Yamazaki Mazak's ongoing attendance at Southern Manufacturing affirms the Worcester-based machine tool builder's belief in the strength of the show's target audience. At this year's show, held on the 11 and 12 February 2009 at Farnborough's Five exhibition venue, Mazak will be displaying its Hyper Quadrex 150MSY, which represents the latest in twin-turret, twin-spindle, turning centre technology.I

The Deckel Maho DMF 260 Linear travelling column machining centre from DMG is designed for high levels of productivity and greater production flexibility. It has the inherent stability of a mineral-composite bed and a high-speed rapid traverse rate of 80m/min to its swivelling spindle, which is derived from the use of linear drives to cover the 2600mm X-axis and 700mm in Y- and Z-axis.The machine

Five years ago Dave Malin set himself up as a one-man subcontract machinist having bought a Citizen L20 CNC sliding head lathe to perform one-hit machining cycles on parts up to 20mm diameter. Soon after setting up DJM Precision Engineering Malin was working all hours of the day and night and quickly became confident enough to install a second Citizen from NC Engineering, now Citizen Machinery UK,

XYZ Machine Tools has revealed that its Proturn SLX 555 manual/CNC lathe has enabled Alken Engineering to meet an urgent customer enquiry for 3m long En9 shaft components. For Paul Coverley, managing director of Alken Engineering, the enquiry meant it was time to translate his intention of buying a larger capacity CNC turning machine into immediate action.The downside was that the machine tool sup

Huntsman Advanced Materials has launched Araldite Digitalis, a rapid manufacturing machine capable of producing large numbers of parts simultaneously at speed and with high accuracy. Araldite Digitalis is based on new micro-electro mechanical system (Mems) technology.At its heart is an MLS Microlightswitch, a new exposure system operating via a computer-controlled micro-mechanical shutter system t

According to Germany’s energy information service EID (Hamburg), processors in Italy saw an average 22% jump in electricity costs from July 2007-July 2008. In Germany, energy costs, depending on region and provider, went up by an average of 8%-15% for the same period. Overall, extruder manufacturer KraussMaffei Berstorff (Munich, Germany) says that in the last eight years, prices of industri

Huntsman Advanced Materials has launched Araldite Digitalis, a rapid manufacturing machine capable of producing large numbers of parts simultaneously at speed and with high accuracy. Araldite Digitalis is based on new micro-electro mechanical system (Mems) technology.At its heart is an MLS Microlightswitch, a new exposure system operating via a computer-controlled micro-mechanical shutter system t