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Four high-technology
manufacturing businesses - Chiron Werke UK, Turning Technologies, Hyfore
and Hyformation - have come together to create The Engineering
Technology Group Ltd. This new Group has adopted a new and radically
different philosophy that gives customers the opportunity to take full
advantage of highly productive machine tools and compete in global
markets.
The Engineering Technology Group’s approach combines what smaller
companies do best – provide specialised expertise and focus – with the
strong resources infrastructure and market knowledge of a larger
organisation. Each of the four members of the Group will operate as an
individual business, with its own dedicated team of skilled,
factory-trained engineers, but be part of a unified structure that
allows them to share common central resources, services and information.
Paul Rhodes, Chairman of The Engineering Technology Group, explains the
challenge facing UK engineering.
“To compete with low labour cost manufacturers in China, India and
Eastern Europe we must think harder and act faster to develop a
competitive edge. This not only means investing in faster, more
accurate, more reliable, higher technology, and more flexible machine
tools, it also means applying them to create the very best World Class
manufacturing processes, ” he says.
“But the problem with the UK machine tool industry has been that small
niche companies often lacked the resources to meet these challenges,
while larger companies distributing a wide range of machine tool types
did not seem to have the in-depth expertise or desire to handle turnkey
applications and develop leading edge processes.
“The Engineering Technology Group has developed a truly unique response
to this urgent need and brings together the very best in high technology
machine tools and the cream of skilled engineering support to apply the
technology in a business-winning manner,” he says.
The creation of the new Group has seen a number of senior management
appointments. Paul Rhodes himself steps up from Managing Director of
Chiron Werke UK, the high-productivity machining centre specialist, to
become Chairman of the Group with additional responsibility for core
services.
Richard Blake joins the Group from DMG to take over from Paul as
Managing Director of Chiron Werke UK.
Mick Webster joins the Group from Toyoda Machine Tools as General
Manager of Hyformation, a new business focusing on Flexible
Manufacturing Systems.
The Managing Directors of the other two group members remain the same:
Richard Turner heads up Turning Technologies, the sole UK distributor
for Nakamura-Tome’s Super High Precision Turning Centres, and Gary
Dickinson runs the manufacturing automation specialist Hyfore.
For more
information please contact:
Polly Taylor
Chiron UK
Tel: 01926 818 418
E :ptaylor@chironuk.co.uk
www.turning.biz
www.chironuk.co.uk
www.engtechgroup.com
Andy Sandford
Sticklebacks Communications Ltd
Tel: 01737 270 648
Mob: 07971 436 644
E :
Andy@sticklebacks.com
www.sticklebacks.com
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