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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 ...
CNF Precision Optimises Productivity from ITC Tools
When Clive Fearnley borrowed £200 in 1967 from a family member to buy his first lathe, he couldn't have envisaged that his start-up company would be spending over £1.5m in equipment, some 45 years later. The impressive growth at CNF Precision is credit to investment in the latest technology - something a million miles from a small room above a dairy occupied by one man, a small lathe, a drill ...
Engineering Solutions Acquires DMC Machines from Leader CNC
Like many business partnerships, the ambition and strategic desire of one director may be poles apart from their fellow directors. This appears a case in point for Newbury based Engineering Solutions & Supply Ltd, a company partnership that dates back to the early 1990's. Since, Managing Director Mr Nick Wright bought out his business partner four years ago, change has been exponential with th ...
ITC Makes it Plain Sailing To Success for Moat House Eyewear
When Nick and Sam Clarke decided to leave the rat-race of daily life, the husband & wife team moved to a picturesque moat-house in the sleepy village of Appleby-Magna near Tamworth. When left with an abundance of oak from the fallen limb of a tree in the grounds of The Moat House, the couple felt the high quality wood was too good to burn and set about finding a more eco-friendly solution. The inn ...
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