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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.
Colchester welcomes Bridgeport to the family!
Bridgeport Machine Tool Company was recently acquired by InCompass™, the platform company of Colchester Machine Tool Solutions.
October 2023 Open House
We hosted a two-day open house on Tuesday 10 October & Wednesday 11 October at their European Technology Centre in Elland, West Yorkshire. This was our first open house in 4 years, so naturally, a whole host of new products to showcase!
Colchester at TIMTOS 2023
In March 2023 we exhibited at TIMTOS 2023 in Taipei, Taiwan where we launched the new variable speed Student VS lathe.
TJM Capital Partners (TJM) Has Purchased the Machine Tool Solutions Division of the UK’s 600 Group
“The recent acquisition of Colchester Machine Tool Solutions is exciting for the continued growth and expansion of the company and we look forward to the future under the new ownership.” - UK Managing Director Jonathan Wright
Visit our new Virtual Showroom now!
Following the recent launch of our machine shop monitoring software Connect600, the new virtual showroom demonstrates Colchester’s continued push into digitised solutions.
Keith Clowe appointed as UK Sales Manager
To support continued growth and development, Keith Clowe has been appointed as UK Sales Manager.
