UK name change made to water jet systems company

Following Karolin Machine Tool's acquisition of Ingersoll-Rand's waterjet cutting business area the UK Ingersoll-Rand Waterjet Cutting Systems is now KMT Waterjet Systems.

Ingersoll-Rand's waterjet cutting business area has been acquired by KMT (Karolin Machine Tool) of Sweden.

The UK business formerly known as Ingersoll-Rand Waterjet Cutting Systems will now be called KMT Waterjet Systems.

The UK operation will continue to operate from its existing office in Wallows Lane, Walsall, and still be headed up by Area Sales and Service Manager, Peter Longman: "We will continue to provide our UK customer base with exactly the same range of intensifiers and associated products and services and our European Headquarters remains in Bad Nauheim, near Frankfurt in Germany." KMT is a market leader in selected segments of production machinery and systems solutions with business areas including precision grinding, punch presses, press brakes and tube forming.

The acquisition of Ingersoll-Rand's waterjet cutting business will form a distinct business which is seen as having potential for further substantial growth throughout the rest of the world.

The benefits of this cutting technology are now being applied in a growing number of industries across an increasingly diverse range of metallic and non-metallic materials.

Core products such as Streamline and Autoline will be subject to further development whilst innovations such as the AMS Abrasive Management System will continue to provide optimisation of the abrasive waterjet cutting process.

As part of KMT, we are part of a company committed to the production engineering sector.

Their resources will enable us to develop the technology and applications of waterjet cutting at an even faster rate," concluded Peter Longman.

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