Graeme Thomas has been appointed business development director for the LPM (large prismatic machines) division of Geo Kingsbury.

He is responsible for promoting half of the eight German machine-tool agency lines that the company sells exclusively in the UK and Ireland: Burkhardt + Weber, F Zimmermann, SHW and Waldrich Coburg. Based at the company’s Birmingham office, Thomas joins from another multi-agency machine-tool distributor in the Midlands where he was key account director for the firm’s high-value machining centres.
For further information www.geokingsbury.com

Matsuura Machinery Ltd has appointed Nathan Whittaker to the position of area sales engineer. In his new role, Whittaker will be responsible for accelerating the potential of Matsuura’s product offering and supporting both existing and new customers in the west region and Wales.

He will report to Domenic Seminerio, national sales manager at Matsuura. Prior to joining the company, Nathan started his career as an apprentice engineer, toolmaker/CNC machinist and programmer/production engineer, before spending the last three years at Hoffman UK as an areas sales manager.
For further information www.matsuura.co.uk

Derbyshire-based Paul Fabrications, a Unitech Aerospace company, has dispensed with the solvent cleaning of nuclear components, replacing the process with a Turbex Pro 550 aqueous ultrasonic cleaning system.

The four-stage line is devoted to washing and drying all the nuclear components that support and hold stainless steel tubes containing uranium fuel pellets in the core of advanced gas reactors. All of these components were previously processed in a trichloroethylene closed system at the company’s Castle Donington manufacturing site.
For further information www.turbex.co.uk

Drive and control specialist Bosch Rexroth is launching an intuitive guidance system to help UK manufacturers network their assembly lines in preparation for Industry 4.0.

Available in March 2018, the modular system, known as ActiveAssist, operates alongside a production worker to streamline the assembly process and minimise errors. ActiveAssist guides the worker through each assembly stage using clear, visual instructions delivered through a projector, a pick-to-light system highlighting which components are needed, virtual surfaces, and data glasses (such as Google Glass).
For further information www.boschrexroth.com