The theme on Hurco’s stand will be programming simplicity, where the company will be showcasing the latest software deployed on its proprietary Max5 control.

Present at Stand G200 will be one of the company’s 19” colour touchscreen controls. On demonstration will be the latest solid model import option, which is said to be capable of reducing programming times even further. Whereas previously only 2D DXF files could be loaded directly into the control to create conversational data blocks, it is now possible to import 3D STEP or IGES files, including splines and Z depths.
For further information www.hurco.co.uk

Yamazaki Mazak will be taking its newly developed fully simultaneous five-axis machining centre, the CV5-500, to Southern Manufacturing.

The CV5-500 has been designed and built at Mazak’s European manufacturing plant in Worcester, specifically for customers engaged in, or aspiring to, five-axis machining. Offered at a competitive price point, the machine has a high-rigidity bridge construction with a fully supported trunnion table. Furthermore, a newly developed 12,000 rpm spindle, capable of a peak performance of 18.5 kW and 119.4 Nm, makes the machine suitable for a wide range of materials.
For further information www.mazakeu.co.uk

Matsuura Machinery will use Southern Manufacturing to show a MX-520 five-axis CNC machining centre and HP Jet Fusion 580 3D colour printer on Stand E260.

The machines will be working in harmony to demonstrate the real-world benefits of current production strategies being supplied by the company to UK manufacturers. Matsuura’s MX-520 will be utilising fixtures produced on the HP Multi-Jet Fusion 4200, demonstrating the time and cost savings generated by printing work-holding systems in hours rather than waiting weeks, sometimes months, for conventional metal solutions to be supplied.
For further information www.matsuura.co.uk

Sales and technical support for the Hardinge Super Precision (SP) range of turning and turn/grinding machines is now being handled in the UK and Ireland by Jones & Shipman Hardinge.

Based at its UK headquarters at Clifton Dunsmore near Rugby, Jones & Shipman Hardinge represents the interests of sister companies in the Hardinge group – Kellenberger, Hauser, Voumard, Tschudin and Usach – and now the SP products – which were previously sold and supported from Germany. In the UK the company also represents the interests of Okamoto grinding solutions.
As Jones & Shipman Hardinge UK managing director Mike Duignan explains, while filling a niche roll, SP machines are recognised for their calibre: “Machines in the SP and SP Quest range can offer combined turning and grinding systems specifically designed to optimise the production of precision, complex parts. As well as their turning capability, the machines can be equipped with grinding spindles, providing the potential to maintain a continuous accuracy of 3 µm over extended periods of operation.”
Super Precision machines offer a compact footprint and, with turnkey packages or optional automation, can operate as a stand-alone machine or within a multi-cell environment.
“These machines are a perfect complement to our well established capability across the spectrum of grinding,”
adds Duignan. “They allow us to offer an optimal solution for high precision, complex parts production, be it grinding, hard turning or a combination of both.”
For further information www.hardinge.com

Alan Arthur has been appointed at the GTMA’s chief technical officer (CTO). Arthur is a highly qualified and experienced engineering manager, with over 35 years’ experience in supply-chain management and project planning.

His commercial and international experience embraces a large range of technical disciplines and best practice across manufacturing and engineering. He completed
his post-graduate degree in the study of additive manufacture, an area of interest to the GTMA.
For further information www.gtma.co.uk