Following the expansion of space at Bridgwater-based M-CNC, the company has committed £2.75m to purchasing eight DMG Mori machine tools and automation.

The machines will provide M-CNC with the ability to cut large five-axis parts up to 2.5 m long and 750 mm diameter. A rapid response cell will be created for a 10-day turnaround of orders. This latest investment keeps the company on track to triple in size since its launch in 2011. M-CNC already employs 17 people with four apprentices. The company is also investing in Edgecam CADCAM software, and Javelin ERP and MRP software.
For further information www.m-cnc.co.uk

Alex Holmes has been appointed head of industrial product management at Fuchs Lubricants. Holmes is now responsible for all of the products in Fuchs’ industrial portfolio, as well as studying the market potential for new products.

He has a Masters degree in chemistry from Durham University and previously worked in a similar role at Lubrizol. Fuchs has an extensive industrial catalogue that includes oils and lubricants for the metalworking industry. Richard Rogers, head of industrial specialities, says: “Alex has in-depth experience and we are confident he can help us push forward with our industrial offering.”
For further information www.fuchs.com/uk

Derby-based Riverside Medical Packaging, which has tapped into the capabilities of the Engineering Technology Group for a Quaser MV 184 PH to help support a ramp up in volumes and ensure its machining shop can meet growing demand from customers in the UK, EU,
India and Israel.

Riverside, a healthcare packaging specialist, is targeting up to 40 additional jobs and looking to more than quadruple sales of its ‘shawpak’ thermoforming machinery as the medical sector strives for more cost effective packaging solutions. The company has invested nearly £100,000 in developing a turnkey solution for the Quaser vertical machining centre, which utilises novel spindle technology, the latest Heidenhain controls, a newly developed grease replenishing system and two touch probe measuring systems from Blum-Novotest.
“As part of the expansion, we needed a vertical machining centre that offered us speed, accuracy and the ability to easily set and manufacture a variety of parts for use in our ‘shawpak’ machines,” states works and engineering director Alan Wade.” After much consideration and searching the sector for the best option, we decided on the Quaser MV 184 PH. It took just six weeks to get the machine into our Derby facility, signed off and producing various parts in volumes ranging from 2000 to more than 35,000 per annum. The MV 184 PH comes with greater memory, the latest Heidenhain controls and a grease replenishing system that makes lights-out manufacturing relatively easy.”
For further information www.engtechgroup.com