Automated machine tools make easy work of what were once labour intensive and demanding tasks.  Added to which, running for hours unattended and under lights out conditions ensures the maximum return on expensive investments. But what if a malfunction were to......

In a different initiative for 2013, Nick Groom, managing director of Hertford-based precision turned parts subcontractor, Qualiturn Products, has taken the unusual step of advising manufacturers, designers and purchasers on the best way to source their components from......

The Kärcher company, based in Winnenden, Germany is a world leader in the cleaning apparatus sector with its inventiveness, high levels of performance and innovative solutions ensuring it stands apart from the competition. With 8.25 million devices sold every......

Precision manufacturing specialist Armortek is making unusual but effective use of a Puma 2600SY with sub-spindle and Y-axis multi-tasking turning centre supplied by Mills CNC, making military equipment model kits. Solutions reports. As global competition......

Orders for nine sliding headstock mill/turn centres were taken on the Star stand at MACH 2012, the company's largest ever at 400m²....

Selecting an Iemca servo-driven bar magazine from 1st MTA to feed a new lathe rather than accepting the default pneumatic bar feed offered by the machine supplier, has raised productivity and is saving material at Downton subcontractor Mikina Precision Engineering. In......

Leader CNC has been appointed as UK distributor for European built FAT-Haco CNC turning centres. ...

Rochdale is not a town where you would expect to find a leader in flow control for the oil, gas and power generation sectors, but there is good reason why Hanson Springs is located in one of England’s most typical northern towns....

Nick Iacobucci, managing director of family owned DKW Engineering sees investment as a key element in maximising the credibility of his business with customers, so the purchase of a new Miyano turn/mill centre has been crucial to ongoing success....

Steering its way through a recession and coming out the other side fighting has been a challenging journey for Redditch-based Machined Component Systems (MCS) but despite a few knocks on the way, the company find itself in a good position with a healthy order book. As......