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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 ...
Ellesco Polishes Up Bottlenecks for Sheetmetal Subcontractor
In the manufacturing industry, the buzzword around the sector at the moment is 're-shoring', where manufacturers are realising the benefits of bringing work back from foreign shores. For LL Potter & Sons, a sheet-metal subcontractor that specialises in the production of enclosures and associated metalwork products for electronic and communication applications, re-shoring is more than jus ...
Refurbishing Machines After Being a Tornos Customer 100 Years
For several months, Tornos has been offering a complete overhaul service for its Deco machines. It’s an interesting alternative for those who don’t want to invest in a new machine tool. One of the first customers to undertake an extensive overhaul project and reap the rewards was the Laubscher company in Switzerland. Founded in 1846, Laubscher Präzision AG is now the largest independent bar tur ...
AG/CAD Packages the Picture Perfect Solution for Venture Photography
With 35 retail outlets throughout the UK, a thriving worldwide on-line business and outlets throughout Asia and the USA, Venture Photography rightly brands itself as the pioneers of the 'storytelling image'. As the benchmark in family photography, the Venture umbrella also incorporates Venture Productions, a professional digital printing and picture framing service for fine art photographe ...
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