With the aim of providing digital services in a quicker, more targeted manner, Mapal will incorporate the business activities of its subsidiary c-Com GmbH into the company structure on 1 January 2025. Mapal will also take on c-Com’s employees, who will continue their work in Mapal’s Machines & Services Division. c-Com was founded in 2017 to drive modernisation, interconnectivity and automation in the metalworking industry through digital solutions. The company contributes higher productivity with its open cloud c-Com platform and accompanying digitalisation services.

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A leading UK manufacturing figure is now the chair of the automotive group within Euroforge. Steve Morley, current president of the Confederation of British Metalforming (CBM), took up the influential role at the association’s autumn summit in Milan on 21 October. He is now responsible for developing a strategy to tackle some of the major issues impacting European automotive forgers, including the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), fluctuating energy prices and the availability of material across the supply chain.

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Unison Ltd, the inventor of all-electric tube manipulation, is now offering mandrel-free (empty bending) rotary draw tube and pipe bending machines from Mackma of Italy, alongside its own product range. “We recognise that not every company requires the absolute ‘minimal ovality’ or speed of production that mandrel bending provides,” explains joint managing director Alan Pickering. “For that reason, earlier this year we set about choosing a manufacturer of high-quality mandrel-free tube benders that we would be happy to represent through our UK and USA divisions, and our global agent network.”

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