Expo Manufactura 2020 will take place on 11-13 February in Monterrey, Mexico.

The show is set to host a plethora of industry solutions and innovations, as exhibited by national and international companies. In fact, more than 350 exhibitors are expected to fill 17,246 sq m of floor space. Additionally, over 13,350 visitors are set to attend Expo Manufactura, which will also play host to a comprehensive conference programme.
In the three days of the show, over 500 machines will be working in real time, providing live demonstrations, with more than 160 of these machines weighing in excess of 300 kg. Among the machine types on display will be those for milling, turning, waterjet cutting, laser cutting, plasma cutting, welding and additive processes.
For further information www.expomanufactura.com.mx

SteelFab 2020 is set to run on 13-16 January in Sharjah, where nearly 300 exhibitors from over 20 countries are expected to fill 11,000 sq m of exhibition space.

Over the course of the three days, the organiser is expecting close to 7000 visitors from around 70 different countries to attend the show. Special focus areas will include welding and cutting, machine tools, tube and pipe, and wear resistance. SteelFab will also host seminars, technical presentations and live displays.
It has been 16 years since the Gulf region’s steel fabrication and metalworking industry changed the way it did business – when SteelFab made its debut. A lot has changed in the intervening years, and the event continues to steer the industry through the ups and downs of the economy, and the market. Over the past 16 years SteelFab has grown with the industry and, along the way, expanded its geographical footprint far and wide.
For further information https://steelfabme.com/

Czech Republic-based Fermat Group has signed an agency agreement that will give Broadbent Stanley the exclusive UK rights to the full range of Fermat’s large-capacity horizontal floor and table mills, as well as its grinding machines.

Box-way, heavy-duty, horizontal boring machines from Fermat range in size from 1200 mm to 28,100 mm in the X axis, with up to 6000 mm in the Y axis. Similarly, the company’s grinding machines provide extensive capacity, with between-centre distances of up to 6000 mm and a capability to grind parts weighing up to 5000 kg.
According to Broadbent Stanley, the company will be focussing its sales activity for the Fermat product range on the oil and gas, rail, power generation, marine, and yellow goods sectors. “The addition of these products to the Broadbent Stanley portfolio means we are the only company offering European-built, heavy-duty, large-capacity mills and grinders in the in the UK and Ireland,” says Graham Thomas, managing director.”
For further information www.broadbentstanley.co.uk

It has been 16 years since the Gulf region’s steel fabrication and metalworking industry changed the way it did business – when SteelFab made its debut.

A lot has changed in the intervening years, and the event continues to steer the industry through the ups and downs of the economy, and the market. Over the past 16 years SteelFab has grown with the industry and, along the way, expanded its geographical footprint far and wide.
At SteelFab 2020 (Sharjah, 13-16 January), nearly 300 exhibitors from over 20 countries are expected to fill six halls across 11,000 sq m of space. Over the course of the three days, the organiser is expecting close to 7000 visitors from around 70 different countries to attend the show. Special focus areas will include welding and cutting, machine tools, tube and pipe, and wear resistance. SteelFab will also host seminars, technical presentations and live displays.
For further information https://steelfabme.com/

Delivering a balanced machining portfolio that matches present and predicted workflows is the current investment policy of A Fawcett Precision Engineers. This ethos at the Elland, West Yorkshire company gained fresh impetus when Joanne Thompson took over the running of the company following her father’s retirement in 2009.

“We had a wide range of lathes when I took over the business, but all of them were manual and many were getting old and creating bottlenecks in production,” she says. “To address this, in 2012 we bought a second-hand CNC lathe, along with a new SLX 555 ProTurn lathe from XYZ Machine Tools. And, while the XYZ SLX 555 is still with us and working well, the old CNC lathe had seen better days and needed replacing.”
As a result, March 2019 saw the arrival of a new XYZ TC400 turning centre with Siemens 828D ShopTurn control. The machine has a maximum swing of 600 mm and is the largest turning centre in the XYZ range.
During the summer, following Thompson’s participation and graduation from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme, the incentive and confidence was there for more investment, resulting in a further order being placed with XYZ Machine Tools. The company ordered the latest ProTurn lathe, an RLX425 with RX ProtoTrak control, which was delivered in July.
“You have to be realistic and confident about what you can do for customers and not promise something you can’t deliver, which is why we’ve continued to focus on low-to-medium batch quantities in sectors where we have extensive experience,” says Thompson. “The XYZ machines meet our needs perfectly for this type of work. Having the machines has made us more cost-effective, reduced our labour costs and helped us become more competitive.”
For further information www.xyzmachinetools.com