Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Solutions for Industry has a liquidation sale in progress involving several five-axis CNC turbine blade machining centres... [Read More]
New England is staging an online auction of machinery used previously by Cameron Machine Tools, East Lothian, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is hosting an online auction of various machines from various UK sites... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is facilitating an online auction of CNC machinery used previously by James Thomas Engineering and others... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is conducting an online auction of equipment used formerly by DMR, Rostock, Germany... [Read More]

Gall takes Integrex

Gall takes Integrex

Aberdeenshire-based Gall Engineering has purchased a Mazak Integrex e-500H II multi-tasking machine tool to help it serve the oil and gas industry. The machine has a large envelope suited for the machining of shafts up to 3000 mm in length... [Read More]

5-axis Trumpf at PLP

5-axis Trumpf at PLP

Rugby-based Precision Laser Processing (PLP) has installed its second five-axis TruLaser Cell from Trumpf. The TruLaser Cell 7040 adds to an existing 7020 model (installed in 2011) and has been introduced to double five-axis capacity and expand capability at this progressive manufacturing business... [Read More]

PP keeps a high profile

PP keeps a high profile

Batley-based PP Profiles (West Yorkshire) Ltd, a professional subcontract steel profiling company, has acquired an RUR3500P plasma cutting machine from Kerf Developments. Taking the new RUR3500P in a part... [Read More]

Probing reduces scrap and saves time

Probing reduces scrap and saves time

The advanced manufacturing division of Intoco (Independent Tool Consultants Ltd) a Gloucestershirebased engineering company, is a prime example of a subcontract manufacturer taking advantage of the touch probe technologies available from Renishaw. Recently, Intoco has added further Mazak multi-tasking machines... [Read More]

MMP replace CO2 with fibre laser cutting

MMP replace CO2 with fibre laser cutting

Leicestershire sheet metal subcontractor, Midland Metal Products (MMP), bought a Bystronic CO2 laser profiler in 2005 to replace three smaller laser cutters. In May this year, the firm part-exchanged the CO2 machine for a fibre laser version of identical capacity from the same supplier. The new machine is twice... [Read More]

Helander cuts lead-times

Helander cuts lead-times

Helander Precision Engineering of Tewkesbury, a provider of machined components for the oil and gas, nuclear, aerospace and defence sectors, has acquired a Robbi Omicron 3000GE T5 semi-automatic external grinder from RK International Machine Tools. “We were reassured by the fact that RK were happy for us to talk directly... [Read More]

TTI opts for MecWash Duo

TTI opts for MecWash Duo

A subcontract heat treatment specialist for the motorsport industry, TTI Group, has installed a MecWash Duo at its main Luton production site as part of a strategic plan to increase capacity and facilitate growth. The aqueous component cleaning system was commissioned to replace a series of dunk tank... [Read More]

CAM invests in Doosan sliding head lathe

CAM invests in Doosan sliding head lathe

Clevedon-based Cam Machine Components has invested in a Doosan Puma ST32G sliding head sub-spindle lathe for machining small, high precision parts. Acquired from Mills CNC, the lathe was supplied with an integrated LNS Sprint 552 barfeed that can accommodate bars up to 4 m in length, and between 5-52 mm in diameter.
Since being installed, the Puma ST 32G has... [Read More]

Wire EDM offers healthy prognosis

Wire EDM offers healthy prognosis

Galway Tool & Mould is using a new Sodick AG600L LP2WH Premium wire EDM to help it go from strengthtostrength as a subcontract supplier of high quality injection moulds and micro-moulds, primarily to the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors.
Installed by Sodi-Tech EDM, the machine not only replaced an increasingly unreliable older model (not Sodick), but is also offering greater levels of accuracy, surface finish and ease-of-use, as... [Read More]

75-up for B&H

75-up for B&H

Brown & Holmes is celebrating 75 years as a designer and manufacturer of workholding solutions. During its three quarters of a century of trading, the firm has survived two recessions, a world war and a management buyout.
The company was originally... [Read More]

Citizen celebrates 40th

Citizen celebrates 40th

To celebrate 40 years of combined British sales of Citizen CNC sliding head and Miyano fixed head turning centres, Citizen Machinery UK has structured a 'super special' event deal covering any current machines ordered during... [Read More]

AP&T partners DTG

AP&T partners DTG

AP&T is intensifying its collaboration with Diversified Tooling Group (DTG), which is one of the largest manufacturers of press tools in the US. The joint goal is to reinforce the companies’ expertise in tools and their customer offerings in press hardening on the North American market... [Read More]

ISS/PEM announce open house

ISS/PEM announce open house

ISS (Inserter Sales & Service) together with PEM Europe (the manufacturer of Pemserter fastener installation equipment) will be holding an open house in the week commencing 6 October at the ISS facility in Doncaster. On display will be the ISS EasySerter 3 ton hand press and the Pemserter Series 4 press with automatic feed (pictured). Also, visitors will be able to catch up with the latest PEM self-clinching... [Read More]

CMT machines at SPSP

CMT machines at SPSP

Chester Machine Tools has recently completed an installation at the new SPSP al-Khafji training college on the border of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. It is the second such college to be supplied successfully by the company... [Read More]

ZF strikes deal to acquire TRW

ZF strikes deal to acquire TRW

German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen has reached a deal to buy US-based TRW Automotive Holdings Corp for $13.5bn including debt, creating a global automotive powerhouse with combined annual sales of more than $40bn.
The transaction is... [Read More]

Ercolina exclusivity in UK

Ercolina exclusivity in UK

As part of an ever more efficient and professional international presence, CML International SpA has appointed Pipe and Tube Machines Ltd as the exclusive importer of Ercolina machines in England, Wales and Scotland.
For many years Pipe and Tube Machines has been... [Read More]

Sichuan-UK fair in London

Sichuan-UK fair in London

The Sichuan-UK machinery and economic trade fair will take place in London on 3 October (09.30-12.00) at the China-Britain Business Council (SW1E 5BH). The event is being organised on behalf of the Sichuan International Chamber of Commerce for the Machinery Industry. At the event, the Sichuan Chamber... [Read More]

Showtime in the north for manufacturers

Showtime in the north for manufacturers

Northern Manufacturing 2014, which will take place on 1-2 October at Event City in Manchester, is the largest exhibition dedicated to the needs of manufacturing industries in the north of England. With nearly 300 exhibitors serving sectors such as automotive, aerospace, defence, industrial... [Read More]