Yamawa Europe announces the appointment of Kyocera Unimerco as new exclusive distributor for the UK
With several production sectors and areas of excellence such as aerospace, automotive, power generation, offshore, medical and general machining, the UK represents one of the most important markets in Europe for the consumption of machine tools including threading solutions. The levels of needs span from the high performance requirements of high tech based segments involved with machining of hard to machine materials and alloys to the flexibility required by factories and workshops dealing with general machining applications.
“Being able to serve properly one of the key European markets such as the UK has been a top priority for us since the beginning of Yamawa Europe operations back in January 2016,” says Alessandro Sorgato, CEO of Yamawa Europe. “I believe that the opportunity to work with a top player such as Kyocera Unimerco is exactly what we were looking for, especially as we want to reach customers through very experienced and highly qualified representatives. The profile of Kyocera Unimerco is perfect as they combine a huge knowledge of the market with significant technical experience.”
“We are looking forward to adding the distribution of Yamawa products to the portfolio of solutions we can offer to our clients in UK,” says Steve Marsh, national sales director, Kyocera Unimerco. “Our strong technical expertise allows us to advise and supply the right tool solutions to the industrial market in the UK and we believe that with Yamawa high performance threading solutions we have the opportunity to bring further additional value to our customers throughout the country.”
Headquartered in Tokyo, Yamawa is a world leader in threading tools manufacturing with four highly specialised factories all located in Japan.
With a monthly production capacity of over 1.600.000 taps, since its foundation in 1923, Yamawa differentiates itself for focusing entirely on threading solutions, massive R&D investments and its excellent quality control process, built over a rigorously defined protocol including triple quality control on 100 percent of production and regular control of machines calibration.
Yamawa threading solutions are known worldwide for their excellent quality and precision resulting in customers’ overall lower cost per thread and reliability of production processes.
Yamawa started operations of Yamawa Europe, based in Mestre-Venezia, Italy in January 2016, in order to make the whole potential of Yamawa product range and know-how easily and more rapidly available to customers in Europe.
Kyocera Unimerco Tooling Ltd (Sheffield) specialises in delivering productivity increases and cost savings for the industrial market in the UK, through the correct application of high performance cutting tools and machining strategies primarily in the general machining, aerospace, off-shore and medical industries.
For further information about Yamawa and Kyocera Unimerco, visit www.yamawa.eu and www.kyocera-unimerco.co.uk
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