Growth continues, says HSBC

Growth continues, says HSBC

India's factory activity showed its sharpest rise in six months in December, helped by improved demand and growth in new orders, according to a survey published last week.
The HSBC India Manufacturing... [Read More]

Automotive revs up

Automotive revs up

The New Year has heralded a host of automotive sector announcements in India.
For example, auto major Ford says it will invest US$142m at its Chennai plant to produce a new compact sports utility vehicle named EcoSport (pictured).
The investment will be spent on equipment required... [Read More]

Mould making made easy at Serdar

Mould making made easy at Serdar

"WorkNC from Sescoi takes the guess work out of CNC programming and is the closest thing to 'single button' CAM," says Ceyhun Çinar, CAM engineer for Serdar Plastik in Turkey. "The system is automatic, we just have to... [Read More]

Unicut opt for Tornos

Unicut opt for Tornos

Welwyn Garden Citybased Unicut Precision has acquired two Swiss-built Tornos Gamma 20/6 turning centres to service its influx of new business and resolve potential capacity issues.
The company had previously... [Read More]

Indian machine tool sector remains upbeat

Indian machine tool sector remains upbeat

The fledgling Indian machine tool industry remains upbeat on growth as the economic slowdown has no bearing on orders from the manufacturing sector, an industry representative said last week.
"We have not seen... [Read More]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Fairfield Industries is conducting an online auction of equipment no longer required by Esdales UK Ltd, West Yorkshire, UK... [Read More]
Troostwijk Auctions is staging an online auction of the office and workshop inventory of Hancar BV, Botlek-Rotterdam, Netherlands... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is facilitating an online auction of equipment used previously by Elsy & Gibbons, South Shields, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery Auctions is staging an online auction of two CNC machines... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is hosting an online auction of a 2061 Richards horizontal borer used previously by Weir Minerals, Rugby, UK... [Read More]

Mapal win 75k order

Mapal win 75k order

Cutting tool specialist Mapal is now supplying all of the critical tools for the latest engine line retooling project at Triumph Motorcycles in Hinckley.
The order, worth over £75,000, covers more than 30 different styles of custom developed tool, including replaceable... [Read More]

50 jobs at Cobra

50 jobs at Cobra

Nearly 50 jobs will be created when a car components company opens a new factory in Wrexham as... [Read More]

Sany head for Poland

Sany head for Poland

Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd, a Chinese engineering machinery maker, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency... [Read More]

Get set for FIMAQH

Get set for FIMAQH

The bi-annual FIMAQH international machine tool exhibition 2012 will be held at Centro Costa Salguero, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 29 May to 2 June 2012.
The event, held by Cámara Argentina... [Read More]

Burr Oak agency

Burr Oak agency

Burr Oak Tool Inc of Michigan, USA has added local sales representation in Brazil. Forming Tubing do Brasil Ltda, located near São Paulo, and Burr... [Read More]

Marks of progress

Marks of progress

Macclesfield-based Sabbath Bicycles, which manufactures titanium racing bikes, recently turned to ES Technology for a way to permanently mark... [Read More]

Digging for sales in Brazil

Digging for sales in Brazil

Construction vehicle specialist, Deere & Co is planning to invest $124m to build two new factories in Brazil to meet the increasing demand in South America.
One factory will be fully owned... [Read More]

Software drives 29 machines

Software drives 29 machines

HySpeed (CNC) of Southbourne, West Sussex is reporting the use of Alphacam CNC software as both its CAD system and for creating NC toolpath code to drive 29... [Read More]