NCMT's forthcoming Open House at its Middlemarch technical centre near Coventry, to be held on Wednesday, 13 June, is described as a MACH 2012 reprise, with Okuma's Turncutting machining method demonstrated live (video, from minute 4).
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Premier Deep Hole Drilling says it is one of the first precision engineering companies to gain accreditation to the more stringent AS9100 Rev C aerospace quality standard.
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Sub-contract laser profiling specialist SSC Laser is to expand its operations, setting up a facility in Scotland.
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Delapena Honing Equipment has appointed Phil Williams as head of business development, with a remit to enhance the company's position as a leading supplier of honing systems and equipment to a worldwide market.
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KMF (Precision Sheet Metal)'s investment in its SC21 Silver-approved Advanced Solutions division has scored further success with an existing aerospace customer.
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Inca Geometric has installed a Dugard Eagle 1500 VMC vertical machining centre, worth some £125,000, to meet growing demands for subcontract machining.
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Vollmer UK is planning to take 50 engineers to Germany to attend its 'PCD Days' event, held from 11 to the 14 July. Subsidised by Vollmer, the cost is £95 and places can be reserved on a first come, first served basis.
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Global metrology, additive manufacturing and medical technology specialist Renishaw has reported that revenue for the third quarter ended 31 March 2012 was £81.6 million, compared with £78.4 million for the comparable period last year (an increase of 4%), with cumulative revenue for the 9 months to 31 March 2012 put at £228.8 million, 9% ahead of last year's the £210.6 million.
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XYZ Machine Tools almost doubled the value of orders taken previously at a MACH exhibition and saw a 25%-plus increase in the number of serious enquiries to follow up.
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Sodi-Tech EDM, the exclusive distributor of Sodick Europe EDM products in the UK, took four orders during what the company is saying was the company's most successful MACH exhibition to date, with over 300 new enquiries generated.
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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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