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SteelFab 2017

Tuesday December 13 2016

16 – 19 January 2017, Expo Centre, Sharjah, UAEIt’s SteelFab time again for Dugard, giving the team in Dubai the perfect opportunity to show off exactly what we can do for all our customers in the Middle East.  We’re in hall 3 on stand number 1645

Eric reviews the Dugard Lunan 630MF multi-function CNC lathe

Thursday December 8 2016

Like the other multi-function CNC lathes in our Dugard Lunan range, the 630MF gives you the best of both worlds offering manual function and full CNC capability.

Richard Starzec retires after 30 years

Monday November 14 2016

It’s been a long road for Richard, full of twists and turns, ups and downs and now, after 30 years, he’s finally been allowed to retire.

Get your workshop working with machine rental deals at Dugard

Wednesday August 24 2016

Buying a new machine is a massive investment, and we know only too well how hard it can be to secure funding.  Now might be the best time for you to think about renting a machine.

Stanislaw Kaminski MTI Poland Vice President – a great loss

Friday July 8 2016

It was with tremendous sadness that we received the news of Stanislaw Kaminski’s death yesterday afternoon.  Stanislaw was part of the original management team at MTI Poland, working for the company for 25 years. 

Bob and Eric in the top 100

Friday July 8 2016

It’s another good year for Bob and Eric Dugard as yet again they’ve made the People 100 list in the Brighton and Hove Independent.

MTI Poland celebrates 25th anniversary

Wednesday June 8 2016

The MTI AGM in Rybnik at the weekend was a fantastic success.  Eric, Bob and Paul Dugard, Richard Starzec and Olli Tyrvainen joined the team at our sister company in Poland to discuss performance for the last year, and they couldn’t be more pleased.  It was reported that 2015 was another record year for MTI, […]

Happy 45th Wedding Anniversary Bob!

Friday June 3 2016

It’s time for this year’s Dugard trip to our sister company MTI in Poland for their AGM and, what a stroke of luck, the trip just so happens to coincide with Bob and Margaret Dugard’s 45th wedding anniversary. 

MACH 2016

Friday March 11 2016

MACH is the biggest machine tools exhibition in the UK and if you’ve been there, well, ever, you’ll have seen a big and very busy Dugard stand. 

Southern Manufacturing 2016 is up and running

Tuesday February 9 2016

What a palaver at FIVE in Farnborough yesterday for the Southern Manufacturing 2016 build up – Storm Imogen caused quite a hefty delay!  The exhibition space at Farnborough is sort of like a semi-permanent marquee and Imogen was rattling around like no one’s business.

How was SteelFab 2016?

Friday January 22 2016

Yet again, SteelFab was an incredibly beneficial show for us, generating plenty of really strong enquiries. 

Southern Manufacturing 2016

Wednesday December 23 2015

9 – 11 February 2016, FIVE, Farnborough Southern Manufacturing 2015 was such a successful show for Dugard we booked the exact same stand right there and then. 

SteelFab 2016

Monday December 14 2015

17 – 20 January 2016, Expo Centre, Sharjah, UAESteelFab is such an important show for Dugard – especially now that we’ve got our brand new office in Dubai to accommodate our expanding team and an exciting new partnership with Aliyat. It’s the ideal opportunity to show off just how far our Middle East operation has […]

The new Dugard SS1263 high speed VMCs

Thursday November 26 2015

The brand new Dugard SS1263 high speed VMCs are a smaller, faster version of our tremendously successful Dugard HD VMCs.  They’ve still got the unique bedway design with the X axis sitting underneath the Y axis, giving you much more space for the machine, guarding and the travels. 

The new Dugard XP range of Vertical Machining Centres

Wednesday November 25 2015

We’re always keen to hear what our customers have to say about how Dugard machines work for them in production, often we can take these suggestions and build them into our ranges. 

Outstanding success at the 2015 open house

Friday November 20 2015

This year’s open house has exceeded all expectations – a fantastic turnout, brilliant pies and an impressive 19 machines sold at the Dugard open house in just 2 days!=With plenty of customers, and a healthy representation from our European dealers we had a brilliant 2 days showing off our popular core range of CNC lathes and vertical machining […]

Dugard open house 2015

Friday October 9 2015

11 & 12 November, Dugard head office, Hove It’s our open house again at Dugard and we’re doing it a bit differently this time.  For a start it’s a day shorter, just 2 days this time instead of 3 (we’ve got a lot of deliveries planned before Christmas and we can’t really have the loading […]

See you at Manufacturing & Engineering North East

Monday May 11 2015

8 – 9 July, Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle It’s the very first Manufacturing & Engineering North East (MENE) exhibition at Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle, 8 – 9 July, and Dugard very excited to be a part of it. 

Diemax Open Day – a tremendous success

Friday April 10 2015

When the Dugard team got to the new factory at Diemax Precision Engineering Ltd in Dundee they were very impressed.

Diemax celebrate moving into their brand new factory

Thursday March 5 2015

Dundee based Diemax Precision Engineering Ltd have moved to their brand new factory. 

Eric’s interview with MTDCNC about the HD range

Thursday March 5 2015

Heavy duty machining has now been made more productive with the launch of the new Dugard HD2210B machining centre.