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]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online auction of equipment used previously by Manston International Airport, Ramsgate, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is holding an online auction
of machinery used previously by Newcut Precision
Engineering (Ramsey) Ltd... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is conducting an online auction of machinery located in Gosselies, Belgium... [Read More]
1st Machinery is facilitating an online auction of equipment used formerly by MGS Precision, Staffordshire, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is staging an online auction of a five-axis Matsuura machining centre no longer required by a Milton Keynes-based precision engineering company due to new investment... [Read More]

Hemo five-axis vice

Hemo five-axis vice

The new Centron 125 clamping vice from Swiss workholding specialist Hemo is now available in the UK from Micron Workholding.
The modular clamping system offers clamping forces of up to 80 kN with a clamping width up to 1000 mm.
The Centron 125 incorporates a modular clamping jaw system and base plate, solid system supports... [Read More]

Carbide inserts for MC100

Carbide inserts for MC100

Roemheld says that carbide inserts have been recently introduced to its MC100 vice range of vices and jaws to enable end users to hold concentric components on just 3 mm of workpiece material.
The fixed jaw MC100 five-axis vice can also... [Read More]

Odd shapes gripped

Odd shapes gripped

OML's VariClamp modular clamping system uses a floating mechanism of fixed and moveable jaws, and a wide variety of gripper forms to provide custom clamping of irregular-shaped workpieces, including round, curved, elliptical, rectangular, stepped and slanted parts. Manufactured... [Read More]

Leader releases quick-change jaws

Leader releases quick-change jaws

The patented CARVEsmart quickchange vice jaw system, made in the US by Bellatex, is now available in the UK exclusively from Leader Chuck Systems.
Providing a number of benefits, the jaw system has been developed to simplify set-ups for production and toolroom vices.
It uses a dovetail interface, proven in numerous industrial... [Read More]