Geo Kingsbury Open House bags orders

Held on the 15/16 May, the event was held to celebrate the company’s 50th anniversary and was well attended by 350 people from OEMs and subcontractors across the UK and Eire, with over three quarters attending a gala dinner on the first evening. All machines on show were built in the Baden Württemberg area of Southern Germany by Geo Kingsbury’s principals – Index, Traub, Hermle, SHW and Dürr Ecoclean, whose washing machines were exhibited for the first time in the UK since Geo Kingsbury took over the agency at the beginning of 2006. Two of the machines sold were a highly productive multi-spindle CNC auto from the Index MS range and a Hermle C 50 five-axis machining centre, a new model launched at the show capable of supporting two-tonne workpieces.