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 →

Dormer Pramet’s hole-making assortment has grown with several new additions. The global cutting tool manufacturer has extended its range of Hydra replaceable head drills, launched a solid carbide drill for aluminum and added a new spotting drill. Providing a highly… Continue Reading →

XYZ Machine Tools has extended its turning range with the addition of the ProTURN RLX 780, a 3 metre gap bed lathe with a swing of 780 mm, that has been engineered to use the latest ProtoTRAK control. Previously XYZ… Continue Reading →

Toshiba Machine has announced the launch of two new collaborative robots at the International Robot Exhibition (IREX) — the world’s leading robot show, held at the Tokyo Big Sight, Japan on Wednesday 18 to Sunday 22 December 2019. Expanding on… Continue Reading →

New Doosan vertical lathe investment is more than instrumental in helping leading precision subcontract specialist consolidate and grow its aerospace business. Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the the UK and Ireland, has recently supplied a… Continue Reading →

Ferrabyrne is a specialist moulding company predominantly producing bonded rubber to metal technology & suspension systems for the rail industry & commercial vehicles. The Littlehampton-based business manufactures as much as possible in-house, including the design and production of mould tools…. Continue Reading →