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The UK branch of tooling supplier and design group R&D/Leverage, based in Sutton in Ashfield, has reported a 17% annual growth rate in gross sales value for the first six months of 2010. 6 July 2010

US-based hot runners and mould components company DME has signed a distribution agreement with Cumsa, a Spanish producer of technical standard parts for moulds, which gives DME exclusive access to the larger part of its new partner’s portfolio. 22 June 2010

Hot runner supplier Mold-Masters UK has restructured its operation with the relocation of its Birmingham office into the Mold-Masters European controller manufacturing plant at Rotherwas, Hereford. 10 June 2010

High Wycombe-based mould maker AF Gaskin is in administration. The UK business, which is being offered for sale by Amco on behalf of administrator Anthony Hyams of Marriotts, was established in 1970. 14 May 2010

Industry support for this year’s Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition and Conference is stronger than ever, with the British Design Innovation, British Plastics Federation, the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining/The Polymer Society, the Institution of Engineering Designers and the Gauge & Toolmakers Association all heralding it as the UK plastics industry’s number one event of the year. 5 May 2010

German machine tool manufacturer, Roeders, has introduced a three-axis, high speed cutting machining centre that the company says offers the best combination of size, dynamics and precision for producing larger, high-precision moulds and dies. 16 April 2010

Tooling component supplier DME has created a strategic alliance with hot runner firm Plastic Engineering & Technical Services to provide a complete package to improve processing. 11 March 2010

Following the recent launch of the first version of its PowerSHAPE CAD system incorporating Parasolid software, Delcam has introduced the 2010 release of its Toolmaker tooling design software, which now also incorporates Parasolid. 24 February 2010

Two mould component supply companies, Progressive Components of the US and Bru y Rubio of Spain, have made separate announcements about expansions in the UK market. 17 February 2010

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