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Precision Aerospace Acquires Tornos Turning Centre
When Precision Aerospace Component Engineering Ltd (PACE) was looking to update its plant list with a new turning centre to produce bolts for the aerospace industry, the Braintree based company found the solution it required at the recent Tornos UK open house. The aerospace manufacturer that produces components for actuators, filter systems, motors, generators and engines for commercial airline ...
TaeguTec Supports Growth at Prestigious Manufacturer
When Formaplex started business in 2001, its ambition was to become 'the best machining & tool making company in Europe'. The Havant based company has remained true to its ambition and is now one of, if not the most successful and prestigious in Europe. Formaplex has evolved to employ over 120 staff with a turnover in excess of Ł25m. The bedrock for success has been the philosophy of a fa ...
Exactaform Opens New Vollmer Machine Shop for PCD Cutting Tools
As one of the UK's leading manufacturers of specialised PCD tooling for aerospace, motorsport and general engineering applications, Exactaform has now expanded its operation to maintain its exceptional customer service levels. The Coventry based manufacturer has recently extended its operation with a new 4500sq/ft facility adjacent to its current operation. The new unit is a dedicated spec ...
Tornos Delivers Logical Solution to Unicut
Running its machine shop 24 hours a day to accommodate existing business and an influx of new contracts, Unicut Precision has now acquired two Tornos Gamma turning centres to service its influx of new business and resolve potential capacity issues. With over 20 fixed and sliding head turning centres on the shop floor producing tens of thousands of turned parts each week, the Hertfordshire busin ...
TaeguTec Cuts Costs at Eaton Hydraulics
Like any globally renowned manufacturer, the Eaton Corporation is continually striving to reduce costs and create efficiency savings whilst further enhancing the component quality, that makes such a company the benchmark in its industry sector. As part of the global group, Eaton Limited in Havant, is the ‘Fluid Power Division’ that is achieving this holy grail with the support of cutting tools fro ...
Faster and as Accurate as Ever
Ernst & Landerer GmbH is a family owned company with a proud tradition of serving as a partner to leading automotive gearbox manufacturers. The company actively looks towards innovative technologies to improve their products rather than rely on structures and proc-esses that have developed over time. Achieving increasingly faster speeds and keeping processes economical, while delivering the same a ...
Walter Investment Delivers Growth for ITC
With the manufacturing sector exiting the recession, Industrial Tooling Corp (ITC) has positioned itself well for growth with an investment in four new grinding centres throughout 2011. The Tamworth based manufacturer made this significant investment on the back of overwhelmingly increasing demand for its innovative new cutting tools. ITC has committed extensive resources to the development of ...
Tornos Makes The µ As Standard
A robot used in spinal surgery can now guarantee the positioning of pedicle screws to within a few microns. This is credit to precision actuators and the respective ball bearing components on the hexapod robot being produced by Micro Precision Systems (MPS) with an EvoDeco 16 turning centre from Tornos. MPS manufactures micro-precision ball bearings and ball-bearing mounted precision systems fo ...
Tornos Opens Up Capacity at Machined Component Systems
Steering its way through a relentless recession and coming out the other side with remarkable success has been a difficult journey for Redditch based Machined Component Systems (MCS); a journey that according to Managing Director Mr Warren Gray has tested and proven the true character of the staff, the management and the company's ability to work closely with its customers. The resulting succe ...
Accuracy in the Micron Realm
Miniaturization of tools and cutting sizes, faster machining speeds and contact sensitive coatings, provide an ever-increasing challenge in terms of tool monitoring. As a result, machines used for micro manufacturing now feature almost exclusively non-contact laser measuring systems, since they are the only way to detect and compensate for all factors influencing tools while machining. An impor ...
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