High-speed and 5-axis milling machine tool specialist Mikron, part of Agie Charmilles, has recently celebrated the 1000th sale of its high-performance and high-speed (42,000 rpm spindle) milling machines.

Pallet changer specialists Midaco has made available an online calculator for potential users to calculate the payback such a system could deliver.

US-based tooling, workholding, and presetting specialist Parlec has acquired Troughton & Simms Manufacturing, Bristol.

PROLIMA (Environmental Product Lifecycle Management for Building Competitive Machine Tools), a European research programme, is being co-ordinated by AFM, the Spanish Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers.

A simple rail system, Strothmann GmbH’s RoundTrack, enables machine manufacturers, for example, to set up production flow-lines with ease is available in the UK, and German firms have already benefited.

Rolls-Royce forecasts that 48,000 engines, valued at $61 billion, will be needed over the next 20 years to meet demand for 23,000 new corporate jet aircraft from very light jets through to business jetliners.

Rolls-Royce is considering a new factory in the US as a backup to its UK production facilities to support Boeing 787 Trent 1000 engine production.

Sandvik Coromant has applied for its Coromant Capto toolholding system to be the basis of an ISO standard.

TaeguTec has launched a tool management system called CTMS (Commodity and Tool Management Services).

The Engineering Technology Group’s November open house (15-17 November) demonstrated that the company is practicing what it preaches – the delivery of high-productivity, one-hit engineered machining solutions.

AW Precision, Europe’s leading manufacturer of punches, dies, die sets and press tool accessories, has opened a new high-tech manufacturing facility in central Belgium.

Sir Digby Jones, the director general of the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) has opened the Northern Technologies Advanced Manufacturing Centre in Burnley, Lancashire.

Japan’s Citizen is now the market-leading supplier of sliding-head machines in Switzerland.

Delcam’s Power Solution software has been used in the creation of a mechanical clock designed to keep precise time for 10,000 years. Delcam’s contribution has been in supporting the manufacture of a cam (pictured).

People who could save British manufacturing industry are meeting in Cambridge and Oxford in this month. And they have ironically taken the purgorative dinosaur label and twisted it into a battling, positive term by ...

Austria’s Emco Maier and US CADCAM company DP Technology have launched a joint CNC programming agreement to co-operatively market DP Technology’s ESPRIT programming system, specifically adapted to fit Emco’s product ...