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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.
Business Minister visits 600 UK
600 UK welcomed the Rt Hon Matthew Hancock MP, the Business Minister to their Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire facility on Friday 27 February 2015 where he was able to see, at first hand, the results of recent investments.
600 UK wins prestigious regional business award
600 UK has won a prestigious regional award in the EEF/Aldermore Future Manufacturing Awards.
Colchester Lathes and Acu-Rite DRO systems in a class of their own for Sheffield Hallam students
We've always had Colchester lathes, other comparable brands just don't match up to their solid construction, durability and longer term cost-effectiveness" state Sheffield Hallam University.
Denmark proves fertile ground for Colchester and Harrison lathes
600 UK have appointed their long standing Danish Colchester lathes distributor, Herstad and Piper to now manage distribution arrangements in Denmark for all manual and CNC lathes, including the Harrison lathe range as of 1 January 2015.
Harrison Alpha lathe proves the perfect solution for Precision Component Manufacturing
Huddersfield subcontractor Precision Component Manufacturing has purchased a new Harrison Alpha 1400XS manual/CNC lathe and V550 centre lathe from 600 UK, continuing their long association with the Harrison brand for the accurate machining of components.
Education success for Colchester giving apprentices swiss skills
Josef Binkert AG again supplied a number of the best selling Colchester Triumph VS centre lathes for the Swiss Skills championships in Berne, to ensure that the talented apprentices achieved the best possible results in the turning competition.
