Geo Kingsbury wins Waldrich Coburg sole UK and Ireland agency

Waldrich Coburg has historically focused on building large, portal-type mills with up to five CNC axes for specific machining applications, although the company has more recently introduced smaller, standard horizontal machining centres. The largest machines produced by the Bavarian company, which is located in Coburg, boast over 20 m in the X-axis and support 500 tonnes on the table. Customers are typically manufacturers in the marine, rail, power generation, defence, machine tool, printing and construction sectors. Richard Kingsbury, managing director of Gosport-based Geo Kingsbury, says: "The wide range of Waldrich Coburg machining centres complements and completes our LPM (large prismatic machine) range, which we have developed over the past few years to include Zimmermann, Burkhardt + Weber and SHW. They are all top quality machines built in southern Germany. "In the last quarter of 2014, we opened an office in Birmingham, headed by business development director, Chris Hewitson, specifically to promote our LPM range. He is assisted by senior applications engineer Steve Burrows and, from 1 January, by a new member of staff, Ken Fryer, who has represented Waldrich Coburg in the UK for many years."