Completely sold on the benefits gained from four years of almost continuous successful production with a 7-axis Miyano BNJ-42SY fixed head turn/mill centre, precision aerospace contractor Rodford Engineering trusted its instincts with the installation of another Miyano......

Since its foundation in 1960, Southampton-based subcontract engineering company Williams & Co has been manufacturing precision components with a particular emphasis on gear manufacture. However, a recent investment in two turning centres from Yamazaki Mazak has......

If business was based solely on enthusiasm, drive and an unfaltering will to succeed, Bicester, Oxfordshire-based subcontractor, SRD Engineering would be pretty near the top of the tree. Dave Tudor visited the company and found a family run business totally focused on......

To meet the demand of a growing customer base, Lancashire SME, Merc Engineering has invested £413,000 in new machinery since March 2010. Despite the economic downturn hitting the company’s order book early in 2009, Merc’s intensive marketing......

Norwich-based Titanium Racing is reporting continued and growing orders for its range of specially designed scaled parts for model racing cars. Machined in volume to micron tolerances, the metalcutting capability behind the operation is provided by a recently......

Coventry is the historic home of the British automotive industry, although until recently the general trend has been one of decline. However, technologically savvy companies such as CPP (Manufacturing) are reporting healthy business levels. Already firmly......

Automotive engineering specialist Ricardo UK has recently invested in two new advanced CNC machine tools from GF AgieCharmilles. The two machines, a Mikron HSM 600U ProdMod 5-axis machining centre and a FI 440CC wire EDM machine with CleanCut generator, have been......

At Lancashire subcontractor, Clitheroe Engineering, turnover this year looks set to return to 2008 levels after a 9% fall in 2009 as a consequence of the recession. Helen Meloy, operations director, explains: “We see 2010 as a year of restructuring, with......

Forming part of a joint installation, Cambridge-based subcontractor, Aspec Precision Engineering has recently invested in a Hardinge RS 200MSY multi-tasking turning centre integrated with a Samsys Multi 3000 bar feeder. Both are being used to produce high precision,......

Further increasing the level of automation at its West Midlands factory, precision engineering subcontractor, GB Precision, has invested in a second Workpal robot from System 3R. The company’s first Workpal, installed in 2008 to feed an Agie Progress V2 wire......