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Precision Machining Down to the Smallest Detail
Whether its die construction, dental technology, medical equip-ment or the watchmaking, jewelry or optical industries – the number of high-precision applications for micro machining has risen enormously in recent years. Anyone who wants to take an efficient approach to delicate tooling, high spindle speeds and extreme requirements for precision must have clamping systems that offer stable processe ...
AG/CAD Makes Signs for Success
When Mike Hitchman started his company in 1992, the experienced screen printer initially focused upon working with an industry sector that was familiar to him. From its humble beginnings that started with printing estate agents sales boards, SignsDisplay.com has evolved to become the most successful supplier of signs to the estate agent industry in the North East. The 10 employee company has e ...
Print Manufacturer Buys CNC Cutting Table
When the UYR Group started as a home based design agency over 15 years ago, the directors couldn't have envisaged the success that would follow. Within a few years, the agency evolved to print brokering and pushed onwards to its current niche as a full design, print and production service. Increasingly successful, UYR was designing, printing and creasing card up to 400GSM for night club ch ...
acs Clears the Air For F1 Subcontractor
When JK Engineering Ltd was formed in 2001, the focus of the subcontract business was to supply complex components to the F1 industry. Installing the latest 5-axis DMG machining centres and Open Mind CAM software, the Watford company has proven extremely successful since its inception. Roll forward little over a decade and the company strategy has evolved to target more diverse industry sector ...
F1 Subcontract Machine Shop Profits with Open Mind
When Newbury based Progressive Technologies built a strong customer base of F1, medical, oil & gas, fibre optics, defence and aerospace customers in the middle of the last decade, the company noticed the increasing need for 5-axis machining to eliminate multiple set-ups. After acquiring its first 5-axis CNC in 2007, a DMG DMU50evo the business fully encompassed 5-axis machining and its incumbent p ...
Kerf Recognised as Flagship Dealer For Burny & Kaliburn
The success of Kerf Developments has undoubtedly been built upon the quality of its Plasma and Oxy-fuel cutting machines. However, no company can rest on its laurels and Kerf has invested and evolved their business to not only be the UK and Ireland's primary manufacturer of high density plasma cutting and Oxy-fuel cutting equipment but also to be the UK and Ireland's flagship dealership fo ...
Paragon Taps into Lights-Out Machining with ITC
With an existing bank of sliding head turning centres and rigid fixed head twin spindle Miyano turning centres, Paragon Precision Products Ltd has evolved to become a prominent subcontract manufacturer for the Oil & Gas industry. To maintain its market position, increase its capabilities and capacity levels, Paragon has continued to make investments through 2012 that include a new Miyano ABX64 tur ...
Irish Subcontractor Bottles Success with Tornos
When Killala Precision Components Ltd was acquired 12 months ago by a brother and sister partnership with a background in the manufacturing and wine industry, the new owners immediately tasted the potential for success. The recipe for success with the County Mayo company started with the acquisition of a Tornos Sigma 32 from Premier Machine Tools, the Ireland agent for the Swiss machine tool manuf ...
Tornos Takes Off With Aerospace Solutions
The extensive R&D work at Tornos that has resulted with the introduction of new product lines an innovations plus the arrival of new brands has seen the Swiss machine tool manufacturer witness a change in its customer base over the last couple of years. Renowned for being the benchmark in Swiss precision sliding head turning centres, Tornos UK new machine tool sales has a concentration of over 40% ...
Bosch Brings Home the Bacon with HAM tools
The agreement Rainford Precision has struck with HAM Tools (www.ham-tools.com) to distribute its cutting tools in the UK will now enable British manufacturers to witness the productivity benefits that are being made on the continent. The new range of cutting tools has reaped significant rewards among various industry sectors throughout Europe. With regard to the automotive sector, one such company ...
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