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News Release from: Mori Seiki UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 10 January 2005
Machine tool sales prompt new
recruitment
30% rise in sales prompts recruitment drive at Pollard Pollard have seen machine tool sales shoot up by 30% in 2004. Mori Seiki NL lathes have been a major contributing factor with over 50 in the UK.
Pollard have seen machine tool sales shoot up by 30% in 2004 The Mori Seiki NL series lathes have been a major contributing factor to this success with over 1200 installed worldwide and more than 50 in the UK since their launch in June 2004
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 11 Jan 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Steve Finn, National Sales Manager for Pollard, commented "This confirms the trend towards using quality equipment to combine operations, reduce handling and subsequently produce very worthwhile savings in production times and costs." The company has also experienced some significant success in the medical sector, where customers are using its machines to manufacture prosthesis equipment, a perfect match for the capability of Mori Seiki machines, with the inherent rigidity of their design, to produce components to stringent quality standards.
Building on this success, Pollard is actively recruiting in its Sales and Service departments in order to build the best possible team to meet the growing demand.
Pollard will be exhibiting at Autosport International at the NEC from 13th to 16th January on stand E204.
About Pollard - formed in 1911, Fredk.
Pollard and Co is a privately owned company, and is one of Britain's premier suppliers and manufacturers of high quality, high precision machine tools and workholding equipment.
It works in partnership with its customers using its engineering expertise to cost effectively implement high precision and leading edge technology solutions. Request free introductory details about products from Mori Seiki UK ...
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