60 jobs at Ginetta

60 jobs at Ginetta

A niche motor manufacturer could create up to 60 new jobs at its West Yorkshire plant after signing a 50-car deal with a Chinese distributor.
Ginetta manufactures about 300 road and race cars annually at its factory... [Read More]

New record for metal removal

New record for metal removal

MAG's new Germanbuilt XTi 'super profiler' has taken aerospace machining to a record altitude, demonstrating a 1500cm³/min metal removal rate in titanium prior to shipment to Aerospace Dynamics International Inc (ADI), Valencia, California.
The machines... [Read More]

TAS tails up in Hyderabad

TAS tails up in Hyderabad

Hyderabad, India is poised to become a hub on the world's defence map when the Tata Advanced Systems (TAS) unit starts rolling out spare parts for the C-130J special operations aircraft.
The Hyderabad... [Read More]

Brothers aid bike parts machining

Brothers aid bike parts machining

Manchester-based Renthal, a producer of accessories for motorcycles and mountain bikes, is changing its rear chainwheel (sprocket) manufacturing process from CNC drilling followed by a sequence of manual operations, to virtually one-hit production on a pair of new Brother machining centres.
The Japanese... [Read More]

XYZ prove true to form

XYZ prove true to form

Within three months of hearing about the latest innovation from XYZ Machine Tools, Colin and David Musgrove, joint owners of True Precision Engineering, had not one but two ProtoTrak Lean Production Machines up and running in TPE's Blaydon-on-Tyne premises... [Read More]

Momentum accelerates for UMEX 2012

Momentum accelerates for UMEX 2012

Scheduled to take place on 2-4 November 2012 at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai, India, this year's edition of the established UMEX exhibition for used machine tools and allied products is set to advance further the show's position as the leading event of its type in... [Read More]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Sweeney Kincaid is staging an online auction of equipment used previously by AG Brown Ltd, Glenrothes, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is hosting an online auction of equipment used formerly by an engine component manufacturer... [Read More]
1st Machinery is conducting an online auction of machinery used previously by GW Atkins, Leicester, UK... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is hosting an online auction of equipment used formerly by Bromford Industries and others... [Read More]
Industrierat is facilitating the sale of two sawmill lines (manufactured 2008) located in Germany... [Read More]

Stimulus package

Stimulus package

Brazil's government has unveiled a new stimulus package to boost the automotive and other manufacturing sectors amid concerns over... [Read More]

$260m order for Bombardier

$260m order for Bombardier

Bombardier Aerospace has confirmed an order for six CRJ900 NextGen regional jets valued at $260m from China Express Airlines.
A second order has also been placed for five CS100 and 10 CS300 jetliners by a different... [Read More]

Esab open new factory

Esab open new factory

Esab Welding and Cutting Products has opened a new manufacturing facility in Union County, South Carolina.
The move to Union County represents... [Read More]

Impsa plan turbine factory

Impsa plan turbine factory

Argentine engineering company Industrias Metalurgicas Pescarmona (Impsa) has confirmed that it will invest US$42.7m in the construction of a new... [Read More]

Mazak saddle up

Mazak saddle up

Employees of Yamazaki Mazak in Worcester saddled up and cycled 200 miles across Offa's Dyke raising £2850 for Acorns Children's... [Read More]

SMTCL to acquire MAG?

SMTCL to acquire MAG?

State-owned Chinese machine tool firm Shenyang Machine Tool Co Ltd (SMTCL) is in negotiations to purchase Goeppingen... [Read More]

Breaking the code at Seco Tools

Breaking the code at Seco Tools

Seco Tools' UK technical centre at Alcester now uses MCS DNC Pro from Planit to transfer all CNC programs to its three machines for cutter trials and testing strategies.
A five-axis Agie Mikron HPM 600U, five-axis Mazak Integrex... [Read More]