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Open House 2025 – Manual to CNC: Your Path to Smarter Machining
Join us for two days of live demonstrations, workshops, and expert insight at the Colchester Open House. This year we celebrate 30 years of Alpha CNC/Manual Combination Lathes– machines that have transformed workshops worldwide by bridging the gap between conventional turning and CNC machining.
SpecDrum trusts in Colchester lathes for conveyor pulley machine tools
SpecDrum Engineering, one of the world's largest suppliers of conveyor pulleys, has purchased a 3-metre Colchester Mastiff centre lathe and a Colchester MultiTurn 3000 CNC lathe as part of an investment at its County Tyrone manufacturing facility.
Education Open Days an instant hit at 600 UK
600 UK held an inaugural Education Open Day on Wednesday 15 July, inviting lecturers from colleges, universities and training organisations to see new products by Colchester and Harrison lathes, Pratt Burnerd chucks and Clausing machine tools.
NEW Products for 2015 Catalague now available from 600 UK
See the exciting range of NEW lathes from Colchester and Harrison, chucks from Pratt Burnerd International, surface grinders and drill presses from Clausing.
More Openhouse success for 600 UK
Over 300 visitors from all corners of the globe attended 600 UK’s Openhouse event that ran from 2 to 4 June 2015, exhibiting an unprecedented 9 new products launched during the show.
600 UK celebrates National Women in Engineering Day with Boothroyd Primary Academy
To celebrate ‘National Women in Engineering Day’ on Tuesday 23 June, 600 UK had the pleasure of showing over 30, Year 5 female pupils from Boothroyd Primary Academy, based in Dewsbury, around their newly modernised factory in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire.
And we would walk 600 miles
A team of four from 600 UK took part in The Huddersfield Town Foundation, Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge on Friday 12th June. The challenge was to complete the 24.5 mile route, including Pen-y-Ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, within 12 hours.
