Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

BVA Auctions is holding an online auction of a Ficep sawing and drilling line located in Alphen, Netherlands... [Read More]
Maynards is staging an online auction of equipment used previously at the exhaust manufacturing plant of GM Opel,
Bochum, Germany... [Read More]
Apex Auctions is hosting an online auction of large capacity HMCs used previously by Hyde Aero Products, Lancashire, UK... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is conducting a tender sale by order of BAE Systems, Salmesbury, UK... [Read More]
Eddisons is facilitating a private treaty sale of modern CNC steel fabrication plant located in Bradford, UK... [Read More]

Komet polish with Vollmer

Komet polish with Vollmer

As a manufacturer of precision cutting tools, the Komet Group GmbH has installed a Vollmer QXD 200 at its Stuttgart manufacturing plant to automatically polish PCD blades used by customers to cut abrasive composites.
“Regardless of whether it's in planes, wind farms or cars, in the future these... [Read More]

First towers completed

First towers completed

The first wind turbine towers produced at a new facility in Chepstow have been loaded for transportation to wind farms in Yorkshire.
Mabey Bridge, which is the only UK manufacturer of... [Read More]

New president at Sandvik

New president at Sandvik

Klas Forsström is now global president of cutting tool manufacturer Sandvik Coromant.
Mr Forsström has been with the Sandvik Group for about 17 years, mostly at Sandvik Coromant.
His work... [Read More]

India approves manufacturing strategy

India approves manufacturing strategy

India's cabinet has approved a major new policy to develop national manufacturing.
The policy aims to create 100 million jobs in the next 10 years and allows for a series of special new zones to support manufacturing... [Read More]

F1 team renew Mazak contract

F1 team renew Mazak contract

Surrey, UK-based Formula One team, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, has extended its contract with Japanese machine tool builder, Yamazaki Mazak, which sees it remain the team's sole official supplier of CNC machine tools.
Mazak has supplied the team since 1999 and now has a... [Read More]

Tube bending made easy

Tube bending made easy

Based in Ballymoney, County Antrim, subcontract sheet metal component manufacturer, SJ McAuley Engineering, has installed an Italian built... [Read More]

Investment in new lathe at Bartlett

Investment in new lathe at Bartlett

Dyfed-based subcontractor, Bartlett Engineering Co, has acquired an XYZ ProTurn SLX 425 CNC/manual gap bed lathe with 1250mm between centres.
It joins a ProTurn SLX 555 CNC/manual gap bed lathe at the Sageston site, along with a ProtoTrak SMX 3500 CNC/manual bed mill that has full CADCAM/DXF... [Read More]

Greenfield order punch and forming cells

Greenfield order punch and forming cells

Greenfield Engineering of Devon, UK has placed an order worth around £2.2m for two fully automated systems from Japan's Amada. The move is seen as the first step to developing into "Europe's most automated production facility".
Replacing a nine-year-old punch/shearing cell... [Read More]

USETEC, UMEX and MTI co-operate from 2012

USETEC, UMEX and MTI co-operate from 2012

In 2012, USETEC will take a further step in its internationalisation when the world's largest trade fair for used technology, which takes place annually in Cologne, begins its co-operation with UMEX, the biggest and most successful trade fair for used machinery on the Indian subcontinent.
UMEX organisers, Conventions... [Read More]

Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

Cottrill & Co is staging an online auction of equipment no longer required by Holme Valley Fabrication & Engineering... [Read More]
Hilco Industrial is hosting an online auction of a complete pipe manufacturing facility (Lindo Industripark, Odense, Denmark)... [Read More]
1st Machinery Auctions is facilitating an online auction of assets used previously by a leading aerospace company based in the Midlands, UK... [Read More]
BVA Auctions is holding an online auction of a Ficep sawing and drilling line located in Alphen, Netherlands... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is conducting a tender sale by order of BAE Systems, Salmesbury, UK... [Read More]

Changes at Mapal

Changes at Mapal

John Claypole will be stepping down from his role of managing director at tooling specialist Mapal UK at the end of the year, remaining as a director.
Wayne Whitehouse will be taking on the role of general manager at the company commencing... [Read More]

Fanuc merge operations

Fanuc merge operations

All former Fanuc operations active on a Europe-wide scale are being merged into the new Fanuc Luxembourg Corporation (FLC), headquartered in Echternach, Luxembourg, with... [Read More]

Record results at Trumpf

Record results at Trumpf

German sheet metalworking machinery specialist, Trumpf, has posted the largest revenue rise in its entire history.
During the past fiscal year (ending 30 June) the company saw... [Read More]