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News Release from: Holmes UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2003
UK multi-spindle specialist appoints
French agent
The appointment of a new French distributor by Holmes UK will streamline deliveries of the company's collets and Wickman multi-spindle machine spares to European customers.
The appointment of a new French distributor by Birmingham-based machine tool specialist, Holmes UK will streamline deliveries of the company's collets and Wickman multi-spindle machine spares to customers throughout mainland Europe Acropole, based in Marnaz, is a family-run business with a long-track record of supplying spares for sliding head machine tools
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 18 Dec 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The company's specialist knowledge and existing user base make it a particularly good fit with our own products and services," says Holmes UK's managing director, Tim Holmes.
"Not only are Acropole well placed to expand our spares, servicing and machine refurbishment business, but they will also be holding extensive stocks of our feed finger and collet ranges too.
"Ex-stock availability and next day delivery are cornerstones of our success in the UK.
The establishment of our 'French Connection' will enable us to extend that service to a much greater number of customers throughout Europe over coming months." About Holmes UK - established in 1983, Holmes UK specialises in the repair, maintenance and refurbishment of all Wickman multi-spindle machine tools.
The company's comprehensive service is supported by ex-stock availability of collets, feed fingers and other less popular Wickman spares, along with its own range of standard collets and feeders for manual and CNC machine tools.
Holmes UK also offers a growing portfolio of complementary machining products, as well as a wide variety of sub-contract machining services from its 27,000ft2 premises in Tyseley, Birmingham.
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