Mollart win £4.8m contract

Mollart win £4.8m contract

Mollart Engineering has secured a major long term export contract worth over £4.8m to supply high specification twin-spindle gun-drills.
The machines will be supplied over a two-year period to a European fuel injection company and its subsuppliers around the... [Read More]

New tooling hits the UK

New tooling hits the UK

A new company in the cutting tool supply world, Werkztool, is set to hit UK shores.
The company is currently setting up its UK wide... [Read More]

Ward Hi-Tech at AM 2013

Ward Hi-Tech at AM 2013

CNC machine tool distributor Ward Hi-Tech is exhibiting for the first time at the Advanced Manufacturing show (stand AM80), which is co-located with the Subcon 2013... [Read More]

Ondrives shift into top gear

Ondrives shift into top gear

Chesterfield, UK-based Ondrives, a specialist in the manufacture of precision gears and gearboxes, will now produce precision ground gears in-house following the acquisition of a German-built Niles ZE400 gear profile grinding supplied by HK Technologies.
“We already had gear hobbing... [Read More]

Heidenhain sponsor students

Heidenhain sponsor students

Heidenhain GB has awarded a series of scholarships to enable students to attend the recent Lamdamap laser metrology, machine tool, co-ordinate measuring machine and robotic performance conference at the Kavli Royal Society International... [Read More]

£200k investment at Metalweb

£200k investment at Metalweb

Birmingham-based Metalweb, a stockist of specialist metals including aluminium alloys and stainless steels, has made a major commitment to its future by investing over £200,000... [Read More]

Vargus extend Mini-V

Vargus extend Mini-V

The Vargus Groovex Mini-V range of indexable carbide inserts for mini grooving, boring and threading applications has been extended to include larger bore work with minimum bores from 14 to 16mm.
Furthermore... [Read More]

A vice of some virtue

A vice of some virtue

Visitors to Autogrip Machinery's stand at the recent TIMTOS exhibition in Taiwan were able to see first-hand the largest three-jaw power chuck the company has ever produced (1600 mm diameter).
Autogrip is represented exclusively in the UK and Ireland... [Read More]

Free training at Seco

Free training at Seco

Seco Tools is hosting free training courses throughout 2013 at its North American headquarters in Troy, Michigan as part of the Seco Technical Education Program (STEP).
Courses combine classroom discussion with handson training.
The four-hour... [Read More]

Encouraging growth figures

Encouraging growth figures

The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on manufacturing for the first quarter show that the capital goods sector was 1.9% ahead of the level it reached at the end of the first quarter in 2012.
The output figures confirm the trend identified in the recent MTA Business Survey, which showed Britain's engineering-based manufacturing companies... [Read More]

Horn is first port of call

Horn is first port of call

Arbroath-based Weatherford International has switched to Horn Cutting Tools to optimise the machining of port details on oil well drilling equipment.
The port details were previously machined using a multiple insert form tool followed by a single point thread milling tool.
Cutting trials by... [Read More]

Zimmermann unveil FZ33

Zimmermann unveil FZ33

Economical production of wind turbine rotor blades, aircraft structurals, automotive models and patterns, boat structures, and large moulds and tools are some of the applications for which the new Germanbuilt Zimmermann FZ33 5-axis machining centre is suitable.
Components can be accommodated within a working volume from 3 to 40m in... [Read More]

Robotmounted CMM 3D scanners

Robotmounted CMM 3D scanners

Creaform, a specialist in portable 3D measurement solutions and 3D engineering services, has launched the MetraScan-R series of robotmounted optical CMM 3D scanners for automated inspection on and off the production line.
The scanners are offered in two versions... [Read More]

Gulf rail project alerts global supply chain

Gulf rail project alerts global supply chain

The GCC railway network, with a total length of 2117 km, will start construction by 2014 and be operational by 2017/2018, says Dr Ramiz Al Assar, senior adviser to the GCC (Gulf Co-operation Council) Secretariat General and senior transport specialist at the... [Read More]