Welcome to The 600 Group PLC

Welcome to 600 Group, the UK's largest machine tool company.

The Group operates from 20 locations worldwide and sells products in over 180 countries.

There are two core areas of business activity centred on machine tool and laser marking excellence.

Laser Marking Division: Electrox provides laser marking solutions for a huge range of materials and applications, through its operations in the UK and USA.  Electrox is one of the few truly integrated manufacturers of laser marking systems in the world, taking end-to-end responsibility for every aspect of design, development and production of both hardware and software technologies.

Machine Tool Division: 600 Group is one of the world's leading names in the manufacture and global distribution of state-of-the-art machine tools. Principal products within the internationally renowned Colchester-Harrison range include Tornado CNC turning centres, Alpha CNC combination lathes, Storm vertical machining centres and conventional centre lathes.

600 North America, based in Michigan, supplies Group products throughout the region, including the Clausing range of machine tools.

The 600 Europe operation in Stuttgart, Germany, distributes 600 Group products throughout Western and Central Europe.  Additionally, it distributes workholding accessories under the Parat brand.

The Group’s international distribution centres also stock and ship a wide range of workholding accessories manufactured for other machine builders, most of which are manufactured in the Group’s UK facilities. These accessories include manual and power chucking products from Pratt Burnerd, workholding products from Crawford Collets and precision machine tool bearings from Gamet Bearings.

To support these comprehensive product ranges, a complete technical support service is available for all customers, including on-site service engineering and extensive spare parts stockholding for the installed base of existing machines.