Category: Company News

The landscape of the working environment has changed rapidly in order to cope with the pressures of the Coronavirus pandemic. In response, Vanilla Electronics, a market leader in supply chain management for the electronics manufacturing industry, has worked closely with Altus to find safety solutions. COVID-19 is here for the foreseeable future which means businesses […]

As a global leader in premium high-precision tooling systems and solutions, BIG KAISER has now expanded its jet-through hydraulic chuck line to include the BCV interface and additional inch sizes. Available in the UK from Tamworth cutting tool experts, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC), the new tooling systems are ideal for the automotive, aerospace, medical and […]

A Midlands precision stamping specialist is set to play a significant role in the development of cleaner mobility solutions. Brandauer has been selected to be part of a new consortium led by tech company Saietta, which has won an Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) grant to fast-track production on new electric propulsion motors for use in […]

Just one year before Great Lakes Custom Tool Manufacturing Inc. (GLCT) celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2019, the Wisconsin based company was marking other milestones in its prestigious history with the opening of a 20,000 square foot factory extension and the arrival of five additional VOLLMER machines. For anyone who knows the Peshtigo business that […]

Purpose built and designed with significantly more capacity, efficiency and data harvesting to drive growth. Treatt, an ingredients manufacturer and solutions provider to the global flavour, fragrance and consumer goods markets, has partnered with Siemens Digital Industries (DI) to build a world class digital manufacturing facility at its £41m new global headquarters. Treatt’s purpose-built site […]

Sinumerik One Dynamics – three technology packages to increase the efficiency of CNC users when programming in the shopfloor and executing CAM-generated CNC programs Top Surface and Top Speed Plus for excellent motion control and perfect workpiece surfaces With the software version NCU-SW 6.14, Siemens is launching three powerful technology packages exclusively for the CNC […]

Siemens SIMATIC-S5, the iconic workhorse of automation, is being put out to pasture. Since its launch more than 40 years ago, the groundbreaking programmable logic controller (PLC) has automated countless machines and processes and transformed production in every industry imaginable. S5’s main achievement was that it offered factory engineers a significant increase in computing power. […]

This year marks three quarters of a century since PCL manufactured and patented the first ever “Made in Sheffield” coupling, which has become an essential piece of kit in workshops all over the world.  Ever since its invention, the PCL coupling has remained a notch above the competition, with a well-earned global reputation for being […]

Shoreham Port has invested in a fleet of 35 new Yale forklift trucks to support its timber logistics operation that is estimated to handle up to 20% of all UK timber imports. The £2m contract is the largest ever for supplier Solent Forklift Trucks, part of Forkway Group.   “We will discharge more than 100 […]

Identifying a business opportunity is one thing but turning an opportunity into a profit centre is quite another. When the founder of Wuxi Fortune Technology Co., Ltd. decided to pursue manufacturing certification with one of the world’s largest automotive technology powerhouses, he chose Tornos as his partner for turning machines and the respective application and […]