The event, targeted at UK customers, worldwide distributors and associated engineering specialists, will see the company demonstrating new, market-leading product developments, including additions to the Colchester and Harrison lathe ranges, together with its Pratt Burnerd International workholding offering.
These product launches will include significant enhancements to the Colchester and Harrison 'market benchmark' centre lathe ranges, with new machine models to complement and significantly enhance the Harrison Alpha X Series combination CNC lathes.
Visitors will be able to tour 600 UK's manufacturing facility, which has been totally reconfigured and modernised, following a £750,000 investment project completed in 2014.This tour will allow them to follow the manufacture and build of Colchester Tornado CNC turning centres, Harrison Alpha manual/CNC 'teach' lathes and manual centre lathes, together with Pratt Burnerd International advanced workholding products.
Also on display at the event will be taper roller bearings from 600 Group member Gamet Bearings, plus laser marking systems from Electrox, another group company.
Mike Berry, 600 UK managing director, says: "After listening to our customers' feedback over the years, our design and development team has been working extremely hard to make many of these ideas a reality, and this year's Open House event marks the culmination of that work.
We are very excited about these new developments and the benefits that they will bring to our customers around the world."
