The Staffordshire work-holding and clamping specialist Hainbuch UK (www.hainbuch.com) started 2018 in “spectacular fashion” after recording its best ‘first four months’ period ever; moreover, the company reckons that business will continue to improve, as MACH 2018 yielded a lead-generation rate more than double that achieved during the 2016 event.

Managing director Nick Peter said: “The Hainbuch team has already qualified the leads and we have to either visit or quote more than 100 businesses; and at least 60% of these are new names to us.

“We have a quote-to-order ratio in the region of 70-80%, so we‘ll be expecting to generate a lot of new business as a result of MACH.