EDITORIAL ROUNDUP

End-of-Year Open House at Hurco

Hurco’s annual end-of-year open house exhibition will be held this year at its High Wycombe showroom on 2 and 3 December 2025, from 08:30 to 16:30 each day. Lunch will be provided, as well as refreshments throughout the event. In addition to a showroom full of new Hurco CNC machine tools under power and cutting metal, there is the added attraction of up to 19 primary Hurco suppliers in attendance.

Taking centre stage this year will be four different five-axis machining centre configurations, allowing visitors to compare the benefits and limitations of each option: a three-axis VMX60Ti  with Kitagawa TT182 rotary-tilt table; the cantilever-design VC500i; the swivel-head VMX42SRTi; and a VMX30Ui trunnion machine fully automated with a Hurco ProCobot ProFeeder-X, 10-drawer, heavy-duty system.

Register at www.hurco.com

Sheffield Forgemasters Opens Training Facility

Sheffield Forgemasters has formally opened a 6700 sq ft training and development facility
to upskill its apprentices for the next generation of nuclear-grade engineering. The facility
was formally opened by company chair, Admiral Sir Tim Fraser, who unveiled no less than
18 new machine tools on site, including a state-of-the-art five-axis mill-turn machine.
Sheffield Forgemasters has partnered with the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre
to deliver a four-year engineering training contract, which will see the placement of a
permanent engineering skills coach at the facility. Jay Shaw, head of machine shops at
Sheffield Forgemasters, says: “We’re now able to prepare trainees for the next generation
of machines and digital operating systems at our new 30,000 sq m machining hall.”
More information www.sheffieldforgemasters.com

PTG Holroyd Expands Rotor Plant

PTG Holroyd Precision Rotors, the specialist helical component, screw and rotor
manufacturing division of Precision Technologies Group (PTG), has increased the capacity of
the company’s positive-displacement blower screw production line at its facility in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. Initially opened in 2018, the Spartanburg site was the result of
significant investment by PTG.
This latest expansion at Spartanburg comes in response to a 30% increase in blower screw
sales year on year. Running alongside the conventional helical rotor and component
manufacturing line, the company’s blower line is equipped to precision-mill components as
small as 125 mm in diameter and 300 mm in length, right up to 300 mm in diameter and
1000 mm in length.
More information www.holroyd.com

November Open House for World Machinery

CNC machine tool supplier World Machinery is set to host a November open house event at
its headquarters and showroom in Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Taking place on Friday 26 and
Saturday 27 November, the company will be showcasing a number of key innovations,
including: Bodor T230A tube lasers; all-electric press brakes; Bodor i7 flat-bed fibre laser
cutters; deburring machines; and handheld fibre laser welding equipment. World Machinery
will have its technical team – alongside Bodor technicians – on hand to field any questions.
The company’s finance manager will also be present to help with figures, if required.
More information www.worldmc.co.uk

Stewart Lane Named New MTA President

The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA), the UK’s leading trade body for the
manufacturing technology sector, has appointed Stewart Lane, Renishaw’s head of EMEA
business development, as its new president. A proven leader for the manufacturing sector,
Lane brings a wealth of technical expertise, commercial insight and industry experience to
the role. 
With a degree in manufacturing systems engineering and 25 years of experience at
Renishaw, Lane has held a wide range of roles at the global FTSE250 engineering business.
He also spent several years working within quality and management functions for a number
of French and Swedish industrial businesses and speaks both languages fluently.
More information www.mta.org.uk