Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

1st Machinery is staging an online auction of machinery from various UK sites... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is holding an online auction of various CNC machines used in the aerospace industry... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is facilitating an online auction of machines located in Birmingham, UK... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online auction of CNC machines used previously by Conoflow Ltd, Poole, UK... [Read More]
Apex is conducting an online auction of machinery used formerly by Tilbury Power Station, Essex and others... [Read More]

Deal struck for Wasino

Deal struck for Wasino

DMG Mori has announced that the company intends to take over the lathe division (Wasino) of Amada Machine Tools on 1 April 2015. The lathe division of Amada started... [Read More]

Successful open houses

Successful open houses

As the season for open house events draws to a close, Floyd Automatic Tooling is delighted with the feedback its new products received at the... [Read More]

Metalex opens this week

Metalex opens this week

Metalex 2014, which takes place later this week on 19-22 November in Bangkok, Thailand, is expecting over 70,000 visitors through its doors over the four days of the show. The exhibition... [Read More]

RK partners Eurospark

RK partners Eurospark

RK International Machine Tools and Eurospark have entered into a partnership that will see sales of Eurospark Joemars wire and die sink EDM machines split geographically between the two companies. RK International is concentrating on the southern half of the UK, while Eurospark, the UK importer of Eurospark Joemars EDM machines, will be responsible for the remainder.
The partnership cements a long-standing relationship between the two businesses... [Read More]

Dugard unveils LB machining centres

Dugard unveils LB machining centres

Dugard first introduced its heavy duty VMCs in 2011, since when the success of the machines has now prompted the company to expand the series to include the LB range of double column machining centres.
Designed by Dugard's own senior design team, all LB models... [Read More]

Hurco set to open doors

Hurco set to open doors

"New Opportunities" is the theme for the forthcoming Hurco open house, taking place on 9-11 December at the company's UK headquarters in High Wycombe. Several new machines are being brought in to the demonstration area specifically for the event. The result will be a display of eight machines representing the best-selling models within Hurco's... [Read More]

Many reasons to visit WNT

Many reasons to visit WNT

The recently announced open house at WNT (UK)'s technical centre in Sheffield, being held in conjunction with XYZ Machine Tools, provides several reasons to attend, not least of which is the opportunity to see the latest productivity boosting cutting tools in action.
The event takes place on 3-4 December, with the doors... [Read More]

Machine tool demand up 30%

Machine tool demand up 30%

Orders for machine tools in India are about 30% higher now than during the same period in 2013 â€" that's according to L Krishnan, president of the Indian Machine... [Read More]

Beyond Drive inserts suit SS and CI

Beyond Drive inserts suit SS and CI

New Beyond Drive inserts from Kennametal feature a bronze TiOCN top coating that increases wear resistance and functions as a wear indicator, says the company.
Designed for cast irons, steels and stainless steels that make up many critical components over a variety of industries, Kennametal's Beyond Drive inserts feature a proprietary post-coat surface... [Read More]

NTK introduces DS toolholders and sleeves

NTK introduces DS toolholders and sleeves

To optimise all tooling positions and maximise the potential of sliding head turning centres, NTK Cutting Tools has now developed its new DS line of toolholders and sleeves. The key feature of this new innovation is its ability to enable the end user to use turning tools in the vacant drilling sleeves, thereby increasing the number of turning tool positions... [Read More]

CNF opts for ITC tools

CNF opts for ITC tools

When Clive Fearnley borrowed £200 in 1967 from a family member to buy his first lathe, he couldn't have envisaged that his start-up company would be spending over £1.5m in equipment some 45 years later. The impressive... [Read More]

Quickgrind halves cost of tooling

Quickgrind halves cost of tooling

Quickgrind, a carbide cutting tool manufacturer, says that many of its customers have slashed their tooling costs by over 50%, without compromising on quality, simply by switching to the company's specialist remanufacturing service.
Quickgrind says it uses a 'total engineering approach' to ensure the company matches its customers' exact requirements... [Read More]

Five-axis cutters

Five-axis cutters

Optimised milling cycles, in particular for five-axis type applications, are able to benefit from the MSX multi-function, high shear milling cutter... [Read More]