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 →

January 2020 sees Spindle Revolution open its new state-of-the-art UK Spindle Repair Facility, near Lydney, Gloucestershire. Building on a reputation for high quality repairs previously carried out in Germany, Spindle Revolution will offer customers a more efficient and cost competitive… Continue Reading →

The latest version of PSL Datatrack production control software is now available. 227 Wishlist ideas have been satisfied in this release, adding 131 new configuration options which now total in excess of 1300. The update is focussed on improved automation,… Continue Reading →

FELIXprinters capped off its busy show season (which included exhibiting at TCT 2019 in Birmingham, U.K.) with a hugely successful four days at the flagship Formnext exhibition at the end of November in Frankfurt. FELIXprinters had working examples of its… Continue Reading →