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Medical Giant's Success With First Ever Tornos EvoDECO's
The Stryker Corporation is regarded as being a global leader in the production of orthopaedic and general medical equipment. With an extensive range of products that include joint prostheses, trauma and vertebrae implants and surgical navigation systems, Stryker has over 25,000 employees in more than 100 countries. Regarded as the benchmark in its field, Stryker relies upon turning centres from To ...
Peugeot Citroen Save Tooling Time with OPEN MIND CAD/CAM Package
A great many tools have to be created to mass produce quality vehicles, and they have to be flawless. Their quality and cost are key factors in the competition of the global automotive market. The skill of the toolmakers and their machine-tool programming have a crucial role to play in meeting these challenges. The role of the Peugeot Citroen Group (PSA) tool shop in Mulhouse involves designing ...
CNC International Provides the Spark for Oil & Gas Subcontractor
Carving your own niche in the subcontract manufacturing sector is something that many will boast, but in reality, there is always a company snapping at the heels offering the same service. This isn't the case for Poole based Multispark, a subcontract manufacturer to the oil & gas, satellite and F1 sectors. The second generation family owned business has been working in the wire EDM and spar ...
Kerf Improves Cycle Times by 70% for Subcontract Profile Company
When subcontract profile cutting company Patrick Steel Ltd was looking at possible ways to expand its well established business, the Coventry company investigated the potential benefits of acquiring a plasma cutting machine to complement its existing cutting, grinding and fabrication capacity. As a company established in 1986, Patrick Steel has the expertise, experience and industry insight th ...
Automotive Subcontractor Burns Rubber With OPEN MIND
Over a decade ago, Burnley was devastated by the news that French Tyre manufacturer Michelin was closing its truck tyre factory in Lancashire with the loss of over 450 jobs. Since the 2002 closure, the local authority has strived to re-develop the 84 acre (406,270sq/ft) site and its efforts were rewarded in 2013 with Burnley winning the prestigious award of the ‘Most Enterprising Area in the UK’. ...
Global Metrology Company Buys UK's 1st Ellesco Twin Brush Polishing Machine
As part of a global group with 11 facilities on 5 continents, Thorlabs UK based in Ely, is a broad based optical technologies company with expertise in the design and manufacture of an extensive array of innovative photonics products for manufacturing and research. With a printed catalogue present in almost every optics laboratory worldwide, the product range covers optical and opto-mechanical com ...
ThyssenKrupp Automates Grinding of Stainless Steel Sheets
As part of the globally renowned Thyssenkrupp Group, Dortmund based ThyssenKrupp MetalServ GmbH is the world‘s largest Logistics Centre for the supply of stainless steel and alloys with over 15,000 tons of metal continuously stocked at a 130,000m2 facility with a 50,000m2 hall space. With over 320 employees on-site, the General Manager of the Logistics Centre, Mr Marcus Raback, explains: "We ...
Thunderbike invests in innovative solutions
Part of what makes Thunderbike so successful, is that the leading provider of custom-tailored bikes uses a carefully selected network of manufacturing partners. Considering that individually milled parts make up 80% of the product, choosing the right partner is critical to its success. Thunderbike relies on the hyperCAD® and hyperMILL® CAD/CAM systems from OPEN MIND and the developed NC progra ...
Tornos Provides Flexibility for Irish Subcontractor
As a longstanding Tornos customer, Mann Engineering is only too familiar with the benefits that arrive from investing in technology from the Swiss machine tool builder. Having purchased a Tornos Deco sliding head turning centre over ten years ago, the Wexford subcontractor has just invested in another two machines to meet the changing needs of the marketplace. The Irish manufacturer bought its ...
AJS Profiles Cuts 500mm Thick Steel With Kerf 'Monster Machine'
Continually maintaining a delivery lead time in the region of 2-3 days can be a daunting prospect for most manufacturers, but for Smethwick based AJS Profiles Ltd, it has become a promise that enables it to outperform its competitors. For anybody purchasing steel profiling services, long lead-times are often the norm and that's why AJS has become the envy of the industry with its capacity, cap ...
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