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News Release from: Pratt Burnerd International
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 May 2004
Workholding firms scored a GBP 300,000
hit at MACH
Enquiries received by Pratt Burnerd and Crawford Collets at MACH showed a 60% increase, compared with the last event and the two companies took GBP 300,000 in one order alone for workholding items.
In the midst of many companies reporting good results from the UK's MACH 2004 exhibition, leading workholding specialists Crawford Collets and Pratt Burnerd International have reported an extremely buoyant MACH Enquiry levels for this MACH soared in comparison to previous MACH shows, with an overall 60% increase in enquiries when compared with the combined efforts of both companies at MACH 2002
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 5 Mar 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Highlight of the show was a GBP 300,000 order placed on the two companies for 3 jaw power chucks and cylinders, collet chucks, cylinders, manual chucks, turrets and Dickson Toolposts.
With an additional investment of over GBP 3 million, the two companies combined their manufacturing and research forces at Pratt's Halifax site some twelve months ago to ensure the high quality of the product ranges could be maintained whilst prices continued to be controlled.
"We are seeing the results of this in our normal trading" General Manager/Director Peter Simms said "but more especially we saw the effects during the show.
We were amazed and delighted by the sheer volume of customers who came to us as the chosen supplier for their projects and even more so by the number of companies with which we have not previously dealt.
One of our greatest advantages is the size and range of our stockholding: for instance Crawfords holds over 33,000 different collets in stock, including all the commonly used Crawford Multibore collets, the 5C and R8 collets and the Dickson Toolpost.
That enables us to meet the whole of a customer's requirement, not just the frequently used collets but also the atypical collets which are needed - often as a one-off - to complete a job.
Our ability to develop specials quickly thanks to our big design team and extensive manufacturing facility (4,000m2) also gives us an edge in the more difficult or complex workholding tasks customers have".
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