Manufacturing jobs created

Manufacturing jobs created

Up to 114 jobs are being created at two companies in Dungannon and Portadown.
Dungannon-based company EDGE Innovate is creating 84 jobs through a £3.4m expansion.
The firm designs and manufactures a range of... [Read More]

EDS install Hardinge VMCs

EDS install Hardinge VMCs

The purchase of three Hardinge/Bridgeport XR760 vertical machining centres is the latest phase in an ongoing programme of machine tool investment by Chelmsford-based EDS Engineering.
Two of the three machines â€" all with tool and component probing and a fourth axis â€" are operating in 'one man, two machine' cells while the third is a stand-alone unit... [Read More]

MBO at Meister

MBO at Meister

An MBO at Daventrybased abrasive products specialist, Meister Abrasives UK, has seen ownership of the company pass from Meister Abrasives International group holding company, Abraxos Holding AG of Switzerland. The formal financial transaction... [Read More]

Wickman hire apprentices

Wickman hire apprentices

Turning machine specialist Wickman has extended its team of engineers by taking on three new apprentices at the company's head office in Coventry.
Kyle Lindley, James Cobbett and Scott Mainwaring... [Read More]

Big week ahead at Southern Manufacturing

Big week ahead at Southern Manufacturing

Southern Manufacturing 2013 will open its doors this week (13-14 February) with the news that exhibitor registrations are reaching an alltime high.
The organisers report that the show is close to reaching a landmark 750 exhibitors when it opens at the FIVE venue in Farnborough.
As a result, the venue has been enlarged once more to accommodate the influx of new exhibitors... [Read More]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is facilitating an auction of fabricating, sheet metal and other equipment... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an auction of machine tools used formerly by Olympus Engineering... [Read More]
MMI is staging an auction with lots that include: a Fanuc Robodrill T21iFs five-axis CNC machining centre; a Fanuc Robodrill T21iFe threeaxis CNC machining centre; a Deckel-Maho DMC65V CNC machining centre; a Mikron HSM800 three-axis CNC machining centre; a Bridgeport XR-760 threeaxis machining centre; and a Daewoo Lynx 200A CNC turning centre. Next auctions are 13 February and 6 March at 13:00 CT.... [Read More]
Edward Symmons is hosting an online auction of machinery used previously by APPH Ltd, Basingstoke, UK... [Read More]

Rise of the robots

Rise of the robots

With 2476 units sold, 2012 was a record year for industrial robots, says the British Automation and Robot Association (BARA), and once again the automotive and automotive components sectors have been the main source. The figure... [Read More]

Free seminar

Free seminar

The Manufacturing Technologies Association and the University of Sheffield AMRC are organising a 'Future Aerospace' manufacturing seminar on 8 February... [Read More]

PMI quickens

PMI quickens

Manufacturing activity in China grew at its fastest pace in two years in January, according to new data from HSBC. The preliminary reading of the Purchasing Managers Index... [Read More]

Kennametal make acquisition

Kennametal make acquisition

USA-based cutting tool specialist, Kennametal has purchased Deloro Stellite of the UK.
The new entity, Kennametal Stellite, brings wear-resistant solutions in alloys-based cast... [Read More]

SF on a roll

SF on a roll

Sheffield Forgemasters has secured a contract worth £3m with Russia's largest steel company, Severstal.
The deal is for a range of work and back-up rolls which will be supplied... [Read More]

Ship shape with Amada

Ship shape with Amada

Amada UK has installed a Japanese-built FO3015 MkII 4kW laser with rotary index tube cutter at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) in Portsmouth, a facility controlled and operated by the Royal Navy in co-operation with BAE Systems.
The machine is processing ship components... [Read More]

Sales record for Mazak in 2012

Sales record for Mazak in 2012

Yamazaki Mazak has recorded the strongest sales performance in its history during 2012 and is increasingly confident about the prospects for the UK machine tool market.
Richard Smith, managing director for the UK and Ireland... [Read More]

Haco promote Q Series virtues

Haco promote Q Series virtues

According to Hanif Esmail of sheet metal working specialist, Haco, "manufacturers must look beyond reducing their production costs of punching a part.
With versatility in the latest punching technologies they can also reduce the price of the final end product."
The Q Series punching machines from Belgiumheadquartered Haco are equipped with options that allow operations such as bending, tapping, forming and rolling, thus rendering... [Read More]