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New year and exciting new opportunities

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

MTDCNC came down to our head office in Hove recently to talk to the owner of Kitamura, Dr Kitamura and our MD Eric, watch the video below.

Another visit from Paul Jones at MTDCNC gave us the opportunity to show off about the phenomenal Kitamura range, including the HX500iG horizontal machining centre we’ve got in stock at our showroom in Hove, watch the video:

Our range of Hanwha collaborative robots are making another appearance at Robotics and Automation, the only dedicated robotics and automation exhibition in the UK.

In recent years, the sliding head turning market has seen the niche machining technology continually encroach and impact of the sales of fixed head turning centres.

Paul Jones from MTDCNC came to our head office in Hove to have an in depth discussion with Eric about our new range of Kitamura machining centres, watch the video below:

Dugard have just taken on a brand new product range, the Fastcut range of turning centres, and MTDCNC reviewed the company for us:

Paul from MTDCNC met up with Jerry Wu from You Ji at the recent Timtos exhibition in Taiwan, watch to see what he had to say:

MTD saw a lot of Dugard machines on show at Timtos including our HD range.  Paul saw the Dugard HD1886B and he was very impressed:

Our MD Eric was in Taiwan last week at Timtos, and he bumped in to Paul from MTD who was there looking at all the new machine launches.  In the first video below Eric’s joined by Jeff from Chiah Chyun, take a look:

Dugard have now become the sole UK & Ireland sales and distribution outlet for the world renowned Kitamura brand of machine tools. The Kitamura machinery motto is ‘limitless creativity’ and this has been established on a global stage since its inception in 1933 with machine tool technology that is genuinely ‘world class’.

Described by MTD as a single spindle Y axis powerhouse, the SMEC SL2500Y is another great option for machining components in one operation, watch the video below:

MTDCNC came to review some of our stock machines and they were very impressed with the SMEC SL2000SY, take a look at the video

The Annual Investment Allowance (AIA) is a tax incentive offered to businesses to encourage capital investment.  This allowance has been temporarily increased this year, so if you’re in profit and buying machines the government will potentially give you tax relief on purchases up to £1,000,000, that could be a £200,000 saving*.

Paul from MTDCNC.com reviewed our Dugard 1000E vertical machining centre, watch the video below:

Paul from MTD stopped in at our Southern Manufacturing stand and asked Eric a few questions about what’s in store for us in 2019

The Dugard portfolio continually evolves to meet the diverse needs of the industry, which lead to the appointment of Colin Thomson to support ongoing growth of the Hanwha brand.

5 – 7 February 2019, FIVE, Farnborough

Made in South Korea, Hanwha sliding head CNC lathes and collaborative robots are now available exclusively at Dugard.  Both ranges were launched at our 2018 open house, 17 & 18 October at the Hove showroom.