Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has recently opened a new, state-of-the-art ‘Turnkey & Automation Centre’, located at its Campus facility in Leamington. The Centre provides Mills with both a dedicated area… Continue Reading →

Components are becoming more and more complex and drawing tolerances ever tighter. The ability of live turret tooling in a CNC mill-turn centre to move in the Y axis as well as in X and Z has therefore become increasingly… Continue Reading →

MILL P 500U 5-axis simultaneous machining centres from GF Machining Solutions. With their powerful and dynamic material removal capabilities and high rigidity characteristics, GF Machining Solutions’ Mikron MILL P 500U simultaneous 5-axis machining centres deliver exceptional accuracies and impressive cutting… Continue Reading →

Identifying the short and long term benefits of quality management ~ Manufacturers traditionally perceive metrology as something uniquely relevant to mission-critical industries. Like a chameleon adapting for survival, manufacturers in aerospace and medical device manufacturing must show compliance. However, others… Continue Reading →

norelem’s range of plain bearings ensure devices run smoothly and efficiently for engineers, due to their ability to store oil. This range includes composite plain bearings and rolled composite plain bearings, designed to be used in dry-running and lubricated applications,… Continue Reading →

A trio of Bumotec multi-axis, multi-tasking machining centres are not only helping Shanghai Medical Instruments (Group) to maintain its 50% market share in China for medical instruments, but their ability to finish-machine up to six faces at high accuracy and… Continue Reading →

NSK´s new low-friction Hub Unit Bearings (HUBs) bring a number of key benefits to electric, hybrid and new energy vehicles. Designed to generate up to 30% less friction without compromising the reliability of conventional products, the latest HUBs contribute to… Continue Reading →

Polycrystalline diamond round tools, available with short lead times enable, high efficiency aluminum machining. Kennametal has introduced a new line of PCD round tools for aluminum machining that delivers up to 10 times higher productivity than carbide tooling. The new… Continue Reading →

The Sempre Group and Hardwicke Enterprise collaborate on machine tending system   When Hardwicke Enterprise, a subcontract CNC machining specialist needed to upscale production after it won a new contract, it needed a flexible, quick and simple solution to increase… Continue Reading →

For over 25 years, a niche Merseyside manufacturer has been producing stainless steel service solutions for everything from hotels, restaurants and retail outlets to banks, corporate dining facilities and even offshore vessels. As a member of the Catering Equipment Suppliers… Continue Reading →