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Dugard enhance their presence in Scotland

Wednesday February 22 2023

Like much of Europe, the UK is in the midst of a fuel crisis that is pushing the UK government to source more fuel from the North Sea as well as driving investment in the renewables industry. To capitalise upon this, we’ve employed Steven McBride as our new area sales manager to maximise opportunities in […]

Take a look at the impressive range of machine tools at Dugard

Friday January 20 2023

At Dugard we’re very proud of our huge range of machine tools, we’ve got the widest range in the UK of horizontal and vertical lathes, machining centres, grinders and cobots.  Our choice of machines is so extensive we’ve definitely got a machine for you, whatever size you need or whatever your budget.  Watch the video […]

Chevalier grinders – an unbeatable price and performance combination

Tuesday November 1 2022

Supplied exclusively in the UK by Dugard, Chevalier have dominated the imported grinder market in Europe for over 30 years. 

MTD Live from MACH22

Tuesday May 17 2022

MACH22 was an enormous success for Dugard, with orders taken and machines sold from the stand and plenty of customers to meet. During the show Paul Jones and the rest of the team at MTDCNC joined us on the stand for a bit more information about the machines we were showing. Lyndsey Vickers interviewed our […]

Orders taken at MACH

Thursday April 21 2022

MACH 2022 proved a resounding success for Dugard Machine Tools, seeing us winning several orders and taking an unprecedented number of enquiries at the show. With four new machine tools on the stand, the crowds were certainly impressed by the breadth and diversity of the technology on show. It was a MACH debut and the […]

Alex Newman joins the team in the South West

Monday February 7 2022

As the UK gradually returns to post-pandemic levels, we’ve has now appointed Alex Newman to support the unprecedented growth we’re enjoying across all brands in our portfolio. Joining us in January as an area sales manager, Alex has been employed to support customers and expand sales in the South West of the UK – further […]

Dugard to Show Diverse Machine Range at Southern Manufacturing

Friday December 17 2021

Making its long-awaited return to exhibitions after the Covid-19 hiatus, Dugard Machine Tools will be introducing three machines at the Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition that takes place from the 8th to 10th February. On Stand J220 at the Farnborough International Exhibition Centre, Dugard will be demonstrating the diversity of its portfolio with a Kitamura […]

Dugard adds new staff in the South East

Wednesday November 24 2021

As part of our ongoing growth strategy, we’ve employed two new Area Sales Managers to support customers along the M4 corridor, London, the South East and Norfolk areas. Mark Tipper has joined Dugard as the new Area Sales Manager for North London, Hertfordshire, Oxford and Norfolk whilst Mark Drummond has been appointed to support customers […]

Dugard New Machines at EMO 2021

Wednesday September 8 2021

At the forthcoming EMO exhibition, the principal partners of Dugard Machine Tools will be introducing a host of new machine tools that will be available from Dugard this autumn. The new arrivals include highly productive sliding head turning centres from Hanwha, robust turning centres from SMEC and multi-axis high-end machining centres from Kitamura. For manufacturers […]

Dugard strengthens turning portfolio

Tuesday July 13 2021

We have strengthened our portfolio of turning centres with the arrival of the Pinacho brand of conventional and CNC flatbed lathes. The Pinacho brand is recognised worldwide for its exceptional build quality and performance, factors that certainly appealed to us when formalising the distribution agreement with Pinacho. Pinacho offers cost-effective solutions to simple, and complex […]

Dugard adds to its growing team

Monday April 26 2021

As the UK gradually returns to post-pandemic levels, we’re happy to have appointed David Rawson to support the relentless growth that we are enjoying across all our brands. Joining us in April as the Area Sales Manager, David will be tasked with serving the rapidly growing customer base in the North of the UK. With […]

Hanwha sliding head CNC lathes for exceptional one hit machining

Sunday November 29 2020

Hanwha sliding head CNC lathes at Dugard are a unique range from 7mm right up to 45mm on the sliding head (42mm guidebush and 45mm non guidebush sliding head).  Paul Jones from MTDCNC came to Hove to talk to Colin Thomson, our sliding head expert, watch the video underneath: Diverse range to cater for any industry […]

Kitamura vertical, horizontal and 5 axis machining centres at Dugard

Monday October 12 2020

The Kitamura range of high speed, high precision vertical, horizontal and 5 axis machining centres manufactured in Japan are the newest addition to the strong profile of machine tools available at Dugard. 

Dugard makes 2020 extra memorable with 40% off deals

Monday September 14 2020

If you have ever wanted to be the proud owner of a truly high-end machining centre and all the benefits within, now is the perfect time to buy with Dugard’s Summer Season Sale. As the UK’s exclusive agent for Kitamura machine tools, the Summer Season Deals now allows you to own the ‘best-in-class’ range of […]

Hanwha sliding head lathes breathe life into ventilator challenge

Monday August 31 2020

With the ramp-up of the ‘Ventilator Challenge UK’ project to battle the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, we saw an unprecedented surge in enquiries and sales for our Hanwha range of sliding head turning centres. As manufacturers up and down the country switched production output to machining small turned components for the Ventilator Challenge UK, the attributes […]

You can still rely on us for CNC machine tools sales, service and spares

Tuesday March 31 2020

For manufacturers all over the UK, this is a more critical time than ever. We’re here to help. During this time we will still be offering full sales, service and spare part support for our complete range of CNC machine tools. We know that in the coming months you may face increased demand, unforeseen maintenance […]

MACH may be postponed but we still have amazing machine offers

Wednesday March 18 2020

At MACH 2020 we were planning on demonstrating our most diverse and comprehensive range of machine tool options yet introducing no fewer than four new product lines to MACH visitors.  However, as you all know by now, MACH has been postponed until 25 – 28 January next year.  We were planning some show deals and […]

Dugard are now the UK distributor of Ibarmia 5 axis machining centres

Wednesday February 12 2020

As part of our relentless and exciting growth strategy, Dugard have now become the sole UK and Ireland agent for the high-quality range of IBARMIA 5-axis moving column machining centres.

We’re expanding the Dugard team

Wednesday December 11 2019

New year and exciting new opportunities

Introducing the updated cost effective range of Dugard VMCs

Friday November 22 2019

The Dugard range of cost-effective vertical machining centres has now evolved following extensive discussions with our Taiwanese partners to instigate enhancements throughout the already impressive range of VMCs.

Hanwha Precision Machinery has global expansion in their sights with their new Europe Technical Centre

Wednesday October 16 2019

Hanwha Precision Machinery are the first Korean machinery company to set up a technical centre in Europe.