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Our 5 axis range is growing and it now includes the impressive Dugard GTX620, a 5 axis simultaneous machining centre designed for precision and efficiency.

21 – 23 March 2017, FIVE, Farnborough

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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, […]

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 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. 

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.

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

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. 

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 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. 

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. 

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 […]

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 […]

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. 

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