The latest machine acquisitions form part of an £800,000 investment made in the past five years since a management buyout by Geoff Barnes and three co-directors. Other investments include: relocation to larger premises in Stourbridge, West Midlands; a doubling of Sodick CNC wire eroders to four; and installation of five CAD/CAM seats.

Brierley services and manufactures tooling for the aerospace, automotive and white goods industries. Tools are generally machined before hardening to standard tolerances of ± 0.01 or ± 0.02mm. As there is a lot of drilling in press tool manufacture, throughspindle coolant has been provided on both of the new 40-taper Hurco machines, whose spindles are fed by 40-station, swing-arm tool carousels and deliver speeds up to 8,000rpm.

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