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12 & 13 February 2014, FIVE, Farnborough With only two weeks until the show the Southern sales team at Dugard are getting ready. 

A brand new addition to our range of 5 axis vertical machining centres, the Dugard X5 was launched at our open house and it was really well received.

At Dugard we’re expecting big things from the new E range of VMCs.  Like their predecessor, the ECO range, they’re incredible value for money, and like the ECO range we’ve got a comprehensive choice of bed sizes ranging from 760mm right up to 2000mm. 

At Dugard we’re always on the lookout for ways to give you a better deal and this time we’ve got a stunner! 

With over 70 years of Machine Tool experience, it stands to reason that we have learned everything we need to know about supplying machines for the oil and gas industries. 

The new Samsung Machine Tools factory in Gimhae city, South Korea was unveiled last week and it’s impressive to say the least.

We hadn’t been to Southern Manufacturing for quite a few years, so we decided to give it a go again in 2013 and we’re so glad we did.  it was a really great show to be involved with, resulting in loads of high quality leads and brilliant feedback.

20 – 23 January 2013, Expo Centre, Sharjah, UAE – stand 1506 SteelFab has always been tremendously successful for Dugard.  Now we’ve got our dedicated office in the UAE, the Dugard Middle East team are really keen to start 2014 off with a bang so SteelFab is ideal.

7 – 11 April 2014, NEC, Birmingham MACH 2014, are you sure?!  Are we really talking about that already?  Well, no.  Well kind of.  It’s rudimentary at this stage, just planning.  BUT save the dates in your diary, 7 – 11 April 2014!

International Machinery, Tools & Equipment Exhibition, 2 – 4 December 2013, Oman International Exhibition Centre, Muscat, Oman

Saudi Arabia International Oil & Gas Exhibition 2013 25 – 27 November 2013, Dhaharan International Exhibitions Centre, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and we’re at stand 1008

10 – 13 November 2013, Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, UAE The Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (ADIPEC) is the largest oil and gas event in the Middle East. 

What a busy few days we’ve had at our head office in Hove – people have been pouring through the doors but now they’re all gone and everything’s been packed away it’s kind of lonely here!

The Dugard open house is a cracking success!  It’s been hard getting ready as it was so soon after EMO – the machines have only really just got back so putting them all in place and getting demos on this amount of machines has been no small feat.

Our open house kicks off on Tuesday 15 October – so with only a week to go it’s action stations here at our head office in Hove.

It’s watch time for Nigel Garner who’s “clocked” (!) up an impressive 25 years working for Dugard.  I’m sure many of you know him as he’s been one of our most prominent service engineers since 1988.  

EMO’s over and Hannover Messe is now nothing but a baron wasteland (this is a good photo though, well done Paul!).  Not to worry, EMO will be back, but not until 2015 and this time Milan will be the host city.

2 – 3 October, Event City, Manchester and we’re at stand A7 Southern Manufacturing was such a success for us that even though it’ll be a bit of a stretch (with EMO so close) there’s no way we could miss out on Northern Manufacturing in October.

It’s an exciting time at Dugard – we’ve got a Samsung Machine Tools packed stand at EMO and now there are some great new models for us to show you at the open house.  

The Dugard stand at EMO Hannover seems to be getting busier as the week progresses – we’re literally doing a roaring trade!

Goodness me but the build up for EMO was hard work – there’s nothing for it, we’re all going to have to learn German, it’s so embarrassing that our hosts are all so good at English, it’s time to make an effort!