Haco launch latest Q5

Haco launch latest Q5

Haco has introduced the latest version of its Q5 punching, nibbling, louvering, rolling and bending turret press.
Available in 22 or 30 ton versions, the machine comes with an automatic toolchanger to punch through steel up to 6.5mm thick at rates of up to 1200 hits per minute.
The external tool turret changes the tools into the punching head automatically, thus avoiding... [Read More]

Used machines at Metaltech 2013

Used machines at Metaltech 2013

At the 19th edition of Metaltech on 21-24 May 2013 (taking place at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), visitors will get a chance to witness the show’s first ever 'Used Machinery... [Read More]

Kitagawa launch new vice

Kitagawa launch new vice

Secure, accurate clamping with 40kN of torque is offered by the new Japanese-manufactured VAX125 vice from Kitagawa.
Equally suitable for use on five- or three-axis machining centres, the vice is available in the UK through... [Read More]

Faro support Caterham F1

Faro support Caterham F1

Formula One's Caterham F1 Team, based in Oxfordshire, UK is using a US-manufactured Faro ScanEdge portable CMM to optimise in-house quality control.
One of its principal uses will be to monitor the quality of machined patterns that are used as templates for making moulds from which carbon fibre components for the team's cars are produced.
The decision was taken recently to manufacture patterns... [Read More]

55 machine order for Agie Charmilles

55 machine order for Agie Charmilles

GF AgieCharmilles, a division of Swiss group Georg Fischer, has received a major order for 55 machines from a well-known Chinese manufacturer of components for electronic devices.
The new order includes both EDM as well as... [Read More]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment no longer required by a retained client... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is hosting its MMX #136 online auction of machine tools and sheet metal machinery located in the UK and Spain... [Read More]
New England is facilitating an online auction of machinery and equipment from BMR Presswork, Derbyshire, UK... [Read More]
1st Machinery is staging an online auction of machines from various UK sites... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]

Workers required

Workers required

Up to 100 new jobs could created at a Coventry engineering firm after it secured a £1.4m funding package.
Penso said the investment from HSBC would allow it to purchase its Woodhams Road site and install new equipment... [Read More]

NAS grants

NAS grants

Companies looking to offer apprenticeships in England have been given a boost as the National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) announces moves to help even more employers recruit an apprentice.
The Government has confirmed an extension of the apprenticeship... [Read More]

More loans

More loans

Just-released figures for November 2012 from the Finance & Leasing Association show a large increase in finance for plant and machinery.
Finance leasing and hire purchase remain... [Read More]

Agency deal

Agency deal

600 UK has announced new arrangements with Bendertechniek BV to distribute its range of Colchester lathes in the Netherlands and Belgium (and Harrison lathes... [Read More]

Sescoi expand

Sescoi expand

Booming business in India, which was up 30% in 2011 and continued to increase in 2012, has made it essential for CADCAM software specialist Sescoi to move offices in Pune, west India, to provide room for more... [Read More]

New five-axis machine

New five-axis machine

GF AgieCharmilles has launched a five-axis (3+2 axis) machine tool range into the market.
Although the new Swissbuilt HEM 500U is a universal machining centre, it is being aimed at manufacturers, specifically subcontractors, machining 1-offs and small batch precision parts who need a versatile... [Read More]

£1m heat treatment plant

£1m heat treatment plant

Construction work is now underway on Keighley Laboratories' new heat treatment processes building, at its West Yorkshire headquarters.
Representing a total capital investment in excess of £1m, the purpose-built unit will house furnaces, controls and ancillary... [Read More]

Food for thought inspires Ishida

Food for thought inspires Ishida

At the UK subsidiary of the Japanese Ishida group (a major food packaging machinery manufacturer) in Poole, four US-built Hurco VMCs are being used to produce components for a new range of semi-automatic tray sealers.
Despite the recession... [Read More]