AMMMun4389, Author at MMMA

January 2020

AP&T delivers press hardening lines to Unipres in the UK and France

By AMMMun4389| 2020-01-23T09:19:46+00:00 January 23rd, 2020|Uncategorised|

Unipres visits AP&T in Ulricehamn, Sweden. Tsutomu Serizawa and Ryoji Maeda from Unipres in the middle, with Peter Robisch and Yuki Yoshikawa from AP&T on either side. Japanese Unipres supplies many of the world’s major car manufacturers with car body parts made out of pressed sheet metal. The global group has now decided to invest in two complete press hardening lines from AP&T. The first of the two lines will begin operating at Unipres’s British manufacturing center in Sunderland at the beginning of 2020. The second line will [...]

Bruderer UK’s order book boosted by end of political uncertainty

By AMMMun4389| 2020-01-16T17:36:04+00:00 January 16th, 2020|Power Press, Press Tooling|

Investment in manufacturing is on the rise following the General Election according to one of the UK’s leading suppliers of precision high-quality stamping and forming technology. Bosses at Bruderer UK are predicting a buoyant 2020 after it revealed a £3million pipeline of projects that include the installation of the latest precision high-speed stamping presses and one high tonnage Zani machine for clients involved in the aerospace, automotive, construction and renewables sectors. Adrian Haller, Managing Director, believes a majority Government has helped to remove some of the uncertainty shrouding industry and [...]

Sales milestone delivers a 10-year birthday present for Worcester Presses

By AMMMun4389| 2020-01-14T14:39:19+00:00 January 14th, 2020|Member News|

A Black Country manufacturing specialist is celebrating 10 years of supplying hydraulic presses in the UK by hitting a major sales milestone. Danny Wheldon (P.A.B. Coventry), Russell Hartill (Worcester Presses) and Mark Brazier (P.A.B. Coventry) Worcester Presses, which employs 14 people at its works in Dudley, has recently installed its 50th hydraulic press into P.A.B. (Coventry) to help it cope with an increase in orders from the automotive and aerospace sector. The sheet metal and prototype experts have taken a Yeh Chiun 300 tonne H-Frame hydraulic press that [...]

Blechexpo survey by ROEMHELD on the digital future of the press: Manufacturers are well prepared for electromobility

By AMMMun4389| 2020-01-14T14:17:27+00:00 January 14th, 2020|Member News|

The trend topics: servo drives, digitalisation, networking, condition monitoring ROEMHELD presents industry 4.0-compatible die clamping technology Hilchenbach, January 13, 2020. Manufacturers of forming presses and stamping presses feel well prepared for the production of components for electromobility. The corresponding machines are consistently on offer. This was confirmed by a survey conducted by the clamping technology specialist ROEMELD at Blechexpo with its industrial partners AIDA, Andritz Kaiser, Bruderer, Schuler and Simpac. The experts believe that in the near future there will be a trend towards simple, cost-effective and easily retrofittable solutions [...]

December 2019

Sheffield businesses build new relationships with india following trade mission

By AMMMun4389| 2019-12-13T14:05:46+00:00 December 13th, 2019|Member News, Uncategorised|

Companies and organisations from across the Sheffield City Region (SCR) in the United Kingdom are establishing new business relationships in India, following a successful trade mission focused on advanced manufacturing. Sir Nigel Knowles, the Sheffield City Region Mayor’s Advisor on International Trade and Investment, headed up a highly successful international trade visit to Pune and Mumbai in India between 25 and 30 November with an ambition to open trading opportunities and job creation between the SCR and India. Ten delegates from a number of organisations, including Performance Engineered Solutions (PES) [...]

MMMA ‘Metalworking’ Village at MACH 2020

By AMMMun4389| 2019-12-10T09:18:49+00:00 December 3rd, 2019|MACH2020, Member News|

The MMMA ‘Metalworking’ Village is officially FULL, filling the largest area the association has ever taken at MACH, this is a fantastic achievement, with 25 members exhibiting. The Metalworking Village covers 650 square metres, one of the largest areas of any exhibitor at MACH. Demonstrating technologies, services and products from across many sectors of UK Manufacturing industries. We are very proud to boast that over 25 individual companies are exhibiting from the MMMA. The association goes from strength to strength, over the last two years many changes have been implemented. [...]

November 2019

CRAVEN FAWCETT RELEASES NEW EXTRUDER

By AMMMun4389| 2019-11-19T15:45:15+00:00 November 19th, 2019|Member News, Uncategorised|

Craven Fawcett, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of clay preparation machinery and part of Group Rhodes, has added a new model to its extruder line up, with the capability to deliver higher volume outputs. The name CENTRA, which references multiple centres, reflects the machines ability to split its de-airing chamber to allow the mixer to be mounted either in-line or at 90 degrees to the extruder. The Double Shafted Mixer section has also been upgraded with the inclusion of a new design of gearbox and larger trough to complement [...]

October 2019

Highly efficient Voith drive technology at Blechexpo 2019

By AMMMun4389| 2019-10-29T15:41:49+00:00 October 29th, 2019|Member News|

• Voith servo-drives are highly dynamic, energy efficient and robust. • The integrated hydraulic system of servo-drives allows easy installation and reduces maintenance costs. • Servo pump drives and variable speed pumps provide maximum productivity with energy savings of up to 70 percent. HEIDENHEIM, Germany. Voith will be presenting self-contained hydraulic axis, systems and components for the sheet metal working industry at Blechexpo 2019, from November 5th to 8th, in Stuttgart, Germany. Energy-efficient and self-contained servo drives The Voith product family of self-contained servo drives are characterised by high dynamics [...]

Climate-smart clothes hangers manufactured with equipment from AP&T

By AMMMun4389| 2019-10-17T10:18:29+00:00 October 17th, 2019|Member News|

Metal is not the only material that can be formed with equipment from AP&T. Employing a unique method, Ekoligens’ production plant in Kungälv, Sweden, uses AP&T presses to produce hangers out of recycled paper and cardboard. So far production has been on a small scale, but in order to meet the growing demand for its products, Ekoligens is investing in a completely new, fully automated two press line that should be operational by the second half of 2020. Ekoligens uses AP&T presses to produce hangers out of recycled paper [...]

September 2019

ROEMHELD shows at the Blechexpo for the first time Industry 4.0 suitable clamping systems for press clamping/Live in use: Latest clamping and changing technology for press dies

By AMMMun4389| 2019-09-27T10:10:51+00:00 September 27th, 2019|Member News|

Hilchenbach, September 23, 2019. At the Blechexpo, ROEMHELD presents for the first time an element for the fully automatic clamping of dies on the press ram, which can measure real-time data on clamping forces and transmit them to the machine control. The new series of the rapid clamping system Flexline is therefore suitable for predictive maintenance and use in Industry 4.0 applications. Components such as the magnetic clamping plates can be seen live in use during the exhibition on a “TOP Line 2000” press from Andritz Kaiser (photo: ROEMHELD). [...]