Manufacturing drawings for drilling equipment and various woodworking machinery formerly made by Rye Technology/Rye CMS Ltd have been purchased by a Somerset-based engineering company.
Applied Drilling Systems Ltd, which used to make spares for Rye CMS, bought the drawings following the latter’s liquidation in October last year. They relate to drilling equipment, shaping machines, tenoners, mortisers and other machinery.
It enables Applied Drilling Systems, to make and supply spare parts for all the older (non-CNC) Rye machines. The company says it may have the future ability to offer complete sub-assemblies, such as the PD3 drill units.
Meanwhile, former Rye CMS technical director Tony Nagiel is looking forward to moving to new premises as general manager of CMS Group (UK) Ltd. The company, set up following the liquidation of Rye CMS and currently based at parent company SCM in Nottingham, sells CMS’s range of Italian-manufactured machinery and also provides service and support for Rye machines.
A total of 11 staff, 10 of whom formerly worked at Rye, will move into a new building in Nottingham in the coming weeks.
The company also sells the QM 3-axis CNC maching centre formerly made by Rye, but now under the CMS brand.
Mr Nagiel, who had worked for Rye for 35 years, said the demise of the Rye name after more than 60 years was very sad.
He said: “Basically, the company was struggling under the burden of manufacturing costs. The site at High Wycombe was very expensive to rent and labour costs in the south-east were higher than elsewhere. The costs in the UK are just so much higher than in Italy and Germany.”
