Automation Parts

Micro Metalsmiths Makes Fuel Cap For Spyker Micro Metalsmiths has developed and manufactured a specialist fuel cap for Dutch luxury car manufacturer, Spyker. The fuel cap, which features Spyker's company emblem, took less than eight weeks to deliver and will feature on all production cars. Micro Metalsmiths had to quickly re-engineer the production tool, which was completed in only two weeks. This needed to be more economical and less complex to machine, while providing an aesthetically pleasing appearance.

Micro Metalsmiths Opens Machining Facility Micro Metalsmiths has launched an advanced, high-efficiency machining facility, based around its recent acquisition of nine CNC Fanuc Robodrill machines. The facility is at Kirkbymoorside, near York, and is one of the company's two production sites in North Yorkshire. The launch event was attended by customers of Micro Metalsmiths, senior representatives of major international equipment suppliers and consultants to the facility. These included Mike Fujita, president and chief executive officer of Fanuc Robodrill Europe, and Mike Berry, general manager of 600 UK, part of machine tools group 600 Group plc. Guests heard Christopher Shaw, Micro Metalsmiths's chairman and managing director, detail the reasons behind the company's decision to create a dedicated, centralised machining facility - capable of both manned and unmanned machining operations - and to make a major investment in the latest Fanuc Robodrill technology. He said t...