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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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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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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LVD Company nv is celebrating its 60th anniversary as an innovator in the design and manufacture of sheet metalworking equipment.
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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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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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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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"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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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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Robot-based deburring is an area of development targeted by AMRC Manufacturing (AML), with the organisation involved in developing the technology within the European COMET project (www.machinery.co.uk/41921)
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Tornos UK sold a Tornos Gamma 20/6B sliding-head turning centre to Hi-Spec Precision Engineering on the first day of MACH.
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The third order from Zhu Zhou Locomotive of China for a 30 by 4 m gantry Crawford Swift 'Powerstir' friction stir welding (FSW) machine head and control system, in a joint project with China Friction Stir Welding Centre, signals the continuing involvement of PTG Heavy Industries of Elland, West Yorkshire in a project that is a first for China and the world.
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Over five days (April 16-20), well over 20,000 people visited MACH 2012, inluding some 2,500 young people, many led on tours around the exhibition by apprentices from Machine Tool Technologies Association (MTA) member companies.
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Stratasys Inc, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing applications, and privately held Objet Ltd, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers for rapid prototyping, are set to merge.
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Additive manufacturing expert EOS, the worldwide leading manufacturer of laser-sintering systems, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Phenix Systems at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.
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By the close of 2012, Citizen Machinery says it will have extended its world leading position in bar turning CNC machine tools of capacity between 1 mm and 64 mm diameter, following a $34 million investment in machine tool building facilities in Japan, Philippines, China and Thailand.
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EDM, milling and laser ablation machine tool specialist Agie Charmilles UK has significantly upgraded its customer service and after-sales support systems at its Coventry facility.
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