Industry News

Record sales throughout 2010 and 2011 have led to Brown and Holmes setting up an Apprentice Scheme in conjunction with South Staffs College in Tamworth. The company has worked closely with the college during 2011 to develop a scheme that is geared towards shopfloor requirements.

Delcam is to hold a workshop at Mazak’s European Technology Centre in Worcester on Wednesday 7th March showing how companies can use its FeatureCAM feature-based CAM software to maximise the productivity of their multi-tasking machine tools. Further information and a booking form is available at www.delcam.co.uk/featurecam2012.

A new VIPER (very impressive performance extreme removal) creep-feed grinder for machining predominantly nickel-based alloys in the manufacture of gas turbines has been introduced to the UK and across continental Europe and Scandinavia by Makino-NCMT Grinding Division, Thames Ditton, UK.

Roemheld (UK) Limited will be launching a wide range of new workholding and assembly products at MACH 2012, many of which will not have been seen before in the UK.

The readers of the US magazine “Photonic Tech Briefs” (PTB) have chosen Cognitens white light measurement systems as one of three products of the year 2011.

January 16, 2012 – All-electric tube bending machine specialist Unison will be demonstrating its innovative laser-controlled spring-back correction system at MACH 2012. Now available as a build-to-order option on any of the company’s bending machines for tubes from 50 mm diameter upwards, the system will be shown on a 76 mm model to highlight its benefits for manufacturers producing relatively large diameter tubular parts.