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Rifle Maker Shoots to Success with ITC Cutting Tools
Many of us may have fired a rifle, but for Robert Nibbs it has been a lifelong passion that has evolved from childhood enthusiasm through professional career to the founding of a high-end rifle manufacturing business. Since joining his first Rifle club at the age of 14, Robert has immersed himself in the sport, representing Team GB during his career. For the last 26 years, Robert Nibbs has proudly ...
hyperMILL CAM Software Puts the Brakes on Inefficiency for Alcon
Established in 1983 by engineer and sports car racer John Moore, Alcon Components Ltd initially made brakes for Audi Sport’s Group B Quattro rally cars. Today, the Tamworth company provides braking solutions such as discs, callipers, cylinders, valves, balance bars, pedal boxes, clutches and much more for the top echelons of motorsport and specialist markets – it is this reputation in motorsport ...
Irish Construction Company Excavates Productivity Gains With Kerf
When BSK Engineering opened its doors for business in 2001, the family-owned subcontract manufacturer was primarily serving the architectural steel industry with the design and production of gates, railings, staircases and other innovative design structures. However, a change of direction in 2012 propelled the Dungannon Company onto a path of exponential growth; something that has been supported b ...
If it's not burning, it's not earning
To realise its ambitions of being the UK’s leading independent profiling and processing company, the P.P. Group has consolidated its business interests by bringing its three manufacturing facilities in Salford, Gorton and St Helens, under one roof - a brand new 110,000sq/ft 6 acre site in Oldham. Moving to its new factory in 2017, the £9m investment included a 36m oxy-fuel and plasma cutting cell ...
BCT Taps into Profit Margins With ITC
When BCT Engineering Ltd opened its doors for business over 30 years ago, the Woking Company revved up its revenue from producing performance parts for motorcycles. Over the last three decades, this has evolved into the automotive, automation, offshore, aerospace and motorsport industries. With a concerted effort to speed-up productivity, the Surrey subcontractor has enlisted the support of Tamwor ...
Tornos Helps Schaller to ‘Rock All Over the World’
Top guitar players and metal-cutting experts share a common passion - The search for the last µ and for the perfect sound. And that's what they find at Schaller, a company that produces mechanical components of absolute precision for electric guitars. To achieve this precision, Schaller relies on CNC automatic lathes from Swiss manufacturer Tornos. Schaller GmbH is a German manufacturer of ...
Clamping technology increases productivity for Maas Frästechnik
"With the production of single pieces and small series, there is still a great deal of potential today that is going to waste at the moment", says Stefan Maas, owner of Maas Frästechnik. Primarily when it comes to choosing the clamping devices, there is a great deal of potential that is not being used in his opinion. Together with Martin Schultheis from Qmax Plus Tooling + Engineering and SCHUNK, ...
Motorcycle Dealership Streamlines Service Department With Nederman
Founded in 1980, P&H Motorcycles has grown from a garden shed business to one of the largest motorcycle ‘destinations’ in the South of England. Operating from a 28,000sq/ft facility in Crawley, the growth of the business has recently noted the extension and refurbishment of its motorcycle service and repair department. In refurbishing and enlarging the new service facility from 3,000 to 4,000s ...
If it's not burning, it's not earning
To realise its ambitions of being the UK’s leading independent profiling and processing company, the P.P. Group has consolidated its business interests by bringing its three manufacturing facilities in Salford, Gorton and St Helens, under one roof - a brand new 110,000sq/ft 6 acre site in Oldham. Moving to its new factory in 2017, the £9m investment included a 36m oxy-fuel and plasma cutting cell ...
ITC Drills Provide 400% Cycle Time Improvement for GPR
In 2016, Surrey based GPR Ltd made its first strides from 3 to 5-axis machining and it was Tamworth cutting tool manufacturer Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) that fully supported the subcontractor in selecting the optimal tooling solution for the new machine. Two years after the Matsuura MX-520 was installed to complement the company’s 3 & 4-axis HAAS machining centres and ITC Technical Sales ...
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