10 July 2024 Production Engineering Solutions pesmedia.com NEWS As a leading provider of high-quality cutting tools and solutions, Waverley Cutting Tools has announced that it has entered a strategic partnership with Tooling Intelligence. The collaboration between the two leading companies designates Tooling Intelligence as the preferred inventory management supplier for Waverley Cutting Tools across Scotland. Located south of Aberdeen in Portlethen, Waverley Cutting Tools supplies Scottish manufacturers with a diverse portfolio of engineering products that range from cutting tools, measuring equipment, abrasives, oils and coolants, PPE, hand tools, welding equipment, consumables and more. Tooling Intelligence offers SupplyPro inventory management solutions and has remained exclusive to the brand since 2007. For manufacturers in Scotland, this partnership will benefit customers with streamlined inventory management through robust and scalable solutions allowing real-time tracking of tools, automated reordering of depleted stock and integration with existing ERP systems. Roger Kelman, director at Waverley Cutting Tools, expressed his enthusiasm for the partnership: “Tooling Intelligence offer a truly independent solution that allows us to utilise SupplyPro systems to their full potential with our customers.” Richard Swaffield, managing director at Tooling Intelligence concurred: “It’s been fantastic working in partnership with Waverley Cutting Tools. Roger and his team have a broad range of customers with a diverse set of requirements. It’s been a pleasure to ensure that our solution has been set up and integrated successfully to meet each customer’s requirements and exceed their expectations.” n Tooling Intelligence www.toolingintelligence.co.uk Over £200,000 of new equipment has been installed at Alloy Wire International (AWI) and is set to deliver more than £2m of additional capacity. The manufacturer of round, flat and profile wire has its two single hole blocks, three-hole dry drawing machine and four-spindle spooler now fully operational at its factory in the West Midlands. This will give the business the ability to reduce lead-times even further, while also allowing it to offer clients in the automotive, aerospace, defence, oil and gas and medical sectors with access to larger volume quantities. Bosses have also pressed the button on upgrading its tensile testing machinery, which will help it speed up the pre-job trial process and broaden the range of support offered to customers throughout the full duration of projects. “We had our best April on record for outgoing orders and the pipeline of activity shows no sign of things slowing down,” commented Andrew Du Plessis, technical director at AWI. “The decision was made last year to embark on a £500,000 investment drive and these latest installations are an important part of this strategy. Each one has been tailored to suit our specific production requirements and to have them operating on the shopfloor is great to see.” He continued: “Our success is all about making sure we are ahead of the competition when it comes to manufacturing agility, quality and delivery performance. The latter already sees us produce wire in three weeks – nobody else can do that. This investment reinforces this capability, as well as giving us nearly £2m of additional capacity to work with.” Alloy Wire International exports its range of 60 exotic alloys to 65 countries. This means material made and tested in its factories in Brierley Hill and Yorkshire is used as far away as Azerbaijan, Australia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and India. The company has been trading internationally for 77 years, building a strong sales agent network with representatives on the ground in its core European, Chinese, Australian and US markets. This has really paid off in the US, delivering its largest ever export order (worth $400,000) to supply a high strength nickel cobalt alloy to a US spring maker. n Alloy Wire www.alloywire.com £200,000 machinery boost goes live at Alloy Wire Turning centre specialist CMZ has formalised the purchase of a 22,000m² plot in the Aboro district (Berriz-Vizcaya) in Northern Spain to build a new assembly plant. The area will be the setting for the manufacture of a new lathe model the company plans to bring to the market. Design work on the new machine is well underway. This builds on the investment made by the company in recent years with the intention of increasing capacity to 1,000 machines a year. The medium-term objective is to consolidate production of 800 lathes a year. This latest development will mean CMZ has eight plants for lathe production. The process has been designed so that over 80% of the components used in its machines are made via its own manufacturing ecosystem. This provides ultimate in-house control, eliminates import and export costs and enables the use of high-quality components without impacting on the final cost of the machine. As CMZ confirmed at the end of its last financial year, 2024 will see the company focusing its efforts on international expansion, initially through consolidation of its presence in Turkey and the United States with the support of its commercial network. The Group’s oldest subsidiary, CMZ France, which is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary, will also see a focus on increasing production. n CMZ www.cmz.com CMZ acquires 22,000m² plot in Spain for production ramp up Waverley sales director Roger Kelman (left) with Richard Swaffield, managing director at Tooling Intelligence Waverley chooses Tooling Intelligence as inventory partner
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