600 UK announces open house success

600 UK report a tremendous visitor response to their recent Openhouse event, which ran from 11th to 13th June 2013.  The three day event saw UK and overseas customers, training providers, global distributors, suppliers, local and trade press and many other engineering specialists welcomed by 600 UK to its Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire headquarters.

As well as unveiling their new manufacturing and office facility, 600 UK exhibited their range of advanced Tornado CNC turning centres, Alpha manual/CNC ‘teach’ lathes and Colchester and Harrison manual centre lathes.  Also displayed were advanced workholding products from Pratt Burnerd International and taper roller bearings from Gamet Bearings.   Completing the Openhouse line-up were the Raptor and D-Box fibre laser marking system from fellow 600 Group company, Electrox; Europa turret milling machines from RK International and fixturing and workholding from John Walton Ltd.

The newly re-organised site houses dedicated manufacturing cells for all product lines, together with a customer showroom allowing the exhibiting of all 600 UK products. This is complemented by new offices for all 600 UK sales, support and head office staff. 

600 UK Managing Director, Mike Berry, said: “As well as having the opportunity to showcase our superb new facility and product range, this Openhouse was our best ever in terms of visitor numbers, directly resulting in a number of significant new orders and some very strong enquiries from those who visited.”

Showing for the first time were Colchester’s new 2 and 3-axis Tornado CNC Turning Centres, alongside its market leading Colchester and Harrison centre and Alpha CNC combination lathe ranges.  The new Tornado is built using a modular design, which provides a most robust manufacturing platform, ensuring greater accuracy and reliability, giving CNC lathe operators even more value for money.

Visitors also saw the launch of Pratt Burnerd Internationals new ‘Gripfast’ Combination Power Chuck, which provides CNC lathe customers with a chuck, a collet chuck and a manAdidas Puma Shoes