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Citizen Machinery UK is to open a new regional office, applications engineering and machine showroom in the West Midlands to further enhance its customer service offerings and “to provide users with a significant machine preparation service to support the growing number of high-value automated turnkey solutions” being handled by the company.

The circa £2 million investment on a 1.1-acre site at the Hurst Business Park in Brierley Hill, near Birmingham, will include a 600 m2 showroom. Construction is scheduled to start in early 2018 and the new facility is expected to be officially opened late next year.

“Importantly,” says Deputy Managing Director Darren Wilkins, “this new facility in the heart of the country will complement our existing Citizen Machinery UK headquarters and showroom for Cincom (Citizen) and Miyano machines in Bushey, Watford, “and will play an important role in serving the modern-day demands of our growing customer base.” Continue reading “ADDITIONAL UK FACILITY IN BIRMINGHAM BOOSTS CITIZEN’S TURNKEY SOLUTIONS SERVICE”

Within a couple of hours of Citizen Machinery UK opening its doors for the Technology Days Open House, three directors of precision sub-contractor Adams Engineering (Ilkeston) ordered a Citizen Cincom L32 –VIII sliding head turn-mill centre to increase its installed base of Citizen Machinery UK supplied machines to five.

Said Managing Director Robert Roberts: “We have to increase capacity because one of our leading customers with a turnover in excess of £140 million has acquired another business. As we have a long term reliable supplier history, we are online to significantly increase part production.”

The first day of the Open House was branded an outstanding success by Deputy Managing Director Darren Wilkins as his team chalked up orders from the 75 customers attending worth well over £700,000. This also included machine orders from visiting customers from Scotland and Ireland. Indeed, over the three days with more than 300 people attending, 18 orders were placed worth in excess of £3.4 million with a major focus by customers buying seven machines featuring Citizen’s patented Low Frequency Vibration technology (LFV). Continue reading “ADAMS PLACES FIRST MORNING OPEN HOUSE ORDER THAT LEADS TO 3.4 MILLION CITIZEN BONANZA FROM 300 VISITORS”

Cars manufactured in Britain are becoming more British, according to a new Automotive Council study released today.

The report, Growing the Automotive Supply Chain – Local Vehicle Content Analysis, shows that 44% of all components used by UK carmakers now come from domestic suppliers, compared with 41% in 2015 when the study was last carried out.

In 2011, local vehicle content stood at 36%, which itself was an improvement following years of decline in UK automotive manufacturing.

Mike Hawes, SMMT chief executive, said: “The domestic supply chain is the backbone of UK Automotive and its health is crucial to the success of the whole sector.

“While it is good news that British cars are becoming more British and re-shoring efforts are enjoying success, the process takes considerable time.
“To grow our supply chain further, the long-term competitiveness of the UK must be maintained.

Continue reading “Cars manufactured in Britain are becoming more British…”

Citizen Machinery UK has created the next generation of its senior management team drawn from a trio of internal promotions that have contributed more than 60 years of experience in building the continued success of the Citizen and Miyano brands.

With Geoff Bryant relinquishing his role as managing director to Edward James, who joined Citizen in 2012, Darren Wilkins now becomes Deputy Managing Director with sole responsibility for sales and marketing and Jon Hart is now Finance and Administration Director. Mr Bryant will continue as business advisor to the new team.

Said Mr James: “This is an exciting time to establish the future progression of the business based on the cultivation of the new management team by Mr Bryant with full support from Japan.”

Said Mr Wilkins: “Over the past few years we have been progressively developing our team of key people so as to enable a smooth buy cymbalta online no prescription succession with a shared responsibility covering finance, sales, technical support and involvement in product development.”

Mr Bryant who has recently been appointed President of the Manufacturing Technologies Association for the next two years, remains a director of Citizen UK’s sister company, Hestika France until March 2018 when Mr Wilkins will also take on this responsibility. Mr Wilkins is also a director of Citizen Macchine Italia, the Group’s Italian operation and will be expanding the European sales operation.
Citizen Machinery UK employs 48 people and has recently expanded its sales team to support the growth in the range of machines available and technology involved as well as the expanding customer base. The sales team is able to enhance its customer contact having a more compact area to cover. In addition, Adrian Pearce has been promoted to Financial Manager under Jon Hart.

Thank you for everyone who attended Jimtof, it was great to meet with you and share the experience. Jimtof proved to be very positive with the total attendance being higher than 2014 and 2012 totalling an incredible 147,602 people. The Citizen stand was completely full from the first morning onwards with many visitors keen to see the new technology in action.

The Citizen Jimtof theme was focused on new technology with 15 Cincom/ Miyano prototype and production models to include integrated LFV, laser, cheapest price cymbalta 60 mg skyving and multi-cell technology to support the demand for more efficient machining processes and production of components from near shaped material. Jimtof has really helped the launch of the LFV technology and the market reaction grows from strength to strength with orders being placed Worldwide. LFV has been an immediate success with 40% of current L20 orders including LFV technology. The L series of machines has proved to be most popular with many large orders being placed during the Jimtof period.

Thank you everyone who attended our open house event!

The event was very successful indeed with over 400 people attending the 3 day period. A number of companies took advantage of the show promotional prices and we received machine orders in excess of £2M. We have had many positive comments from our open house partners and guests who recognised the value in attending our event. Visitors were able to view the latest machine technology being demonstrated on 18 of our machine models plus meet many specialist suppliers who were at hand to offer advice on the latest tooling, machine accessories, component measuring, materials supply, machine monitoring, high pressure coolant and chip management systems.

Continue reading “A review of the Citizen Open House 2016”