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World’s largest robotic press brake?
MTL Group has acquired what is believes is the largest robotic press brake system in the world. The £750,000 7.2m, 640 tonne Ursviken press brake is fitted with a 600kg capacity robot and will allow MTL to produce large components for OEMs such as Caterpillar, JCB, Sandvik, Bombardier and BAE more quickly, accurately and cost-effectively than traditional methods.
Stroud Metal Co acquires Platform Pressings
Stroud Metal Co has acquired London-based Platform Pressings. Managing director, Matthew Large, says the acquisition will offer higher levels of production flexibility and service to both companies’ customers.
Water jet cuts costs and composites
Chesterfield-based Access Engineering has ordered at £350,000 Bystronic water jet cutting machine. The machine is fitted with a shuttle table that the company believes will give huge cost savings for customers by eliminating loading and unloading times. Access also expects the the machine’s ability to cut composites without causing delamination will open up new markets.
Cutting edge fabrication for Chinese tunnelling project
Sheffield heavy engineering company DavyMarkham has fabricated and shipped a 320 tonne cutterhead for a 12.4m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM), being built by The Robbins Company of Ohio. It has been despatched to the mountains of Sichuan Province, China, where it will bore a 17km tunnel feeding water to the turbines of a new 4,800MW hydropower station.
The colour of money
Dagenham based Colourite Metal Treatments has had a costing system overhaul that has not only increased turnover but has resulted in an energy saving of 12%. MAS helped the company introduce some lean techniques that allowed it to reduce scrap and defect rates by 50% and cut energy costs by 12%.
£600,000 Correa milling machine for Clifton
Clifton Precision Tools, the Rowley Regis-based press tool and machining specialist has ordered a new Correa FP40 milling machine to enhance its large milling capacity. The company currently has 10 CNC milling machines and installed its first Correa in August 2007.
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CMM investment for Turbocam
Fareham-based Turbocam, one of the world’s largest five-axis machining specialists, with 75 five-axis machines at its facilities in the UK, USA and India is upgrading its UK inspection facilities with two new Wenzel CMMs.
Midlands manufacturing show success
The recent Midlands Manufacturing Technology Show demonstrated the effectiveness of regional engineering exhibitions in bringing together buyers, producers and service companies in their area, say the organizers European Trade & Exhibition Services (ETES).
Pressing down costs
Southampton-based Simplefit says it can save customers about 75% on the unit cost of components by designing tooling that combines pressing, shear forming and piercing techniques to replace machining operations. The result is major cost savings on long term products.
Supply Chain News
China and India may not be the right answer
Many firms are failing to establish effective global production networks and rely too heavily on short-term outsourcing and offshoring to countries such as India and China, says Paul Christodoulou of Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing (IfM).
NPL notes upturn in UK foundry business
NPL Technologies, which provides prototype and production tooling services to the foundry industry, has recently seen a 30% increase in business from UK-based foundries, following several years in which its foundry tooling business declined to a low level.
Comments & Analysis
Sector focus: The UK Machine Tools Marketplace
Machine tools have been at the heart of UK innovation since the industrial revolution; they are truly the mother machines – the machines that build machines and are used to create almost everything around us that is made from metal, plastics, polymers, composites and ceramics.
Four things to know about locking fasteners
In the world of engineered components, let's face it, fasteners aren't the first thing engineers think about. They're not exciting, they're not sexy. They're commonly treated as routine. But choose the wrong fastener for the application and the best laid engineering plans and products can fall apart, says Del Williams.
