TDT Machine Tools officially appointed as UK agent for AWEA

Pictured left to right: AWEA’s international sales manager Kevin Lin, TDT’s Phil Terry and Tim Stell, and AWEA sales engineer Kathy Teal. Photo: John Hunter

At last week’s TIMTOS 2025, the biannual international machine tool show held in Taiwan, Rugby-based TDT Machine Tools Ltd was officially appointed as the UK agent for the AWEA range of CNC milling machines. TDT’s sales director Phil Terry and sales manager Tim Stell flew out to TIMTOS to confirm the deal with AWEA's international sales manager Kevin Lin.

Mr Terry said: “We are absolutely delighted to bring AWEA Mechatronic Co Ltd back to the UK market. There’s an increasing demand for high-quality double-column and five-axis CNC milling machines, particularly in aerospace, power generation, and defence. We have been searching for a premium milling brand to complement our You Ji range of vertical ram-type lathes — and with AWEA, we have found the perfect fit.”

Mr Stell added: “The signs so far are very promising. We have already sold two AWEA machines in the UK and haven’t really got started yet. In fact, part of our visit to TIMTOS has included a trip to the AWEA factory to see first-hand our customers machines in build. The manufacturing facilities were extremely impressive.”

AWEA, which was celebrating its 40th year in business at TIMTOS, is part of the Goodway Group, which was celebrating its 50th year. AWEA has a comprehensive range of machines in its portfolio, including five-axis machining centres, multi-face machining centres, horizontal machining centres, bridge-type machining centres and standard vertical machining centres.

High-throughput environments
Its latest generation of automatic pallet-change systems, featuring 15 stacked zero-point pallets on the five-axis range, is proving particularly popular in high-throughput environments. AWEA machines are widely used across sectors including aerospace, defence, automotive, shipbuilding, energy, electronics, communications, and mould manufacturing.

TDT itself started out 32 years ago supplying machine tool manufacturers with turrets and ancillary equipment. Fast forward to 2025 and the company is now a specialist in supplying and project managing large capacity CNC machine tool installations under the banner ‘thebigmachinecompany’, including machining centres, turning and boring centres, multi-axis turning and milling machines — heavy duty, high-speed technology from leading brands such as Lagun, You Ji, Tos Varnsdorf and now AWEA. TDT also continues to offer support for Duplomatic turrets.

TDT backs its technology offering with a first-class service support team, made up of highly skilled engineers with decades of hands-on experience working on large-capacity CNC machines. From installation and commissioning to after-sales support and preventative maintenance, Its engineering team ensures customers get maximum uptime and performance from their significant investment.