Enginuity Skills Awards winners take a bow

The best of British engineering and manufacturing grasped glory at the Enginuity Skills Awards 2025 in a glittering ceremony hosted at the Park Plaza London Riverbank in London. Mohammed Mahmood, from Stoke, was deemed by the judging panel of industry luminaries, to be the Best of British Engineering – the winner of winners, having picked up the Best T Level student category earlier in the evening. Arriving in England with limited English and no industry experience, Mahmood pursued a T Level in Building Services Engineering to gain technical knowledge and practical skills.

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SYSPRO grows smart manufacturing prowess

SYSPRO, a global software provider for the manufacturing and distribution industries, has acquired riteSOFT, a US-based developer of mobile warehouse and time tracking and scheduling software for small to mid-sized manufacturers and distributors. The acquisition strengthens SYSPRO’s smart manufacturing capabilities and advances its strategy to offer integrated, industry-specific solutions that accelerate time-to-value and simplify operations for customers worldwide. SYSPRO users will benefit from a unified solution stack with aligned product roadmaps that improves operational efficiency and deployment speed.

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United Machining Solutions Launches

Following a strategic acquisition process that is now complete, United Grinding Group and GF Machining Solutions (previously a division of Georg Fischer AG) have become United Machining Solutions. The new group, which has 15 brands, around 5000 employees at 50+ locations and total global sales in excess of $1.5bn, says it is now one of the largest machine tool manufacturers in the world.

Retaining its headquarters in Bern, Switzerland, the new group will have two divisions: United Grinding for the Mägerle, Blohm, Jung, Studer, Schaudt, Mikrosa, Walter, Ewag and IRPD brands; and United Machining for the Agie Charmilles, Charmilles, Mikron Mill, Liechti, Step Tec and System 3R brands. United Machining Solutions plans to showcase eight world firsts at the EMO 2025 exhibition in Hanover this September.

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YMT named UK dealer for ROBODRILL

Industrial automation specialist FANUC UK has named YMT as its official UK partner for the ROBODRILL range of compact CNC machining centres. Serving customers across the Midlands and south of England, YMT’s offering now encompasses the full range of ROBODRILL machining centres, noted for their accuracy, speed and precision when automating tasks such as drilling, milling, cutting and polishing.

The two companies have forged a close relationship over a number of years, primarily as a result of YMT incorporating FANUC industrial robots into its CNC metal-cutting solutions. This next step reflects a natural evolution in their partnership, enabling more precision machining companies to take advantage of the benefits offered by the FANUC ROBODRILL.

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Arden Group reaches 60

The Arden Group, which was first launched by two brothers in the cellar of their family home, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Brothers Frank and Philip Poynter first set up a die-making workshop with just one saw and a workbench in the 10 sq ft cellar of their mother’s semi-detached house in Bredbury, Stockport, in 1964. Today, the Arden Group comprises three specialist divisions: Arden Dies, Arden Engraving and Arden Software. Arden Dies says it has become the UK’s largest die-maker, manufacturing specialist dies and tooling for packaging and cartons.

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