WNT (UK) celebrates MACH 2014 as "one of its best ever MACH attendances"

With over 1,200 registered visitors to its stand during the week long exhibition and a figure of double that actually visiting the stand, the company reports that its technical sales engineers will be very busy in forthcoming weeks. Companies that took advantage of WNT's MACH 2014 deal at the show not only had the opportunity to double their spending power, but also walked away with a free Mitutoyo digital vernier caliper. Says Tony Pennington, managing director, WNT (UK): "Over 420 customers took advantage of the offer during the week, ordering more than £100,000 of tooling at the exhibition." And he added: "Just as important as these orders at the exhibition was the high level of interest in how we can work with customers to provide cost-effective cutting tool and workholding solutions. As a result, our technical sales engineers are going to be very busy in the coming weeks working through all of the enquiries, and requests for visits. What was particularly good to see was the number of applications that customers wanted to discuss there and then on the stand. It all bodes very well for the continued positive outlook for UK manufacturing." Products that won interest at the show included the new HCN 5235 and HCF5240 grades, developed for high performance milling of heat-resistant alloys and titanium of new applications and customers. The new grades are reportedly generating milling cycle time savings of 50% or more, combined with increased tool life. Extended insert life is also a feature of the new HCR1135 inserts for steel turning, with gains of up to 200% where the component has intermittent or difficult to machine surfaces, such as is the case with forgings and cast steel components that have hard skins, or where the cut is heavily interrupted. The biennial MACH exhibition took place from 7-11 April, at Birmingham's NEC