The Manufacturing Supply Chain Show at the Citywest Convention Centre in Dublin will be the very first opportunity for Irish manufacturers to see the new 2020 cutting tool launches from Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC). Using the 29th and 30th January… Continue Reading →

Jota Advanced Engineering, the subcontract precision engineering division of the Jota Group, has found that investment in the PSL Datatrack Status Board display system has brought a new dimension to its successful business by giving visual real time information on… Continue Reading →

FANUC’s open industrial IoT platform, called ‘FIELD system’, evaluates data from machines and systems centrally. The system can connect production machines of all manufacturers by means of a local network topology, enabling comprehensive data analysis of the entire process line…. Continue Reading →

Universal Robots (UR), one of the most trusted and widely-deployed collaborative robot (cobot) manufacturers in the world, today announced that the Denmark division of Carlsberg, one of the leading brewery groups in the world, has significantly improved staff safety and… Continue Reading →

XYZ Machine Tools has appointed Martin Barber to the role of Premium Product Sales Manager where he will have responsibility for sales of the company’s five-axis machining centres and the Robo-Tend machine tending system. Martin brings to the role over… Continue Reading →

Starrag UK has announced a machine rental scheme for its Bumotec range of multi-axis mill-turn and machining centres to provide potential users with a cost-effective way to capitalise on the benefits of multi-tasking, single set-up machining using world-leading machining technologies… Continue Reading →

  At DMG Mori’s traditional open house to be held in Pfronten, southern Germany from 11th to 15th February 2020, the global machine tool manufacturer will stress digitalisation and automation – https://pfronten.dmgmori.com/en   Areas of particular focus will be on… Continue Reading →

In the early 1990’s, a small family owned business called Niagara Tools that was re-grinding hand-tools and producing HSS cutters was sold by an ageing Dave Milne to the next generation of owners; a step that eventually took the company… Continue Reading →

Like many small start-ups, P.P. Profiles Ltd was a business conceived in a remarkably small building. In this case, a basement of a cotton mill in Walkden, Greater Manchester. Wind forward 43 years and the profile and processing company has… Continue Reading →

Despite many machine tool companies selling into the UK reporting a softening in the market in 2019, machining centre and lathe manufacturer Hurco Europe reported its second-best turnover ever, only slightly below that of the record year of 2018. At… Continue Reading →