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Koenigsegg Speeds-Up Production With Creaform
The Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg Automotive AB is a brand defined by painstaking precision and hand-crafting that results in an end product that most of us can only ever dream of owning. The entire business is built around enhancing vehicle performance and streamlining productivity, something that has undoubtedly been achieved considering the cars have a 0-100mph time that is shorter ...
ITC Delivers Seismic Change For Earthquake Subcontractor
The story for any subcontract business is evolve or dissolve. In the case of Surrey based GPR Ltd, its progression from 3 to 5-axis machine tools initially evolved with a bolt-on fourth axis for its Haas VF2 machines and now a full simultaneous high-end 5-axis machining centre from Matsuura. The investment in a full 5-axis machine was instigated by the Camberley company winning a two year contr ...
Subcontractor Dives Into Success With hyperMILL®
The path to setting up a subcontract machine shop couldn't have been more obscure than the tale of Ben Goodwin. Three years ago Ben was well remunerated for his dangerous skills as a deep sea welder and fabricator, but realising the danger and relatively short life expectancy, Ben quit the day job, bought a machining centre and set up BRG Developments. With little experience in a machine s ...
CAM Software Makes the Impossible Possible for Compressor Manufacturer
After five years of painstaking research followed by the last three years evolving his fledgling business, Olly Dmitriev has taken Vert Rotors and his patented range of compressors to market, launching the latest product at the recent IMTS Show in Chicago. The Edinburgh company that was founded by the award-winning entrepreneur has created a series of ultra compact, low vibration and extremely ...
Effective Toolholding - The BIG DAISHOWA Advantage
When it comes to machine and toolholder selection, many engineers either specify spindles to suit existing toolholders or they rely on suppliers to provide guidance. After all, do we really have time to work out whether it's best to select a CAT, Capto, HSK, BT, BMT, VDI or BBT system? The rise of toolholders marketed as 'face and taper' contact systems, has led Industrial Tooling Corp ...
Subcontractor Buys Kerf Waterjet Machine for Gear Cutting
Ten years ago, Hopwood Gear Ltd invested in an Oxy-Propane gas cutting machine from Kerf Developments. Owning a machine that run like a dream with exemplary service support for over a decade was two of the key reasons why the Oldham based subcontractor went back to Kerf for its latest machine, a twin-head waterjet machine. Founded in 1974, Hopwood Gear immediately set its stall out as a subcont ...
Digital Cutting Table Investment for Macfarlane Packaging
Macfarlane Packaging is the UK’s leading distributor of protective packaging and when the company invested £300,000 in a brand-new, state-of-the-art Innovation Laboratory at its Milton Keynes site, it was an exciting and interesting move. The 'Innovation Lab' was set up to meet the most demanding of packaging challenges. Working with the UK's leading retailers and third party logist ...
South Wales Subcontractor Has 'Steely Determination' to Succeed
Operating under the towering shadows of the chimneys at the much publicised Port Talbot Steel works, Formagrind is a subcontractor that is certainly playing its part in supporting the local manufacturing community. The company based in Neath has recently won a significant order that has led to the delivery of two Hurco machining centres and new tooling innovations from Mitsubishi Materials. Fo ...
Graphics Company Boxes Clever With DYSS
Thames Graphics is a business that has kept pace with the trends and developments of the large format print industry since the company was founded in 1984. At the start of the new millennium, the High Wycombe company was moving toward digital print. However, it was the acquisition of the business by husband and wife team Alex and Ivan that really drove the company through its most successful decad ...
Midland Aerospace Takes-Off With MAXX Machining from OPEN MIND
Just over 10 years ago, Midland Aerospace invested in a 5-axis DMG machining centre and OPEN MIND's hyperMILL CAM software to support the new investment. A decade later and the astounding growth at Midland has seen the arrival of an additional five 5-axis machine tools and an extra three seats of hyperMILL. In the last three years, the manufacturer of aero engine and wing structure componen ...
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