Xisis. Wheatley, Oxon, is the UK's exclusive supplier of 'directMILL', claimed to be the first CAM solution to be compatible with all major CAD formats, while it is also said to boast the world's easiest to use, advanced 4 and 5-axis machining features.
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Delcam has appointed CNC Robotics as its first robot integrator in the UK, with the new partnership confirming its first sale, to Honeyring Ltd, during the MACH 2012 show.
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Specialist engineering and manufacturing company Formaplex has opened a new 15,000 ft2 factory, boosting production space 30%, while an investment of £750,000 has also been made in two large CMS Aries 4826 5-axis-machines for the new facility .
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LVD Company nv is celebrating its 60th anniversary as an innovator in the design and manufacture of sheet metalworking equipment.
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Mussett Engineering, Loddon, Norfolk received orders worth more than £1million during April, making recent weeks some of the busiest the company has known.
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Yamazaki Mazak reports sales of more than £3 million for the MACH 2012 exhibition held in April.
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Whitehouse Machine Tools has been appointed sole UK sales and service agent for Taiwan's Averex Automation, Taichung and its Akari HS-450i horizontal machining centre.
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Cutwel has launched its 2012 cutting tools catalogue, which, at 1,000 pages, is the company's largest catalogue to date.
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Mills CNC, exclusive distributor of Doosan machines in the UK and Ireland, sold machines worth more than £1.6 million and welcomed over 1,400 visitors at the recent MACH 2012 exhibition.
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Scarborough-based tube bending machine builder Unison is looking forward to a bumper year, with the company tripling the size of its order book and the rate it is building machines in the first quarter of the year, compared to 2011.
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Ross Matthews has joined the Haas Automation sales team and is now responsible for the East Midlands.
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At the recent MACH exhibition, president of machine tool company Mori Seiki Co, Dr Masahiko Mori, welcomed Liam Eley, managing director of Premier Mould Services, Billingham, as the first UK company to order a MillTap 700.
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Orders for nine sliding-head mill-turn centres were taken on the Star Micronics GB stand, the company's largest ever at 400 sq m, at MACH 2012. Total order value was £1.2 million, with the machines spanning the capacity range from 16 through 20 to 32 mm.
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French CADCAM and ERP software firms Alma and Missler Software (UK, MCL CADCAM) are combining their activities, following a minority investment by Alma in the capital of FMS, Missler Software's holding company, which, says the company "should, in time, lead to the merger of the two companies, their products and their distribution networks".
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Metrology, rapid manufacturing and medical technology firm Renishaw is looking to boost sales of its measurement solutions in the US, such as Equator, following the purchase of R&R Sales LLC, a US-based supplier of fixtures for the global measurement and inspection market.
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Trac Measurement Systems has added Delcam's PowerINSPECT inspection software to the range of metrology programs it offers. Customers will be able to specify the Delcam software on equipment from Trac and on devices that are being upgraded and calibrated by the company.
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Gateshead, Team Valley-based Responsive Engineering Group has completed a £1.7 million investment in its specialist welding division (Weldex) that has seen capacity doubled, along with what is claimed to be "an exceptional welding and fabrication facility" that will allow it to deliver high-end welding and fabrication solutions.
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Japan's Fanuc, a maker of CNCs, robots and EDM, machining centre and injection moulding machines has reported sales of £4.1 billion to 31 March 2012, a rise of 20.7% on the previous year; net income grew more than 15% to over £1 billion.
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"We signed up to MACH 2012 with an open mind and are pleased to report it greatly exceeded our expectations," said Martin Doyle, Hardinge UK sales and marketing manager, of MACH 2012.
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Delcam UK is to sponsor the Young Inventor Award, launched by Black Country University Technical College (UTC) in partnership with Made in the Midlands.
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'A complete success' is how Blum Novotest described the recent MACH 2012 exhibition. The Lichfield-based company says it was "delighted with the quality of its enquiries at MACH", with a large number of aerospace and oil and gas OEMs registering their interest in the company's touch probes and TMAC tool monitoring solution.
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Lead generation was up on the new-look Roemheld stand at MACH 2012. The company's new, larger stand, prompted a great deal of interest from visitors to the show.
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Renishaw has received a Queen's Award for Enterprise 2012 in the Innovations category for its SP80 ultra-high accuracy analogue scanning probe.
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CIMdata, the leading global PLM consulting and research firm, estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide NC software and related services market grew by 14.4% in calendar year 2011.
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Laser Lines is now offering a bureau service for rapid prototyped and rapid manufactured parts using its fused deposition modelling (FDM) technology.
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