It’s been a pretty hectic year so far for Matsuura Machinery. As well as parent company Matsuura Japan celebrating its 75th anniversary, the Coalville-based UK operation has appointed a new managing director and bagged a number of high profile orders.  ...

From an auspicious start in 1862 as a scientific instrument manufacturer, leading jig boring machine producer Société d’Instuments de Précision (SIP) has been through challenging times over the last few decades. Since its acquisition by......

The fact that Kevin Locke prefers to be out on the shopfloor rather than sitting in an office doesn’t mean that CJ Engineering is lacking either strong leadership or a sound business plan.   It was back in 1998 that, in partnership with younger brother......

Having spent almost 40 years in precision engineering, managing director of Gillingham, Kent-based Phoenix Tooling Ray Guttridge, has seen many changes to his company and its sector of industry. ...

Totnes, Devon-based subcontractor, Vire Engineering, claims it is emerging from the recession relatively unscathed. The company specialises in manufacturing hose and pipe end fittings for brake, fuel, oil and coolant assemblies used in the motorsport and defence......

Seven vertical machining centres from the same supplier, Hurco Europe, have been installed during the past 10 years in the Witney, Oxfordshire works of Acrona Engineering, including most recently a 5-axis VM10U with WinMax control purchased at the beginning of......

To fulfil an exacting contract for the rail industry involving safety related modifications to electric drive motor casings and reduction gearbox housings, Epsom subcontractor, W.E.C.S Precision Limited (WECS), has invested in an Okuma MA600 HB horizontal machining......

The success of the recently launched 102 TM CNC lathe from Schaublin Machine Tools has been marked with a number of orders to established medical manufacturers Clada Medical and Alta Science. Both have acquired new102 TM CNC turning centres for the machining of small......

The technology trend to shrink the size of components into more compact assemblies means the challenge towards miniaturisation is creating new orders of sophistication for the precision turning sector. However, downsizing of machining techniques, and especially......

At Greenway Pepper Precision Engineering, a subcontractor in Newcastle-under-Lyme, aluminium components are reportedly being machined much faster following the installation of a Brother high speed, 4-axis, vertical machining centre from Whitehouse Machine Tools.......