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Blum Ensures NASCAR Team Finishes First For Productivity
When the owner of your race team is a three-time winner of the American NASCAR championship series, as well as a three-time Super Bowl winning coach, you might expect that no stone would be left unturned in achieving excellence in performance, either on the track or in the machine shop. For Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR); Huntersville, North Carolina, teamwork is the key to success in the NASCAR Sprint ...
Tooling Manufacturer Develops New Products & Growth With Vollmer
When Prima Tooling recognized the exponentially increasing demand for PCD tooling, the company invested heavily in Vollmer machine tools to support cutting tool production. However, the Essex based cutting tool manufacturer that opened its doors for business in 1979, first noted the demand for PCD tooling back in 1985. Like other cutting tool manufacturers, Prima was limited throughout the 1990 ...
Westwind Reduces Subcontract Costs With Tornos Investment
As the world's leading and largest specialist designer and manufacturer of air bearing spindles, Westwind Air Bearings is enjoying significant growth levels across many of its spindle sectors. To support this growth, Westwind has undertaken an investment program to bring the production of jets, and a number of additional small machined parts in-house from subcontractors. The reasoning behin ...
Stepping Into 5-Axis Machining With Open Mind
When Copsey Engineering committed to set itself as a benchmark in the subcontracting industry, the Essex manufacturer made its first step from 3 to 5-axis machining with the acquisition of an OKK 5-axis machining centre and CAM software from OPEN MIND Technologies to drive the business forward. Since acquiring the OKK VP600 machine and its first seat of hyperMILL in 2006, the company has since ...
Vollmer is Part of the Family at Ernest Bennett's
Celebrating its 50th year of business next year, one of the founding partners and company chairman at Ernest Bennett (Darlington) Ltd puts the company’s success down to the hard work and support of his family, long serving staff and a strategy of heavy re-investment in technology. As Ernest Bennett (Darlington) Chairman, Mr Rob Maxey recalls: “The Company was formed by my uncle Ernest Bennett ...
Bottling Successful Precision With Blum
With the worldwide consumption of PET bottle caps estimated at 4 billion pieces a day, it is obvious that the production of plastic caps for the beverage, cosmetic or household industries is a lucrative field. This lucrative industry has its relentless rules and regulations. The Czech producer of base plates for multiple injection moulds, the Tirad company, has been a part of the supply chain, ...
Tornos MultiSwiss Improves Productivity for French Automotive Subcontractor
During EMO 2011, a new concept of machine forming a link between sliding headstock lathes and multi-spindle machines was unveiled by Tornos. At the time, a Tornos customer in France, Joseph Martin SA was the first company to be used as a test-bed for the MultiSwiss 6x14 turning machine. At the end of 2012, Joseph Martin purchased a second MultiSwiss machine, this time in Chucker version. Laure ...
OPEN MIND Moulds Success For Carbon Composite Manufacturer
When Simon Farren started Reverie Ltd 13 years ago with the focus upon high quality carbon fibre aftermarket parts for the motorsport sector, the ex-Lotus engineer couldn't have envisaged the success that would stem from car enthusiasts appetite for lighter and faster vehicles. Initially producing body parts and panels from pre-pre fibre glass, Kevlar and carbon fibre to reduce weight in the l ...
Metrology Innovator Develops Process Stability for German Aero Engine Manufacturer
Safety Is Paramount – In The Air And On The Production Line Quality is of the utmost importance to the aerospace industry. Small wonder then, that leading engine manufacturers MTU Aero Engines use the LaserControl NT optical measuring system from Blum-Novotest on over 100 machines. The process stability the laser system offers is particularly impressive, helping to achieve the best possible ma ...
hyperMILL CAM Software Keeps Wheels Turning For Birmingham Subcontractor
Specialising in the production of prototype components and complex small batch runs for the automotive sector, Birmingham based Advanced Engineering (UK) Ltd has always maintained its ethos of investment in technology to deliver component quality at lead times beyond the capabilities of its competitors. This philosophy has resulted in the company investing over £2.75m in under seven years. The ...
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