Giving manufacturers complete control and increased speed over their machining operations will be top of the agenda on the Hyfore stand at MACH 2018.

The UK’s leading work-holding specialist will be displaying the latest technology from eight global specialists on (Hall 20 Stand 185), including advancements in vices, clamp jaws, high-speed tooling holders and roller drive rotary tables.

The company will also be strengthening its relationship as the sole UK distributor of Midaco by showcasing a small pallet receiver, which demonstrates what the pallet changers could look like on a machining table.

Gary Dickenson, managing director, said: “Manufacturers — at all levels of the supply chain — are looking to get the most out of their machines, whether that is speed, accuracy or capacity.”

“One of the ways they can do that is improving the work-holding and making sure the part is held in a way that offers the optimum manufacturing efficiency and improves the life of the machine tool.”

He added: “This is why MACH is such an important show for us and one where we will demonstrate possible solutions and have experts on hand that can talk though bespoke fixturing and some of the other technology that may help.

“We are the only UK supplier of products from major brands, such as Spreitzer, Matrix, Acrow, Hardinge, Buck, Midaco, Sankyo, UCAM and Kosmek. There will be plenty to talk about at the show.”

Hyfore has spent more than 30 years working with customers on designing and manufacturing work-holding at its Coventry facility, with its expertise used by firms supplying precision parts to the aerospace, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical sectors.

In recent years, it has been slowly developing its e-commerce facility to amassing more than 100,000 standard work-holding products that can be used with CNC machining centres sold around the world.

Hyfore's on-line shop (www.hyfore.shop) has seen a 20% surge in orders over the last twelve months and stocks off-the-shelf vices, collets, gauges and chucks, not to mention specialist parts such as 4- and 5-axis tables.

Rob Beckett, work-holding product manager, said: “Our work in bespoke work-holding gives us a great insight into what customers need and how quickly they require it.

“This has been fed into the evolution of Hyfore.Shop, with an easy to use Web site, great search engine to find things quickly and next day delivery available in the UK.”