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26/ 04/ 21
Medical Work Offsets Shortfall in Aerospace Contract Machining
Over the past decade, Managing Director Nick Street has driven the growth of Trust Precision in Eastwood, near Nottingham, which has become one of the leading providers in the Midlands of…
17/ 03/ 21
Double Y-Axis Mill-turn Centre with FANUC Control and Citizen’s Chipbreaking Software
The first fixed-head lathe in Citizen Machinery UK’s Miyano range to have the company’s patented LFV (low frequency vibration) chipbreaking software in a Fanuc control system is the new, 42…
09/ 02/ 21
Subcontractor Started with One Sliding-head Lathe: Now There Are Ten
When physics graduate Paul Cobb asked his father Reg in 1997 to help him invest in a subcontract machining business specialising in CNC sliding-head turning, Mr Cobb senior groaned; he…
17/ 11/ 20
Fixed-head Turning up to 40% Faster and Tool Life Doubled on Sliding-head Lathe
In August 2020, Merseyside subcontractor Bryken took delivery of its sixth Miyano BNE-51MSY turn-mill centre, having bought its first as recently as June 2018. Operations director Phillip Taylor says that…
15/ 09/ 20
Lubrication Equipment Manufacturer Produces Prismatic and Pressed Parts on New Lathe
Established in 1942, Coventry-based Adams Lubetech is member of a leading European group of specialist manufacturers of single-point and centralised lubrication equipment for OEMs in the food and beverage industry,…
28/ 07/ 20
Used Sliding-head Lathe Receives Full Support from the Manufacturer
Despite starting out more than 25 years ago, Dudley-based TWP Manufacturing opened its CNC machine shop as recently as the beginning of 2019 to produce in-house most of the components needed…
17/ 03/ 20
Plastics machining specialists invest in sliding-head lathe with novel chipbreaking software
Gloucester subcontractor Stratos Precision Engineering, a majority of whose business comes from machining plastics, has strengthened and diversified its turning department with the addition of its first sliding-headstock lathe, a…
21/ 01/ 20
Pump Manufacturer Installs First Sliding-head Lathe
Two-year payback expected by bringing subcontracted work in-house One of the UK’s largest pump manufacturers shipping more than 200,000 units per year, Charles Austen Pumps (www.charlesausten.com), has invested in its…
15/ 11/ 19
Chance purchase of a second-hand lathe triggers transformation of subcontractor’s machine shop
When a customer of subcontractor Apsley Precision Engineering suddenly stopped manufacturing components in-house, one of the redundant machine tools, a Miyano fixed-head, twin-spindle, single-turret lathe, was purchased by the contract…
