Around the Industry

MicroStep UK has now been established in the UK to market the company’s ranges of Aquacut and Watercut CNC waterjet cutting machines. The company is based in Coventry and has been formed through an agreement between the Directors of Matrix Lasers, who have been users of MicroStep machines for a number of years, and the MicroStep parent company in Slovakia. The new company has also appointed George Tudor, who has vast experience in the profiling industry, as UK Sales Manager.

Sheppard Plumbing under the ownership of Tony Sheppard is one of the UK’s most ardent admirers of Kopex International’s renowned Pipeslice pipe cutting tool. He has been using it for over seven years in his day to day domestic work around the Cheltenham area which includes plumbing- in bathrooms and kitchens as well as undertaking heating and gas boiler installations.

The 2008 Murex Welding Product wall planner is now available and is a must for every welding workshop.

This autumn has seen a new distributor added to Murex Welding Products’ UK wide network. Carillon Industrial Services (CIS) are a precision engineers’ merchant, whose new High Wycombe depot is now stocking the Murex range. The company is offering an array of technically advanced and well supported welding products to a customer base that covers a large part of the Home Counties.

Parker has introduced an innovative portable air preparation system as part of its successful Moduflex range, providing effective filtration and regulation of compressed air whenever and wherever it is required. The Moduflex Airframe can be installed quickly and simply at the point of use, requiring only an air supply to optimise the performance and service life of a diverse range of pneumatic tools and applications, improving productivity and reducing operating costs as a result.

Horstmann, the manufacturer of domestic and commercial heating controls for electrical and gas heating systems, has joined the Entity Group. The move creates the UK’s most advanced interoperable range of Smart metering and home control solutions.

Endevco Corporation, the leader in sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure applications, has announced the appointment of Jeremy Bryceson as Area Sales Manager in the Endevco UK office.

Endevco Corporation, the leader in sensing solutions for demanding vibration, shock and pressure applications, has announced the appointment of Maryann Villanueva as Regional Sales Manager for the company’s Western Region.

Invetech, a specialist in contract development and manufacture of biomedical products, instruments and custom automation, announces that it has opened a new 15,000 square foot facility in San Diego, California to support the expansion of its client base in North America.

Assembling even one reversing starter from conventional components is time consuming and tedious, so having to assemble 150 of them is a far from pleasant prospect. That's why German panel builder Hell GmbH chose Moeller Electric xStart products, which use tool-less plug connectors, for the starters in the control panels it recently supplied to Energie Wasser Niederrhein, a major utility company.