On Hurco's stand, 440 serious enquiries for vertical machining centres and CNC lathes were recorded, which, in managing director Dave Waghorn's opinion is the largest number of good quality leads ever received by the company at a MACH exhibition.
Mr Waghorn believes the success was partly due to the company exhibiting a wider product range, which now encompasses twin column, bridge type machines and a greater diversity of 5-axis machining centres. The second factor was the sheer volume of innovations on show, including six new machining centres and a new turning centre with driven tooling.
Eleven machine orders were secured during the exhibition. On the first day, Halifax-based CLB Precision Engineers ordered a VM30 vertical machining centre to supplement its smaller VM1 model purchased in 2006.
Managing director Chris Berrett said: “The things we like most about Hurco machines are the high power for their size and the ease of programming using the conversational Max control.”
Later in the week, Machining Techniques, a subcontractor in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, placed an order for a VMX42U 5-axis machining centre, its first Hurco machine.
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