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News Release from: Bruderer UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 June 2002
Visitors down but power press enquiries
were up
Despite the number of visitors to this year's biennial Metalworking show being fewer than in 2000, Bruderer reported a higher than expected level of good quality enquiries.
Despite the number of visitors to this year's biennial Metalworking show being fewer than in 2000, Bruderer reported a higher than expected level of good quality enquiries This applied not only to their Swiss-built high-speed presses but also to products for which they are agents in the UK, including Hydraulico deep draw presses, Noxon decoilers and recoilers, and Unidor tool safety and monitoring equipment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Stamping ground for Bruderer high-speed presses
Since 2000, precision stampings specialist Batten and Allen has invested in seven new, high-speed presses from Bruderer UK, bringing the total on the Cirencester site to 26.
High speed press stamps small, complex parts
Bruderer has introduced its BSTA 200 200kN high-speed press for stamping out small and complex parts at speeds of up to 2000 strokes/min.
Said Bruderer UK's Deputy Managing Director, Brian Asbey, "It was particularly pleasing to learn of new projects currently being considered, rather than receive the same long lead time enquiries as at the last show.
And some of the proposed investments will be considerable, which leads me to believe that UK manufacturing may at last be showing signs of coming out of recession." Around a quarter of visitors to the Bruderer stand were new contacts.
Enquiries from the telecommunications and electronics industries were down, but other industries have emerged to offset this loss of business, notably packaging for the medical and pharmaceutical industries, house building and to some extent automotive.
Despite sluggishness in the electrical / electronic sector, it was a company in this field that placed an order at the show for a Bruderer press, the first BSTA200 model in the country fitted with the new PC-based 'B' control.
Electrical connector manufacturer, Harwin plc, took delivery of the machine in early June for research and development into microstamping of connectors to micron tolerances.
Discussions between Bruderer and Harwin had been ongoing, but it was only the week before the show that the final decision to purchase was made.
Other business that Brian Asbey expects, for which the show will have been a catalyst, includes a further GBP 700,000 of Bruderer press sales, GBP 50,000 of decoilers from the Noxon range and GBP 25,000 of Unidor equipment.
There were also serious enquiries for GBP 500,000 of Hydraulico equipment.
He concluded, "If the leads are as strong as they seem and all this materialises, the exhibition will have exceeded our expectations against a backdrop of a manufacturing downturn and an endemic short term outlook on finance.
What might we and our customers achieve with a little help from Government?".
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