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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 ...
Pure Point of Sale Flies High With DYSS X7 Digital Die Cutter
Some 75 years after the father and founder of the Jet Engine, Sir Frank Whittle, formed his Power Jets Ltd. company in Lutterworth - another company is taking-off with its business. Working out of the same building where the foundation block of the jet aviation industry was born, Pure Point of Sale Ltd. has seen its sales and growth soar in its first five years. It all started for Pure in 2009 wh ...
Global Packaging Manufacturer Cuts Bottleneck with DYSS Cutting Table
When Blackburn Corrugated Paper (BCP) Fluted Packaging Ltd was taken over by the Huhtamaki Group in December 2013, an acquisition by one of the world's largest packaging companies, nobody could have envisaged the rapid rate of growth and innovation that would follow. Now named Huhtamaki BCP Ltd, the 157 employee, North West based company is a leading manufacturer of packaging liners, bake t ...
Kerf Plasma Machine Helps Build Bridges For Wigan Subcontractor
After working in the sheet metal profiling industry for over 20 years, Mark Derbyshire admirably wanted to build his own family business to provide a better future for his young family. Starting with nothing but industry contacts and experience, Mr Derbyshire formed Made Profiles in March and only a matter of months later, the company is already exceeding its projections and expectations. This is ...
Automotive Subcontractor Improves Productivity With Tornos Multi-Spindle Lathe
With 15 sophisticated lean manufacturing locations in North and South America, Europe and Asia, employing 2000 people worldwide to make precision-machine components for all major OEMs and Tier 1 automotive suppliers, Autocam is an amazing success story. Operating for over 25 years and boasting sales of US$300M in 2013; Autocam started out with 1 customer like everyone else. The difference behind t ...
Celebrities Endorse Signs Developed Specifically for Dementia Sufferers
When Find Signage was acquired by Anthony Cockcroft in 2011, the new owner quickly recognised there was an urgency in evolving the company's established reputation as market leader in the mental health sector by creating new product innovations. In the last three years the company, which is the world’s first developer of dementia-specific signs, having previously worked closely with numerous ...
Seeing clearly with SINJIN Contact Lenses
Ultra-precise diamond tools from the Korean company SINJIN give shape to lenses for glasses and contact lenses. For the production of its diamond-tipped profile cutters, the company is relying upon the precision of the Vollmer QXD 200 eroding machine. The profile cutters are mainly used to machine glass or plastic lenses for glasses. Ophthalmology – has an everyday relevance for around half of ...
Kerf Cuts A Clean Profile for Bristol Subcontractor
When Adam May was working for a steel profiling company, the young engineer was disillusioned by the poor quality and lead times of the supply chain. Mr May spotted a gap in the market for a reputable company to deliver high quality steel profiles to tight delivery schedules; so he set up AEM Steel Profiles Limited. Four years later, the Bristol company is already outgrowing its 5,500sq/ft facilit ...
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