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From Valve Seats to Raptors
When John Inglis founded Exactaform Ltd in 1979, he was a one-man operation making carbide tooling for the automotive industry. Today, the company employs over 100 people, serves more than 500 customers across four continents, has created upwards of 30,000 unique tools, and is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading independent PCD tooling manufacturers. Central to every chapter of that growt ...
On the right track with hyperMILL
Established in 1947, Howells Railway Products Ltd is one of the UK rail industry's leading manufacturers. The Manchester-based company has evolved over almost 80 years into a precision specialist, supplying over 1,000 product lines to major rail operators, OEMs, and infrastructure owners across six continents. Customers such as Network Rail, Alstom, Siemens, Thales, Bombardier, and Hitachi rel ...
Efficient machining of V8 and V12 diesel engines
Tatra Trucks is said to be the oldest manufacturer of road and off-road vehicles and the second oldest manufacturer of lorries with internal combustion engines in the world. It is now bringing its engine production up to the latest standards. A production cell with three Heckert HEC 800 machining centres, automated by a pallet system to increase efficiency and reduce the space requirement to almos ...
Manufacturing solutions for turbine housings
In the aviation and energy sectors, turbine manufacturing companies rely on Starrag machines because they are among the most powerful and precise solutions the market has to offer. This applies not only to the manufacture of engine blades and blisks, but also to turbine housings. Decades of experience have gone into the wide range of Starrag machine tools to offer solutions for the entire manufact ...
TaeguTec Drives Productivity At Mathison
A decades-long relationship between a Gosport-based precision engineering company and cutting tool specialist TaeguTec demonstrates that the right combination of tooling expertise and new machine tools can unlock substantial productivity gains. Mathison Engineering Ltd, established in the 1980s, has evolved from a one-man operation to become a respected precision engineering business serving th ...
Sustainable Solution Transforms Tooling Performance
Margins are measured in microns and seconds in subcontract machining, and every process variable has a cost implication that demands scrutiny. Yet one of the most critical elements, cutting fluid, can be overlooked. At Numachine Ltd, that oversight has been addressed through a partnership with Oemeta UK, which has delivered measurable improvements in tool life, component cleanliness, and operation ...
PTG Precision Automates Production with Dugard SMEC
PTG Precision Engineers Ltd, a precision engineering specialist with over 40 years of experience serving the nuclear, aerospace, and energy sectors, has taken a significant step towards production automation with the installation of an SMEC NS2000 bar-fed turning centre supplied by Dugard. The investment represents the company's first foray into automated machining and comes in response to a g ...
Vertical grinder blows wind of change through turbine industry
The establishment of Zhejiang Tianma Bearing Group Co., Ltd. in 1987 coincided with the ‘golden age’ in which the Chinese precision bearing industry was rapidly developing. With its persistent pursuit of technological innovation and strict control over product quality, Tianma Bearing has quickly risen to become an essential player in the global bearing industry. Tianma Bearing is the only prec ...
Circularity from a single source
Raw materials are finite. This realisation is no longer new, but its consequences constantly demand sustainable solutions from manufacturers. Mechanical manufacturing is constantly looking for new ways to harmonise productivity with energy efficiency and resource conservation, without compromising on quality. This also applies to the recycling of solid carbide tools used in mechanical production. ...
Revolutionising Productivity in Precision Industries
In today's high-precision manufacturing landscape, the aerospace, medical, electronics, and small part processing industries face pressure to maintain tolerances while reducing costs and addressing skilled labour shortages. Sliding head machining technology, especially Swiss-type machines, is essential for producing intricate, small-diameter components. TaeguTec's WINSWISS line and expande ...
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