C Dugard's network of machine tool distributors and agents throughout Europe and Russia has paved the way for the company's appointment to represent Ermaksan.

C Dugard's network of machine tool distributors and agents throughout Europe and Russia has paved the way for the company's appointment to represent one of the largest sheetmetal equipment specialists in Europe, Turkey-based Ermaksan. In addition to the UK, C Dugard will represent European and Russian territories with the equipment branded under the Dugard Ermaksan name. Says Eric Dugard, managing director: 'We set up this very effective network of machine suppliers for our Dugard Eagle range of machining centres and CNC lathes and to reinforce our used machine tool business as a source to obtain equipment for customers and as a very successful outlet for customer part exchange machines.

It was this networking capability that inspired Hyundai-Kia to appoint us to represent them in Russia and drew Ermaksan to use us for its range of CNC punch presses, press brakes, shears and guillotines.

This takes us into a totally new area of machine tool engineering and builds our operation into a true 'one-stop' machine tool business.' In the UK, Dugard has teamed up with sheetmetal and fabrication equipment specialist Chiviott Machine Tools of Ford Airfield, Arundel, West Sussex, a company with more than 30 years experience in the sheetmetal business.

While a selection of Ermaksan's product range will be installed at the Hove site of Dugard, the full range will be represented at Chiviott's Arundel showroom where demonstration and sales support will be provided.

Ermaksan has taken stand 4832 in Hall 4, at MACH 2006 to launch the range of equipment in the UK.

The stand will be manned by Chiviott sales and applications engineers with the support of C Dugard.

Ermaksan was set up in Bursa, Turkey in 1965 and operates from a 15,000 m2 facility.

The complete range covers CNC punch presses, CNC and conventional hydraulic press brakes, CNC hydraulic variable rake guillotine shears, hydraulic swing-beam shears and mechanical guillotine shears.