Workholding specialist Brown and Holmes (Tamworth) Ltd has been appointed UK and Ireland sole agent for Spanish clamping solutions specialist Fresmak Arnold's range of high pressure vices.
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600 UK will showcase its entire range of advanced CNC turning centres, manual/CNC 'teach' lathes and manual centre lathes at a special Open House event for all UK customers, worldwide distributors and other engineering specialists at its Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire headquarters from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 June.
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A bespoke fixturing solution, for use in a new Aerospace 'green button' cell, has been developed as a result of a collaboration between Brown & Holmes (Tamworth) and Roemheld (UK).
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600 UK will showcase its entire range of advanced CNC turning centres, manual/CNC 'teach' lathes and manual centre lathes at a special Open House event for all UK customers, worldwide distributors and other engineering specialists at its Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire headquarters from Tuesday 11 to Thursday 13 June.
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US-headquartered machine tool maker Hardinge is to acquire workholding specialist Forkardt from Illinois Tool, also headquartered in the USA. The acquisition price is put at $34 million.
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Craftsman Tools is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, following its establishment, in 1953, as a tool and cutter grinder.
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Schunk believes that its 20 mm high, 90 mm diameter and 20 mm clamping pin diameter Vero-S NSE mini is the flattest pneumatic quick-change pallet module in the world.
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Tamworth-based workholding and machining firm Brown and Holmes has achieved record levels of growth, with sales hitting the £5 million for the first time in its history - plans are in place to further increase the turnover to £8 million over the next three years, says the company.
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Preparations for MACH 2014 (Birmingham NEC, 7-11 April), the UK's premier manufacturing technology event, are underway, with early signs pointing to high levels of interest from exhibitors, reports organiser, the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA).
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600 UK is investing £600,000 in its manufacturing facility based in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, the home of Colchester and Harrison manual and CNC lathes, Pratt Burnerd International workholding chucks and Gamet Bearings.
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Under a new agency agreement with the US manufacturer Techni-Grip, NCMT will be marketing an alternative to the traditional machine vice for component clamping.
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The Engineering Technology Group and Hardinge have reached a sales, service and customer support agreement for Hardinge and Bridgeport machine tools and workholding equipment.
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Vero Software has strengthened its Edgecam product team with the appointment of an International sales manager.
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Haas Automation has set out to make sure that machine tool buyers make the most of the Chancellor George Osborne's improved Annual Investment Allowances.
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For the 26 weeks ending 29 September 2012, UK-headquartered The 600 Group plc has announced revenues increased by 9.5% to £19.91 million and net profit before taxation from continuing operations as £1.34 million, a six-fold increase on last year's comparable figure.
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Two new machines, one each from the Citizen CNC sliding-head and Miyano stables, are due for UK launch at the Citizen Machinery UK Open House to be staged between 9 and 11 October at the headquarters in Bushey, Watford.
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Ajax Machine Tools International has been appointed UK distributor for Spanish chuck manufacturer MK's products.
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The 600 Group PLC has announced the closure of its Polish facility, in Tarnow, following a strategic review of the group's machine tools and precision engineered components business in the UK and Europe, initiated by recently appointed chief executive Nigel Rogers. [Updated 14:40, 14/8/2012 - clarification of Polish and Heckmondwike activities]
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Matsuura, Tornos, Fanuc Robotics and Mitutoyo are to hold a joint technology event at the Matsuura and Tornos technology centres in Leicestershire, on 16, 17 and 18 of October.
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WDS Fixturing Systems, a division of WDS Component Parts, has worked with a specialist UK manufacturer of medical devices to help develop the machining process for stainless steel components used in metering equipment so accurate it can measure down to individual molecules
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Dixons Surgical Instruments of Wickford, Essex is a precision medical engineering firm and one of its products is a highly complex orthopaedic ring fixator system for the successful repair of limb bones - it is using Sytem 3R zero point fixturing to successfully support flexibility and short change-over times.
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The GTMA and Vero Software are co-hosting a free-to-attend sheet metal event for the automotive industry, to be held at Agie Charmilles' Coventry HQ on 5 July.
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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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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 the Manufacturing Technologies Association's (MTA) member companies.
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Brown & Holmes (Tamworth) has become a partner in the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC), Coventry, which has been set up to bridge the gap between university-based research and the development of innovative manufacturing solutions.
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