Not a day passes without Kontax Engineering, a small precision engineering business based in Maidenhead, Berkshire, receiving pre-paid orders from customers around the world. Although the company continues to provide a subcontract milling and turning service, its step......

It is rare to come across forming of components as part of a CNC cycle in a sliding head lathe. Yet Royston subcontractor First Instruments is using the technique to great advantage in the manufacture of thousands of stainless steel medical instruments. Solutions......

When design consultancy 4D Products was tasked with obtaining three competitive quotes for RIM tooling for a new medical screening product, the company selected Midas Pattern Company based on factors that included price, quality, service, reputation and past......

On the shop floor at Burnley subcontractor, BCW Engineering, an Iemca gantry robot loading system from 1st MTA has been retrofitted to a twin spindle Biglia CNC chucking lathe supplied in 2008 by Whitehouse Machine Tools. As a result, productivity has increased by up......

It would probably be true to say that most manufacturing companies don’t really think about deburring too much. Indeed for many mass produced parts, machining a chamfer around an OD or running a file around a sharp edge is often sufficient. For some components......

Premier, one of the UK’s largest providers of specialist deep hole drilling, gundrilling and honing services, is using its aerospace industry knowledge and experience to keep the world famous Spitfire in the sky. The company has been approached by aircraft......

As a specialist provider of deep hole drilling and gundrilling services, Hone-All Precision is well aware of the challenge posed when angled holes are required to break into one another....

Honing specialist Apperley Honing has joined forces with Cheltenham-based Arthur-Sanders after company director Charles Sanders acquired a 100% shareholding of the used machine tool dealer in November 2010, and to underline the change the company has been renamed......

A major investment by Unicut Precision in single cycle turn/mill technology is providing fully automatic changeover for many of the 46 components in a made-to-order family of parts contract that has created a true around-the-clock unmanned production capability. ......

Canterbury, Kent precision subcontract machinist Inca Geometric has invested over £200,000 in a high specification travelling column vertical machining centre following the winning of two long term contracts for valve bodies and gaming equipment and the extension......