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Dugard puts productivity behind bars at Stoke Heath

Wednesday August 20 2014

The rehabilitation and re-introduction into society of prisoners from Stoke Heath Prison & Young Offenders Institute has been made more relevant to modern manufacturing practices with the introduction of CNC machine tools from Dugard.

Dugard open house pulls in customers and increases orders

Wednesday August 20 2014

The Samsung Range of machine tools is proving to be Dugard’s fastest selling range of all time – with 13 sold throughout the UK and Europe at the Open House alone.

Hele Bay Precision Engineering – loyal Dugard customers

Thursday July 10 2014

As you can see from the excellent video above, Hele Bay Precision Engineering in Barnstable are extremely loyal Dugard customers. 

Southern Manufacturing 2017

Monday January 23 2017

21 – 23 March 2017, FIVE, Farnborough

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. 

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 […]

Buying machines from Eric for 40 years

Friday March 22 2024

Cliff Eglington from Blue Chip Engineering has been huge Dugard Machine Tools fan for the last 40 years.  He bought his first machine, a Colchester 2000 with Anilam Crusader control, from Eric with a government grant.  That was his first CNC machine and he hasn’t looked back.  Cliff now has 4 Dugard machines, and at […]

Visit us at MACH 2024

Thursday March 14 2024

The MACH exhibition is just around the corner and Dugard Machine Tools will be showcasing a raft of new machines – many of which will be receiving their MACH exhibition debuts. From the 15th to the 19th of April on Stand 370 in Hall 20, we’ll be introducing everything from fast precise sliding head turning […]

Area Sales Manager – South West

Monday January 15 2024

A fantastic opportunity to join one of the UK’s leading suppliers of CNC machine tools and services, a dynamic company with over 80 years in the engineering industry. This role would suite an experienced machine tool sales manager, or someone with the desire to move from a shop floor environment into this exciting role.  You’ll […]

The Empire strikes back

Monday October 16 2023

Founded back in 2007 with an initial purchase of three sliding head turning centres, Empire Manufacturing Ltd is a company that has gone from strength to strength. In 2012, it moved to a larger facility and subsequently added more sliding head turning centres, with machining centres, measuring equipment and fixed head turning centres following suit. […]

Lock, stock and two smoking pallets

Thursday August 4 2022

Founded in 1780, Henry Squire & Sons Ltd are one of the very few manufacturing businesses with a heritage that dates beyond the company that started out making padlocks and cabinet locks. Almost 250 years later, the company based in Wolverhampton is in a state-of-the-art 32,185sq/ft facility, manufacturing security devices and locks for the modern […]

MTD Live from MACH22

Tuesday May 17 2022

MACH22 was an enormous success for Dugard, with orders taken and machines sold from the stand and plenty of customers to meet. During the show Paul Jones and the rest of the team at MTDCNC joined us on the stand for a bit more information about the machines we were showing. Lyndsey Vickers interviewed our […]

Orders taken at MACH

Thursday April 21 2022

MACH 2022 proved a resounding success for Dugard Machine Tools, seeing us winning several orders and taking an unprecedented number of enquiries at the show. With four new machine tools on the stand, the crowds were certainly impressed by the breadth and diversity of the technology on show. It was a MACH debut and the […]

Hi-Spec tunes-up for automation gig

Tuesday March 23 2021

Now in its 17th year of business, Hi-Spec Precision Engineering Ltd has evolved from a small start-up business to an established subcontract manufacturer that has fully embraced the latest CNC technology and more recently automation technology to drive growth and productivity. The Market Overton company has evolved over the last decade to encompass everything from […]

Hanwha sliding head CNC lathes for exceptional one hit machining

Sunday November 29 2020

Hanwha sliding head CNC lathes at Dugard are a unique range from 7mm right up to 45mm on the sliding head (42mm guidebush and 45mm non guidebush sliding head).  Paul Jones from MTDCNC came to Hove to talk to Colin Thomson, our sliding head expert, watch the video underneath: Diverse range to cater for any industry […]

Nerc Precision turn to powerful, precise and scary SMEC SL3000

Thursday July 23 2020

Only founded two years ago, Nerc Precision Engineering Ltd (NPE) was set-up by Konrad Nerc to ‘follow his dreams’. The Bristol based business owner was working a full-time job whilst setting up NPE. Now, the dreams are becoming a reality as the company has just installed its first turning centre, a Dugard SMEC SL 3000LM. […]

Legal

Wednesday March 25 2020

Legal Privacy PolicyOur privacy policy was updated on 24 May 2018 and you can find it here – Dugard Privacy Policy Mailing ListIf you knowingly give us any personal information like email, name, address, phone number etc we will add these to our mailing list.  This shall be treated as proprietary and confidential.  If you subscribe […]

Videos

Wednesday March 25 2020

Video Library SMEC | Hanwha | ZOPO | Chevalier SMEC Videos Hanwha Sliding Head CNC Lathes Chevalier Grinder Range

Privacy Policy

Monday March 23 2020

Dugard privacy policy We’re pleased that you’ve shown interest in Dugard and we’d just like to take minute to explain our privacy policy as that is very important to us.  The privacy policy details how we process your information when you visit our website, https://www.dugard.com, receive marketing info or become one of our customers.  It also […]

Dr Kitamura talks about Kitamura machining centres

Wednesday September 18 2019

MTDCNC came down to our head office in Hove recently to talk to the owner of Kitamura, Dr Kitamura and our MD Eric, watch the video below.

Dutch firm MQ Statieven uses their Hanwha HCR-12 for space saving automation

Tuesday August 27 2019

Robotics and Automation is getting just that little bit closer, giving everyone in the UK the chance to see the Hanwha HCR-12 in action.