Renishaw plc has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2011 in the Innovations category, the company’s fourteenth Queen’s Award since its formation in 1973, and its fifth in just eight years.

Getting the right cut is always important, and no less so for a turning application within a multi-tasking machining centre. Yet these machines present unique cutting tool challenges for turning. “There has been a lot of attention given to milling in turning centres, but turning on machining centres is innovative,” says Chuck Birkle, vice president, sales and marketing for Mazak Corp., Florence, KY (Mazak Canada is based in Cambridge, ON)

Postgraduates studying for doctoral research degrees in manufacturing at the University of Warwick will soon have an added facility at their disposal, following the decision by one of the university’s academic departments, WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group), to install a seventh machine tool from longstanding technical partner, DMG.

Close to 300 people gathered at Canada’s newest machine tool builder’s facility last week to celebrate its grand opening.

Most components machined in shops around the world call for reliability in the end product, but few demand the absolute confidence of performance as those produced for the aerospace industry. Nowhere is this better understood than at Mesotec Inc., a manufacturer of precision aircraft components based in Sherbrooke, QC

Konecranes Machine Tool Service has extensive experience integrating numerous makes and models of CNC and PLC controls to a variety of complex and conventional machines, including, but not limited to: gantry mills, horizontal boring mills,… [ Full Story ]

Japan’s Mori Seiki has said it is in negotiations intending to lead to a joint venture in China, investing equally with Germany’s Gildemeister and China’s Shenyang Machine Tool Co.

SolidWorks will focus on Delcam’s Gold Partner CAM system, Delcam for SolidWorks, in a webinar on 27 April.

Yamazaki Mazak has launched the seventh generation of its Integrex range of multi-tasking machines, designed to complete all turning and machining operations from raw material to finished component. According to Mazak, the Integrex has become the most successful multi-tasking machine in its class, with more than 10,000 machines being sold across the world since the first-generation machine was introduced in 1983

When staff from the University of Ottawa machine shop went looking for a new vertical machining centre a few years back, they had some important considerations in mind. The main consideration was space.