Prototype and production tooling and plastic injection-moulding company, RP Technologies, has invested more than £130,000 on additional machinery.

The company has purchased a Borche 600-tonne injection-moulding machine to add to its suite of machinery in the West Midlands. The Borche will increase the company’s part size offering to components with a shot-weight capacity up to 2.3kg. This is RP’s second investment of the year, having already spent £250,000 on two sizeable Hurco CNC machining centres, a hot-plate welding machine and a mould simulation analysis software package.
For further information www.rptechnologies.co.uk

A metallurgy consultancy service, which aims to help firms save costs with advice on smarter manufacturing solutions, is now available at Kuka’s UK subcontract friction-welding facility.

Professor Kameel Sawalha has moved his independent laboratory business, Aston Microscopy & Engineering, to the site at Halesowen where Kuka joins components for manufacturers involved in a variety of industries. His expertise not only covers metallurgical and corrosion investigation, but failure analysis and materials selection.
For further information www.kuka.com

Deep-hole drilling specialist Mollart Engineering has captured international orders worth over £5m.

An order from one of the largest independent automotive manufacturers in North America, worth some £2.5m, will see Mollart supply four special purpose four- and six-spindle gun-drilling centres for producing oil galleries in transmission shafts. A further US order is for a Prismabore PRB 25 six-axis combination gun-drilling and machining centre, which is to be used for the deep-hole drilling of cooling holes in steel moulds. Mollart also reports that a two-spindle Drillsprint LD2-750 machine is going to China to drill holes 7-10 mm diameter by 600 mm deep in forged alloy steel diesel fuel rails.
For further information www.mollart.com

XYZ Machine Tools has ended its 2017/18 financial year with record figures of almost £31m for machines that have been delivered to customers and invoiced (excluding export sales).

This represents an increase of 20% over the previous year for the UK. The news comes as the company also announces the opening of a new showroom in Slough, serving the southern England region. To celebrate, an open day will take place at the Slough facility on 12 July (09:00-15:00).
The showroom has undergone a full refurbishment to bring it to the standard of XYZ’s other four showrooms across England, and replaces the Waltham Abbey site in Essex, which had been outgrown by the company.
For further information www.xyzmachinetools.com