CITIZEN SALES TEAM TO REPRESENT MIYANO SALES IN THE NORTHERN UK TERRITORY

Drawing together the sales resource and machining expertise, CNC sliding head specialist Citizen Machinery UK is to also represent the Miyano range of turning centres in Scotland, North of England and North Wales, the East Midlands and East Anglia.

Said Citizen Machinery UK managing director Geoff Bryant: “By utilising our sales specialists in this vast area of the UK this will allow the Miyano Machinery UK sales operation to focus on the Midlands and the South. However, there is no change in the commercial, application and service support for the Miyano range of equipment which will continue to be administered from the Birmingham headquarters of Miyano Machinery UK.”

Both UK operations, which were drawn together following the acquisition of 65 per cent of Miyano shares by Citizen in Japan during 2008, will continue to take maximum advantage of their respective brands and separate sectors of operation that they have each represented for over 25 years. Citizen’s focus is for small turned part production up to 32 mm diameter bar size and Miyano up to 64 mm. Miyano also has the added advantage of a portfolio that contains auto-loaded chucking operations for some of its machines.

Maintains John Stretton, general manager of Miyano Machinery UK: “This change in sales strategy will work to our advantage by providing additional people to maintain contact with customers and create a high standard of support in complex turn-milling. Because of the investment in advanced ‘one-hit’ machining technology both Miyano and Citizen already have many common customers in this area of the country so it is a sound logistical move agreed between Mr Bryant and myself.”

The Citizen Machinery sales team has extensive turning centre experience involving leading names in the sector which, when integrated with the high levels of technology employed by Miyano and the existing Citizen product range, will provide a very knowledgeable input to both existing Miyano customers and new business opportunities.