Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

RNA is staging an online auction of equipment used previously at Harding Tube Co, Novi, Michigan, USA... [Read More]
MGR Appraisals is holding an online auction of lots owned formerly by Cronation Ltd, Birmingham, UK... [Read More]
Troostwijk is conducting an online auction of metal processing machines based in Zofingen, Switzerland... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is facilitating an online auction of various machine tools... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is hosting an online auction of equipment used previously by Sogefi Filtration, Llantrisant, UK... [Read More]

Konecranes launch CXT

Konecranes launch CXT

The new Konecranes CXT hoist concept is said to combine space efficiency and high reliability with long service life.
It features a compact and robust design equipped with extremely low headroom and small-end approaches.
Standard CXT cranes can be implemented with single-girder or double-girder construction, a fixed single-girder... [Read More]

Clean sweep

Clean sweep

According to Filtermist, the company's Chinese distributor En-Creative has installed 29 compact filtration units on Tsugami and Tornos machines at a new plant in Tianjin, where Zheng Tian will manufacture a range of orthopaedic devices.
Zheng Tian products... [Read More]

Exitex acquire more Mecals

Exitex acquire more Mecals

Dundalk-based Exitex, a manufacturer of fenestration products, has acquired two Mecal Kosmos four-axis CNC machining centres from Addison Saws... [Read More]

Hyundai Wia head west

Hyundai Wia head west

Hyundai Wia celebrated the opening of its first ever West Coast Solution Centre with an official ribbon cutting ceremony in Cypress, California.
The new facility features a showroom with capacity for up to eight CNC machine tools to be on display and under power for live demonstrations... [Read More]

Midas touch for Haas

Midas touch for Haas

Bedford-based moulding specialist, Midas Pattern, has acquired a Haas VF9/50 vertical machining centre. Specified with a heavy duty, robust 50 taper spindle, the machine is well suited to machining both billet... [Read More]

WEC install fibre laser

WEC install fibre laser

A Bystronic fibre laser CNC profiling machine installed at the Darwen factory of WEC Group has resulted in significant cost savings when processing stainless steel sheet in the 1.5 to 4mm thickness range.
Some nests can be... [Read More]

Jier secure Ford stamp of approval

Jier secure Ford stamp of approval

State-owned Jier Machine Tool Group of Shandong Province has won its sixth order from Ford for high speed stamping equipment, breaking the stranglehold that German companies have had for the past 20 years.
The new stamping line... [Read More]

Entry level VMC

Entry level VMC

German Machine tool builder, Spinner, is set to introduce a new, entry level, vertical machining centre called U5-620 Compact.
Available in the UK from Whitehouse Machine Tools, the competitively priced machine is expected to be popular with job shops looking to break into fiveface machining. Unlike most early entry five-axis models on the... [Read More]

Grinding stations for worm gears

Grinding stations for worm gears

Holroyd's new WG Series 'grinding stations' are said to bring ultra-precision to worm gear manufacture.
The stations incorporate the company's 'Smart' probe and selfcorrection CNC technology to support high levels of accuracy, finish and productivity.
Depending on the model selected, users can grind... [Read More]

Designs on expansion

Designs on expansion

Brown & Holmes, a specialist in precision workholding and subcontract machining services, has increased its design team yet again.
As a result of increasing demand, the company has promoted John Nutter... [Read More]

Guyson appoint ETC

Guyson appoint ETC

Industrial finishing equipment manufacturer Guyson International has appointed Kilmarnock-based Engineering Tools & Consumables (ETC) as its distributor for Scotland.
The two companies... [Read More]

Composite parts improve racing car

Composite parts improve racing car

Tailored carbon composite components from ARRK have improved the production of the pioneering BAC Mono racing car, which is made by Briggs Automotive.
ARRK says that a combination of carbon and glass pre-preg material (autoclave cured), has resulted in the client being delighted with the new... [Read More]

ThyssenKrupp plant

ThyssenKrupp plant

ThyssenKrupp has begun building a new production facility for camshafts at its Chemnitz plant. In the coming months, a new production shop fitted with state-of-the-art machinery and equipment is to be built on an area directly adjacent to the existing production buildings.
Construction work is scheduled... [Read More]