Many manufacturing companies are aiming to ensure their production processes are environmentally conscious and, ultimately, climate-neutral. With its latest sustainability strategy, the Chiron Group and its UK partner, the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) are both playing a role in these efforts. The Chiron Group will soon be carbon-neutral, aided by a number of initiatives. For instance, the German machine tool manufacturer will expand its existing capacity for machine refurbishments and use additive manufacturing to broaden its range of applications in the automated repair of forging dies. All of this technology is now available from ETG.

Among the objectives of the Chiron Group sustainability strategy is to improve energy efficiency at all levels on a continuous basis. With long-term investments in heat recovery and photovoltaic systems, and the commitment to cover any additional electricity requirements exclusively from renewable sources, the Chiron Group’s manufacturing and assembly processes will be climate-neutral by the end of 2022.
For further information www.engtechgroup.com

Northern Industrial, a provider of new, reconditioned and obsolete parts and repair services, first opened an office in Mexico City in December 2020, its first location outside the UK prior to launching its German site earlier this year. The company has now launched fully in Mexico under the brand NI Controls and moved into new, fully-equipped premises in Querétaro, where it is looking to boost its workforce further to make Mexico the central hub for the entire Americas. Northern Industrial’s central operation in the UK stocks over 200,000 parts numbers, sourced from over 1350 manufacturers.
For further information www.nicontrols.com/uk

CNC lathe and turning centre manufacturer CMZ might have taken the plunge with that headline, but the company says it never spoke a truer word. When CMZ stopped to think about it; the surface area of all of its manufacturing plants exceeds the size of 32 Olympic swimming pools. All of the company’s strategic plans aim at increasing its production capacity. After setting up new manufacturing and assembly plants, CMZ’s production muscle keeps getting stronger.

Some of those ‘swimming pools’ are occupied by the company’s two assembly plants. The longest-serving of those two is located at CMZ’s central headquarters in Zaldibar. Three lathes per day leave the plant, delivered to different clients spread out mainly across Europe. The Seuner plant opened its doors in 2015. It is in this facility that CMZ puts together large lathes of the TD series, without doubt marking a watershed moment in its production process.

CMZ’s philosophy is based on ‘homemade’; the company likes to control each stage of the manufacturing process. It believes that by doing this, the end result is better quality as CMZ has greater control over production, from start to finish. The company clearly saw that putting this motto into practice meant operating with its own manufacturing plants. Precitor, Meydi, Mecaninor and now Neoprec and Cafisur, are further best proof of this strategy.

Between CMZ’s machining plants, electrical cabinet assembly plants and its own industrial sheet metal business, which produces covers for the lathes, the company can say that it controls the process with a product that is 90% its own.
For further information www.cmz.com