Since announcing the inception of its new ‘Fabrication Division’, the Wellesbourne-based Engineering Technology Group (ETG) has appointed top engineers in the sheetmetal and tube arena, signed technical partnerships with industry-leading machine tool manufacturers – and now its added the Durma brand to its portfolio.

Durma has upward of 1,000 machines installed in virtually all industry sectors with everything from small businesses to leading OEMs investing in Durma machines over the past 25 years. The new agreement is a significant boost for ETG’s new Fabrication Division and its customers, as the Durma range encompasses everything from press brakes and laser cutting machines to plasma cutting, bending centres, guillotine shears, cylinder bending, punch presses, notching machines and automation solutions. With the world’s largest portfolio of sheetmetal machinery and automation solutions, Durma technology is immediately available from ETG.

Discussing why Durma chose ETG as its partner for the UK, Durma UK Sales Manager Aykut Ozturk said: “We needed a new partner to accelerate our growth in the UK. The UK is our sixth largest market and it has huge potential with sheetmetal machinery sales in the region of £900 million a year. To increase our exposure and sales, we identified ETG as the perfect partner.

“ETG has a world-class showroom facility and it already works with industry-leading brands like Nakamura-Tome, Chiron and many others — so we knew they had a pedigree of working with prestige brands like Durma. Additionally, ETG has an excellent reputation for service and support, which is critical considering our significant UK customer base.”

Andrew Smith Hughes, the product manager for Fabrication at ETG, said: “The opportunities for this partnership are extremely exciting. The Durma brand has a reputation as one of Europe’s most prestige sheetmetal and fabrication machine tool brands. The build quality, innovation and automation solutions are excellent and the technical support provided in the UK by Durma will be unprecedented – this will also exemplify how important the UK market is for Durma.”

Durma will be exhibiting at MACH 2024, taking place 15-19 April (Hall 18, Stand 750) and will be accompanied by ETG, Three machines will be showecased, a 6kW fiber laser, a press brake with robotic loading and a 375-tonne servo press brake.