Posted On - 09/12/2019
By Elumatec’s Neil Parton. In today’s Internet of Things environment, connectivity and integration are deemed key components of a successful strategy but having access to relevant information has always been a business need. It allows us to capitalise on our strengths and drive improvements. Using data to make informed decisions makes sense, but collecting and analysing that data has often...
Posted On - 14/10/2019
Neil Parton, Elumatec’s managing director of Elumatec, explains how software can unite automation and bespoke projects. Many people think of manufacturing efficiency and get an image in their heads of Henry Ford’s production line and his insistence that you could have your new Ford in any colour – providing it was black. Ford was onto something: he didn’t build an...
Posted On - 17/07/2019
By Ian Latimer, managing director of Emmegi (UK). First there was the Quadra L1, then the L2 and the L0, and now comes the launch of the Emmegi Quadra L3, a top of the range CNC machining centre for machining, cutting and drilling aluminium and light alloys, which has an incredible 20 axes. The L3 pushes beyond the capabilities of...
Posted On - 17/06/2019
Getting a PVCU window fabrication company off the ground requires perfect choreography of suppliers and the patience to play the waiting game for everything to fall into place. What if there were companies who worked together in unison to deliver exactly what you need, with unparalleled service and round the clock support? Liniar explains how it is entirely possible to...
Posted On - 17/06/2019
Software underpins efficient production but often comes with a tie-in to a specific system. That’s unless your machinery manufacturer has created its own platform. There are advantages to scale. FOM joined forces with Graf Synergy back in December 2016 to form the FOM-GS Group – but even before, the aluminium specialist was a heavyweight player in machinery manufacture. This scale...
Posted On - 17/06/2019
Glass Times met Andrew Taylor, managing director of Specialist Glass, to find out more about the investment into infrastructure and machinery, and the impact this will have on the company and its customers. Operating from its Huddersfield base, Specialist Glass is a structural glass manufacturer specialising in annealed, laminated and toughened bends, as well as manufacturing and supplying all types...
Posted On - 17/06/2019
By Forel. “Everything is based on the quality that a glass company can offer,” Roberto Pastore, owner of Italian glass processing company Vetrodomus, said. “Superior quality allows you to connect with higher-level customers and access higher-level orders. “How do you achieve quality? On the one hand, you rely on the skills and know-how of your company and employees, and on...
Posted On - 12/06/2019
Lee Dover, from Houghton International, expresses concerns about how machine downtime can have a drastic impact if a business is not prepared for it. No matter what industry you specialise in, machine downtime can have a major impact on your business; if you’re not prepared, technical errors in your appliances can bring significant costs to your productivity and negatively impact...
Posted On - 13/05/2019
By Steve Haines, Stuga. We hear more and more from the national press about the difficulty finding reliable labour, and this has been made worse by the result of the referendum from what we are told. I hear from much of the PVCU window and door fabrication industry that they struggle to get good people and this is creating problems...
Posted On - 27/04/2019
By Neil Parton, MD of Elumatec UK. Issues have a habit of expanding to fit the available space. What begins as a minor niggle in a business situation can become a problem that feels insurmountable – and that can happen very quickly. A classic example would be a temporary cash flow problem that becomes entrenched when it’s not handled wisely,...
Posted On - 17/01/2019
By Steve Haines, Stuga. The Stuga ZX5 automatic sawing and machining center was created early in 2017 but was originally to be the ZX4-MK7. The ZX4-MK6 was a well-established product, selling and working well but the time had come to upgrade it to incorporate new ideas and new technology. Stuga also wanted to include ideas and suggestions from customers and...
Posted On - 17/01/2019
Lower net migration and a higher rate of employment has set wage increases spiralling. Promac discusses on how you can keep a lid on the cost of manufacture. Net migration to the UK from other EU countries has reached a near six-year low; according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the difference between the number of EU citizens entering...
Posted On - 17/01/2019
By Emmegi. Voilap Holding is the new name for Cifin – the group that owns Emmegi, and which was established several years ago by the Emmegi founders. It’s a reflection of Voilap, the newest digital business within the group, but it actually now encompasses nine different but complementary brands. Among those in the UK is Emmegi but, from a fabrication...
Posted On - 17/01/2019
Embodied energy in building products is under greater scrutiny, delivering environmental benefits and production efficiencies. Joe Hague, managing director of Promac Group, explains. The construction industry is the largest consumer of resources in the UK, swallowing up more than 400 million tonnes of material a year (Davis Langdon) and accounting for 10% of UK carbon emissions (Envest). While the industry...
Posted On - 12/11/2018
Promac’s Joe Hague asks if the growing influence and increasing automation introduced by large fabricators mean that the writing is on the wall for small and medium-sized manufacturers. Consolidation goes hand-in-hand with market maturity and the list of acquisitions and mergers in the glass processing and fabrication sector is long. This has done two things: it’s created new and larger...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Matt Hardy, director of Skyglaze explains how the new LMX650 from FOM is redefining possibilities in aluminium fabrication. FOM allows you to manufacture better product by accessing more technical processes – flow and friction drilling, notch cutting, T-milling – and the integration of those processes. That specialism means that ultimately as a manufacturer you can do more and offer your...
Posted On - 14/06/2018
Emmegi’s success in the UK over the last decade has largely mirrored the success of the aluminium sector as a whole. Surging demand for our machines has reflected the growth in demand for the material and, in particular, the trend amongst PU fabricators to add aluminium products to their portfolios. What has made it particularly attractive for those fabricators has...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
The technology behind modern CNC machines is extraordinary says Mighton’s Mike Derham, but sometimes ‘small and specific’ works too. Unless your joinery business is dedicated to producing every piece by hand, you will be reliant to one degree or another on machinery during the production process. These days, with the cost of complex CNC equipment coming within the budgets of...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
Stuga Machinery’s Steve Haines explains how the company had a busy 2017 building a wide variety of machines while designing a new top of the range sawing and machining centre, now known as the ZX5. There are three ZX5s installed in the market with two more on order, and it is looking like this new model may eclipse the popular...
Posted On - 30/05/2018
90° and specialist welds have seen exponential growth, so if a new machinery platform is on your shopping list what are the pros and cons of each? Joe Hague, Promac discusses. Innovation in welding technologies has driven a step-change in PVCU manufacture. Growth in the PVCU window market, for example, slowed to 1.2% last year but that’s less of an...
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