Airshow, GKN Aerospace presented five suppliers with awards recognising the excellence of their work.
However, the GKN Aerospace Premier Supplier Award went to Wesco... [Read More]

CT transforms turbocharger inspection

CT transforms turbocharger inspection

A micro-focus computed tomography (CT) system from Nikon Metrology is being used by BorgWarner Poland to improve R&D into turbochargers for passenger cars, light trucks and commercial vehicles.
The high power (450 kV) X-ray equipment is able to penetrate... [Read More]