17 August 2022
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13-17 Sep 2022 – AMB

Are you heading over to AMB 2022? Make sure you visit the Okuma and Makino stands to discuss your machining needs!

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17 August 2022
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25-27 October – Okuma Europe Open House

Visit Okuma’s Open House in Europe with the team at NCMT!

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12 August 2022
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Always wanted an OKUMA? How about this one!

Greig talks us through a new machine that’s now available to view and to buy at NCMT. Always wanted an Okuma? like buying machines that perform and last a lifetime? how about this one.

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11 February 2022
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Two modes of Turning plus Prismatic Machining in one hit replaces four ops in Valve Production.

Fort Vale Engineering, Burnley, is a global leader in the manufacture of stainless steel valves and ancillaries used in the tank container industry for transportation of bulk liquids and gases by road, rail and sea. The company had been making one particular type of valve for several years[...]

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20 February 2020
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MACH 2020 – Makino preview – Hall 19, stand 130

High-speed, 5-axis machining centre MACH 2020 will mark the UK launch of the D200Z 5-axis, vertical-spindle machining centre from Japanese machine tool builder, Makino, which is represented exclusively in the UK and Ireland by NCMT (www.ncmt.co.uk). On stand 130 in Hall 19 the machine will be demonstrated cycling[...]

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9 February 2020
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MACH 2020 – Okuma preview – Hall 19, stand 120

The Okuma Spaceturn LB3000 EX II turn-milling centre will make its first appearance in the UK equipped with the Japanese manufacturer’s Armroid robotic arm, the first in the world to be integrated inside a CNC machine tool. It will be configured for automated handling of shaft-type parts. All[…]

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13 December 2019
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Hard milling of moulds cuts lead-times by 40 per cent compared with EDM

Whitchurch toolmaker and plastic injection moulding specialist BM Injection has over the years replaced more and more time-consuming electric discharge machining (EDM) of moulds and dies with direct milling of the tool steels in their hardened state, which can be up to 58 Rc in the case of[...]

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