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ThyssenKrupp Material appoints Billy Kingsbury as CEO

ThyssenKrupp Material appoints Billy Kingsbury as CEO

The Holding company board of directors ThyssenKrupp Material service appointed Chief Operating Officer Billy Kingsbury as CEO of the company. Billy Kingsbury has already played...
A graphic of one of the fixtures for machining a nuclear waste bin, showing the positions of the hydraulic swing clamps and one set of internal airbags that dampen vibrations. A second set of airbags is inserted into the workpiece itself to provide an equal and opposite holding force before machining starts.

Kingsbury’s novel fixture for machining nuclear waste containers

Decommissioning legacy nuclear waste silos on a former UK power generating site at Sellafield requires a large number of bins to be machined to close geometrical tolerances to ensure safe stacking.

Kingsbury plans German manufacturing plant

Following the opening of the Kingsbury sales office in Göttingen, Germany, in 2012, officials at the company have announced plans to expand into manufacturing. According to managing director, Dr Morched Medhioub, "The decision to move into manufacturing Kingsbury bearings, made in the first quarter of 2013, was the natural outgrowth from the initial success of our European headquarters that serves Germany, Austria and Switzerland.