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News Release from: Vargus Tooling UK
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 March 2008
Widia cutting tools UK distributor named
Kennametal UK has appointed Vargus Tooling UK as its Master Distributor in the UK and Ireland for the Widia metal cutting tools programme.
Tooling specialist Vargus Tooling UK and Kennametal UK have agreed that Vargus Tooling UK will not only maintain but also further improve the already high level of support expected by the existing Widia user base IVargus Tooling UK's general manager, Stuart Hogg, said the 'new-look' Widia sales and support strategy will undoubtedly also lead to increased sales of a tooling portfolio that, on a price-to-performance basis, is probably unmatched
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Commenting on the agreement, Kennametal UK managing director, Randy Brown, said: "While Kennametal will continue to provide dedicated on-site service to a number of major Widia clients, predominantly in the automotive sector, our new partnership with Vargus Tooling UK will provide Widia users throughout the country with an unrivalled level of highly-responsive sales support and service".
He added: "The Widia product range clearly generates market-leading savings, and with the help of Vargus, these benefits can only increase".
Hogg said: "Our agreement with Kennametal and its Widia programme perfectly complements our world-leading Vardex threading solutions programme, for example.
Every company that generates threads also, of course, needs to create holes, so having such an extensive range of tooling readily available means customers now have the ultimate one-stop shop for a wide range of machining applications." * The first public display of the new partnership will be at the MACH 2008 exhibition, NEC, Birmingham, UK, April 21-25.
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