Andy McHugh, Author at XYZ Machine Tools

Parts made on XYZ Machines help Metallic Elephant to grow

Aug 19, 2025 | Customer Success Stories

The alternative American rock band REM once had a hit with the song Shiny Happy People. That song would be the perfect anthem for Karl and Ros French, the founders of Metallic Elephant. Working out of a secluded set of farm buildings in the village of Frating in...

It’s a life on the ocean wave for parts made on XYZ Machines.

Jul 14, 2025 | Customer Success Stories

For almost 40 years, Pendennis Shipyard (www.pendennis.com) has been building, refitting and restoring fully custom superyachts. Located on a 14-acre waterfront site in the idyllic town of Falmouth, Cornwall, they have continued to invest in both their facilities and...

Traditional homeware products made in the UK on modern XYZ Machine Tools

Jul 14, 2025 | Customer Success Stories

There is an English figurative expression “when needs must” and in 1994 this term was exactly what Jim Lawrence had to do as the realisation that rearing pigs and cows on a small-scale farm in east Anglia was not going to be profitable. Being of a resourceful nature,...

XYZ Machine Tools help tackle the skills shortage ….in Europe.

Jul 9, 2025 | News

The engineering skills shortage that we hear so much about and, for many companies, are actually experiencing, is not unique to the UK. Across Europe the same messages are coming out of countries across the English Channel and North Sea. As Governments promise...

XYZ Machine Tools and Ceratizit working together to ensure a winning combination

Jun 2, 2025 | Customer Success Stories, News

For over 15 years, XYZ Machine Tools and Ceratizit have had a partnership where they support each other’s activities with shared values and vision, long-term thinking and transparent communication. This collaboration, which started with a chance meeting of Glenn...

City of Wolverhampton College invests in engineers of the future.

Apr 9, 2025 | Customer Success Stories, News

Educating the next generation of engineers and specifically machinists is paramount to the continued success of UK PLC. City of Wolverhampton College has made a major investment in a range of machinery, ensuring local businesses have access to a pool of young talent...

Its plastic fantastic for Leeds based parts supplier having invested in XYZ Bed Mill

Mar 7, 2025 | Customer Success Stories, News

Manufacturing parts that are used in everything from bakeries and canning lines to sub sea submersibles, betting shops and poodle parlours, Leeds based Industrial Plastics Supplies produce a range of products that are used in some of the unlikeliest of places and are...

XYZ mill is perfect tonic for NHS Trust workshop

Mar 7, 2025 | Customer Success Stories, News

A new XYZ RMX 3500 milling machine fitted with the ProtoTRAK® RX Touchscreen control, has reduced machining time from weeks to hours for bespoke products at the workshop of a major London NHS Trust. The Mechanical Engineering Workshop for Barts Health NHS Trust is now...

Small but ambitious APF Services moves into CNC machining and sees immediate gains

Jan 27, 2025 | Customer Success Stories

Small but ambitious APF Services moves into CNC machining and sees immediate gains APF Services, a small but progressive two-man business specialising in hydraulic repair work, has invested in its first CNC machine, a Proturn RLX 425 CNC lathe with ProtoTRAK® control...