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06/09/2010
| Automotive subcontractor increases capabilities with 11 new machine tools
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| RT Quaife Engineering, a specialist automotive subcontractor, has recently invested in 11 new Doosan CNC machine tools supplied by Mills CNC. The machines were installed at the company's two facilities in Sevenoaks and Gillingham between March and May 2010, and are being used to manufacture a divers ... Read more
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03/09/2010
| Star to launch three new turning centres
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| Three new multi-axis mill-turn centres from Star Micronics will make their world premieres at the AMB show this year. Until now a manufacturer of exclusively sliding-head lathes, the company will introduce its first fixed-headstock bar automatic, the SG-42.
Intended for the manufacture of complex ... Read more
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02/09/2010
| XYZ Machine Tools Open Days
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| XYZ Machine Tools has announced some dates for Open Days at its showrooms around the UK. Visitors will see machine tools under power highlighting XYZ's extensive range of turret/bed mills, lathes, turning centres and vertical machining centres.
The location and dates for the Open Days are: Nuneat ... Read more
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26/08/2010
| Aerospace subcontractor invests in Mori Seiki mill-turn lathe
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| SL Engineering has purchased an additional Mori Seiki NL2000 SY mill-turn lathe, bringing its tally of Mori Seiki machines to five. Based in Aslackby, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, SL Engineering is a subcontractor providing a full in-house solution specialising in the manufacture of rigid tube assem ... Read more
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16/08/2010
| Automated manufacturing for artillery shells from Mills CNC
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| The commissioning of a fully automated manufacturing facility by Mills CNC, for the machining of 105 mm and 155 mm artillery shells, has made an early impact on the aims of the MASS contractual partnership between BAE Systems and the UK MoD. MASS (Munitions Acquisition – the Supply Solution) aims to ... Read more
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11/08/2010
| Victor for the third time at Qualitek
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| Impressed by the performance of two previously purchased Vturn lathes and the levels of service provided by Victor Europe, subcontractor Qualitek latest acquisition is a Victor Vturn 36. The Vturn 36 has a bed length centre distance of 50 in, a maximum cutting diameter of 20.9 in, and a swing over b ... Read more
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09/08/2010
| Programming XYZ as easy as ABC for subcontractor CJ Engineering
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| Norfolk-based subcontractor CJ Engineering has invested in a XYZ ProTURN SLX 425 CNC/manual lathe with 1.25 m between centres. Installed in May 2010, the 7.5 kW, 25-2,500 rpm gap bed lathe has a 480 mm swing over bed and 700 mm swing in gap, with constant surface speed (CSS) as standard. The machin ... Read more
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03/08/2010
| 600 Group announces improving position and expansion plans
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| 600 Group has announced a second half return to profit, an increase in manufacturing footprint supported by a £2.5 million shareholder loan, a distancing from Far East suppliers, and a focus on developing its brands. These points emerged from the company's preliminary results issued today (3 August ... Read more
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27/07/2010
| Unicut secures subcontract business at MACH
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| As a result of Unicut Precision's presence in the BTMA Village at MACH 2010, it secured an export order, with further contracts under negotiation, for producing high tolerance hydraulic components for an Indian company. Unicut was at MACH promoting its single cycle machining, inspection and measurem ... Read more
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02/07/2010
| Hurco machines purchased by subcontractors at MACH
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| On the first day of MACH, subcontractor CLB Precision Engineers ordered a VM30 vertical machining centre, the first of 11 machines Hurco sold during the MACH show. Halifax-based CLB Precision Engineers specialises in work for the scientific and medical sectors, in batches of typically 50-off, but ha ... Read more
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