Not only did the company win the ‘Fastest Growing Distributor Award’ from Hyundai Wia, but all of its exhibiting principals enjoyed a successful show – with Hyundai Wia also collecting the major accolade of ‘Best New Milling Machine’ at EMO from MaschinenMarkt magazine.

After being presented with the award, Ward CNC managing director Simon Whitworth said that for Ward CNC to be recognised with such a Europe-wide award truly reflects the ongoing success of the company’s sales and support of these machines from both its Sheffield and Redditch sites.

Ward CNC is the exclusive UK and Ireland distributor for a host of companies that exhibited at EMO, with Hartford, Soraluce, Takisawa Japan and Takisawa Taiwan, plus Pinacho and Buffalo Machinery all announcing a raft of new products. However, it was the construction principles and technology features of the Hyundai Wia XF 2000 five-axis vertical machining centre that especially appealed to the EMO new product award judges.