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• Renishaw warns on profits and 500 jobs go

  - 2009-03-12

  Briefing RENISHAW, the precision measuring equipment manufacturer, is to axe 500 jobs after it issued a profits warning and said it was suffering from an unprecedented downturn in demand for its products. Of its 2,240 global workforce, the majority of the job losses will be among its...

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• High accuracy radio touch probe—Renishaw, booth 3033

  - 2008-05-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Renishaw RMP600 touch probe combines two of the company's technologies--high-accuracy strain gage sensing and frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum radio transmission. The design allows for checking precision on five-axis machining, contours, deep cavities, undercuts and more, where obstacles or part features can block transmission by optical line-of-sight probes. This...

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• Touch probe delivers accuracy, repeatability—Renishaw, booth 4016

  - 2008-03-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The RMP600 touch probe is designed for applications involving five-axis machining, contours, deep cavities, undercuts and others where obstacles or part features can block transmission by optical line-of-sight probes. According to manufacturer Renishaw, the probe enables rapid, automated part setup and change-over, in-process control of critical dimensions...

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• Renishaw revs up on REVO.

  - 2008-01-23

  Profitability is improving at Renishaw due to strong demand for its new coordinate measuring probes and an improving exchange rate environment Stephen Gunnion Strong demand for its new REVO measuring head and probe system and a weaker pound mean the improvement seen in...

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• FARO's Exclusive SENSOR Probe by Renishaw Improves Productivity, Data Confidence.

  - 2007-12-05

  FRANKFURT, Germany, December 5 /PRNewswire/ -- FARO Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: FARO), the world sales leader in portable computer-aided measurement arms and laser trackers, announced that its strategic alliance with Renishaw has produced the FARO SENSOR, an advanced probe for measurement arms that increases user...

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• RENISHAW

  - 2007-07-28

  The UK engineering group Renishaw is a world leader in hi-tech industries such as metrology, spectroscopy and dental technology. This week's results showed a better than expected 25 per cent jump in profits, and plans for next year sound promising. South-east Asia and China have been the most profitable geographical...

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• Renishaw

  - 2007-07-26

  Our view: Buy Current price: 684p Dental technology, metro-logy (the science of measurement, apparently) and spectroscopy are all hi-tech, specialised industries, yet the UK engineering group Renishaw has become one of the world leaders in all of them. Its products can be found in...

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• New product launches boost Renishaw.

  - 2007-07-26

  Shares surge after a positive forecast from Renishaw and better than expected results in the face of the strong pound. Stephen Gunnion Renishaw is considering taking out a hedging contract against the Japanese yen, and will look at assembling more of its products in India...

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• Renishaw Invests in Delcam

  - 2007-05-01

  CAM developer Delcam plc (Birmingham, UK) announced that it had conditionally raised £6,096,208 before expenses through a placing of 1,524,052 new ordinary shares on the London Stock Exchange with metrology supplier Renishaw pic (New Mills, Wotton-underEdge, Gloucestershire, UK) at £4.00 per share. The net proceeds will be used to fund...

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• Renishaw shares take 12% tumble

  - 2007-01-25

  The engineering group Renishaw was hit by a 12 per cent fall in first-half profits. It also warned that weak demand and the strong pound would hurt its annual results, sending its shares down 14 per cent. Renishaw reported a pre-tax profit of [pound]13.5m for the six months to end-December.

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