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First UK installations of new pressing and bending equipment enable a UK sub-contract sheet metal fabricator to become more energy efficient Yellowpatter, one of the UK's leading bespoke subcontract sheet [...]

Advanced laser systems make light work of tube cutting and profiling for a service-driven company When Ross Taylor took charge of laser cutting and automatic sawing specialist Duright Engineering on [...]

Turned parts subcontractor Qualiturn Products has added two more Star machines to its battery of multi-axis mill-turn centres. Its Hertford facility now boasts 15 Star sliders, all under eight years [...]

A new Trumpf TLC 1005 5kW laser cell has boosted Subcon Laser's ability to supply three-dimensional welded structures. This is the company's second investment in 5kW processing, and is already [...]

Shop floor automation has released the full potential of investment in five-axis high-performance milling for Cosworth, which in 2004 installed an Erowa Robot PX to enable lights-out manufacture of high- [...]

Flexible pallet handling and storage for 5-axis machining is designed to bring automation to the mould shop and complex component manufacturing environment Five axis VMC specialist Hermle has introduced an [...]

Waterjet Technology Ltd is gaining a reputation for its 'can-do' attitude to business. To support this the company has two high specification, twin head, Bystronic Byjet waterjet machines to profile [...]

Metalex Products in Horsham specialises in supplying cut billets to OEMs and subcontractors in the South East of England. Headquartered in Ferndown, Dorset, the company expanded in early 2004 by [...]

Steel Service Centre, the laser cutting subcontractor, has ordered equipment worth over #440,000 from Bystronic Pullmax; a Bystronic Byspeed 3015 laser cutting centre equipped with 4.4 kW resonator, sheet loader [...]

Mayflower Engineering has grown into a 90-employee company providing carbon and stainless steel fabrication and machining services. Machining components and fabricated assemblies for heavy industries such as mining, steel, construction [...]

In 2001, the turned parts division of subcontractor MSP started to sell some of the 27 cam-type multi-spindle automatics it had used since 1969 and replace them with CNC turning [...]

A specialist turned part subcontract uses the one-hit capability and flexibility of the latest sliding head lathes to dramatically improve productivity - and develop its own product John Harrison, the [...]

A Caterpillar transmissions business unit makes the decisions on the best way to machine features on drive shafts for off-road vehicles A sharply increasing world demand for shafts used in [...]

Systematic investment has enabled a specialist precision machinist to cope with the cost down pressures applied by its customers in the aerospace and motorsport sectors. Despite soaring raw material costs, [...]

A new range of ball nose milling cutters from Stellram is designed for roughing complex profiles. To cope with the high impact forces and heat generated when roughing hard materials, [...]

Barnsley-based Qualter Hall has installed an MTE Compact Plus bed mill with universal spindle head from Warwick Machine Tools. The machine will mill, drill, ream and bore economically many of [...]

Two used manual/CNC machine tools are enjoying a new lease of life at Advanced Ceramics' Stafford site. The lathe and bed mill, refurbished by XYZ Machine Tools, are machining ceramic [...]

With the capacity to manufacture and test tooling of up to 3 tonnes - up to 5 tonnes in exceptional circumstances - Gilberts (Blackpool) sometimes requires large die sets. A [...]

LEAD MACHINE TOOLS Tel: 01625 434990 Leadwell's latest CNC Drilling & Tapping Centre, the TDC-510, has a chip-to-chip time of only 3 seconds, due to faster spindle speeds, rapid traverse [...]

WDS www.wdsltd.co.uk Two new twin vice systems from WDS enable companies to increase productivity by clamping two or more components. The Twin Vice and the lighter Speed Clamp are the [...]

Llanelli-based 3K's Engineering is a company determined not to be beaten by the current manufacturing downturn in its region -- largely brought about by the difficulties the steel industry is [...]

FC Thompson Valves has ordered a second Hewa indexing chuck for valve body workholding. The 220mm diameter two jaw chuck replaces a Hewa which has provided consistent service for twelve [...]

With a growing order book -- and ever mindful of continuous process improvement -- Rittal considered how best to boost its production capacity. The result -- the purchase of a [...]

The telecommunications sector's demand for small, highly complex turned parts has led to a revitalisation of what was becoming an ailing industry in the UK. Subcontractors using the latest sliding [...]

Livingston-based Petroleum Manufacturing Services is using an Agie Innovation 3 die sinking machine to produce components for leading-edge intervention and control mechanisms used in smart-well technology. PMS creates bespoke, rapidly [...]

Keystone Valves in Glasgow has made a large investment in productivity associated with the machining of a series of actuator main bodies used to control pumping systems in the oil, [...]

The Wilson wheel is indispensable, says Nobles Industries. The company's products -- including insulated food containers, display carts, air-handling ductwork and high-spec office doors -- are made by a combination [...]

* LEADER GRIPPERS Tel 01932 563722 Three Jaw Gripper A 3-jaw gripper with a T-slot guide, available from Leader Grippers, Chertsey, is a workholding device for automated assembly operations. Models [...]

Coolant quality is `better than ever' according to the machine operators at Filton. So says cell manager John Myers, who was instrumental in planning and overseeing the Master Chemical turnkey [...]

The 29 tube production lines at the Sosta stainless steel pipemaking factory in Berlin are monitored by automated weld positioning equipment from Meta Vision Systems. Based on non-contact laser seam [...]

They're queuing up to use the Faro measuring arm at Tallent Engineering, County Durham. Since purchasing the arm in February, 30 operators have been trained to use it and a [...]

In response to customer feedback Coventry Gauge has developed a digital thread depth gauge which allows measurements to be documented via a RS232 output. Called the Digi-thread, the instrument covers [...]

The Proscan 3D surface profilometer from Scantron can take up to 2000, non-contact measurement points per second, and can measure changes as small as 10nrn in surface topography. Because it [...]

The navigational equipment manufactured by Raytheon Marine has to tolerate very arduous conditions so it is essential that threaded fasteners are tightened to the correct torque settings. With threads as [...]

Suitable for both lab and shopfloor environments, the Starrett HB350 horizontal bench top projector is compact, cost effective and easy to use. The unit is supplied with a xl0 lens [...]

Dimension software from Carl Zeiss can be used as a digitisation system for reverse engineering and can help to reduce the process loops in model and mould making. Once surfaces [...]

Moore & Wright has introduced three new levels to its existing range: a horizontal level, frame levels and the clinomatic digital level. The horizontal level has a sensitivity of 0.05mm/m [...]

Zytek's engine development company supplies engines, engine management and ignition systems for the FIA F3000 championship. Since 1996 Zytek has supplied all teams in the series. Success in racing has [...]

French manufacturer AMG's fully modular -- therefore easily adaptable- system of vacuum suction manipulators for the motor industry can be mounted on robot or automated mechanisms within stamping press production [...]

Multi-purpose vee-blocks come in two grades: for general machine shop use and for inspection (ground on all machined faces). The one-piece cast iron `Vangle' blocks eliminate alignment problems and [...]

New fixturing from Brown and Holmes was part of a turnkey package for BAE Systems Power & Controls division, which aimed to improve the machining of bulk meter components. Benefits [...]

King Automotive System' products include automobile swivel knuckles. Essentially, these are complex, assymetrical turned parts -- and can create enormous out-of-balance forces on turning. The potential loss of cylindricity has [...]

Sommer's pneumatic cylinder jacks, combined with swivel units, tackle simple pick and place applications or complex handling operations. Air conduits housed within the cylinder body reduce the risk of [...]

The Switchable Sheet Floater at the blank destacking area uses a combination of immense magnetic power and a compact pneumatic unit to provide a blank separator system suitable for any [...]

Specialist machinist BD Morris is enjoying multiple benefits from use of the award-winning Multichuck MMY clamping system. The system is sealed to prevent swarf ingress -- so there's less downtime [...]

Using System 3R Dynafix pallets and low-profile manual Macro chucks, Folkeston Precision is able to carry out programming quickly during the day, run through the night and harvest the work [...]

BAE Systems Power & Control at Titchfield, Fareham, produce a wide range of fuel pumps for the world's aerospace industry. BAE identified the need to improve manufacturing and eliminate any [...]

Getting oil from below the sea is being made easier, faster and safer through the application of machine tools and associated software systems Wireline Engineering is a small innovative company, [...]

Driven tools have changed the nature of work produced on many CNC lathes. Aided by multi-axis control, they are enabling more parts to be produced in a one-hit cycle The [...]

Bologna-based CMT specialises in solutions to difficult workholding problems, collaborating with machine builders and users. Its range of power chucks for almost any application is now available through TDT Technology [...]