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News round-up ETG adds EDM & 3D printing technology
Yamazaki Mazak Corporation has
made important changes to its
leadership structure. President
Tomohisa Yamazaki is now the
company’s chairman, while vice
president Takashi Yamazaki has
been named as new president.
The transition, which took effect on
24 June to coincide with the
company’s 100th anniversary, is the
result of a long-planned leadership
evolution designed to position the
company for continued growth,
while cementing its ability to
support manufacturers around the
world. https://is.gd/yesapa
Sandvik has acquired a signi cant
stake in Italian metal additive
manufacturing (AM) rm Beam IT to
strengthen the company’s offer in
metal additive manufacturing. Beam
IT is a privately-owned company
with more than 20 years of
experience within metal AM. The
company is a trusted supplier of
advanced metal AM components to
demanding industries.
https://is.gd/wetati
Coventry-based Park Sheet Metal
(PSM) has been acquired by £38m
turnover (2017) private equity group
Rubicon Partners, adding to the
latter’s industrial portfolio.
https://is.gd/imobam
Spring, wire-form and assembly
specialist William Hughes has
expanded its range of services for
the manufacturing industry with the
acquisition of JK Metrology &
Quality Services of Liskeard.
JK Metrology is an established
Engineering Technology Group
(ETG) has acquired HK Holdings
and all of its subsidiaries from the
Pexion Group.
The deal means that ETG adds
additive manufacturing, including
3D Systems and Markforged, plus
Mitsubishi and OPS-Ingersoll EDM
machines – which include the
fastest EDM model in the world – to
its existing portfolio that includes
Chiron, Nakamura, Quaser,
Hardinge, Bavius and Stama.
Explains Martin Doyle, ETG
managing director: “3D printing, in
particular, has gone through the
‘proving’ stage and is now seen as
a viable way of manufacturing for
subcontractors and OEMs. As a
result, the surge in sales in the
marketplace is huge and expected
to hit $14bn globally by the end of
2020.”
Of the decision to acquire a
business and not just add more
brands, he says: “We had two
metrology and quality consultancy.
https://is.gd/gicura
The Manufacturing Technology
Centre (MTC) has signed a strategic
partnership with Irish Manufacturing
Research (IMR). This Anglo-Irish
link-up aims to increase research,
technology and skills transfer
between the two countries.
https://is.gd/socano
The University of Strathclyde’s
Advanced Forming Research
Centre (AFRC) has been named as
the UK spoke in a northwest Europe
ETG managing director Martin Doyle
choices. Look to take on existing
principals and agree new
distribution agreements or
purchase a company that is
already established in the sector
and can boast immediate access
to world-class brands and a whole
host of technical expertise with
their current staff.”
And the Pexion Group is well
known to ETG, in fact, as Doyle
explains: “Pexion Group is a key
account for ETG, with multiple CNC
project designed to transform the
machining sector, helping 1,300
SMEs to stimulate turnover and
employment through the uptake of
Industry 4.0 technologies.
https://is.gd/ozuzos
Previous Secretary of
State for Business,
Energy and
Industrial
Strategy, Greg
Clark, opened
the country’s
rst R&D testbed
facility
L-R: Juergen Maier,
dedicated to
helping UK
manufacturing
develop digital solutions.
https://is.gd/ozinac
Greg Clark
An £8.9 million centre to help
companies bene t from lightweight
manufacturing technology has been
of cially opened by Scotland’s First
Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. The
machines installed across its group
of companies. We knew it was
reviewing how to develop HK
Holdings, so decided we would
approach it about the possibility of
integrating it into our business.
“It’s a perfect t. We have a
nationwide network of customers
for CNC machining and
automation, and a lot of those
have a need for EDM machines
and additive manufacturing, and
this works the other way, too.”
Lightweight Manufacturing Centre
will develop lighter, more ef cient
components for high value
industries. https://is.gd/depopo
Jones & Shipman Hardinge’s UK
operation has relocated to a new
administration, distribution and
demonstration facility on
the Europark at Clifton
Dunsmore, just
outside Rugby.
https://is.gd/
ipeyok
Samuel Taylor
Limited (STL), a
Redditch-based metal
contacts and precision
metal pressings specialist, has
invested over £500,000 in new
machinery and factory space. The
investments are part of a focused
effort to increase capacity and
ef ciency, and include the purchase
and commissioning of a forming
machine (image, next column),
Hurco has opened a training and demonstration centre at Kirklees
College in West Yorkshire. An opening event on 3 July saw the
installation of an additional four WinMax dual-screen consoles to be used
within the classroom area of the facility, as well as a facelift of the current
three Hurco machine tools already in situ. Attending the opening were 19
visitors from 12 companies, with a mix of students wanting to learn about
machining and experienced Hurco users. Local engineering businesses
also came to see how the joint venture between Hurco and Kirklees
College might bene t their apprentices. https://is.gd/wiviju
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