Parts for instrumentation used in space observation, both terrestrial and satellite-based, are machined to tight tolerances on two Hurco vertical machining centres (VMCs) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), near Didcot....

In 2005, Midland Aerospace installed its first 5-axis machining centre from DMG, a DMU 70 eVo. The Sutton-in-Ashfield subcontractor now operates six machines from the same supplier for fully interpolative, 5-axis prismatic metalcutting, as well as a CNC lathe. The......

As far back as 1998, Smithstown Light Engineering in Shannon, Co Clare was in the vanguard of high speed metalcutting, having installed the 12th machining centre ever built by the German firm, Roeders. The 3-axis, vertical spindle machine has been in continual......

Coventry-based subcontractor, Cam-Tech Engineering, has increased turnover every year for the past decade. Since 2008, that growth has accelerated due to the installation of three 5-axis machining centres from DMG. They are used extensively to produce brake and clutch......

In less than a year of orchestrating the management buyout of G&H Precision Engineering based in Southampton, managing director, Steve Hill, has already driven the business growth by more than a third, invested in 5-axis simultaneous machining technology and also......

When BAW Precision Engineering emerged from the global downturn under new ownership in July 2010, the primary aim for the new directors of the Swansea Valley company was to build the order book and re-establish the subcontractors’ reputation in the marketplace.......

Getting into 5-axis machining does not mean you have to go out and find a completely new customer base, as one North East precision subcontractor is proving....

The catalyst behind Shirley-based Midland Precision Engineering’s investment in a Mikron HSM 600U ProdMod 5-axis machining centre from AgieCharmilles was the company’s successful tender to manufacture high precision, complex fuel system parts for a new and......

Founded in 1987 as a mouldmaker and subcontract machinist specialising in wire and spark erosion and manual milling, Leighton Buzzard-based RST Engineering, installed a Hurco Hawk 30 CNC mill in 1998 to speed electrode production and other prismatic machining jobs....

By changing to 5-axis machining technology, Glasgow-based Waukesha Bearings – believed to be the world’s largest supplier of fluid film bearings and a developer of advanced active magnetic bearing systems – has been able to slash lead times from 16......