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Knitting is for the birds
KnitMesh Technologies has supplied knitted mesh for the world’s largest free flight aviary – the 2.3 hectare sanctuary at Birds of Eden in South Africa.
Get online for an instant laser quote
A new service from Microkerf will provide customers with access to an instant, online quoting and ordering service for its laser cut parts. The company believes it is the first in the UK to offer this service and one of only a handful worldwide.
600 Group drops China sourcing
Machine tool manufacturer 600 Group has pulled back from outsourcing production to China because of the poor levels of quality and consequent warranty claims.
Face the dragons with a quality model
With more and more entrepreneurs, start-ups and young companies eager to enter the 'Dragon's Den' with their ideas for new products, Warley Design Solutions has launched a ‘concept demonstrator’ service that will let them get their message across with a high quality physical model.
Rodmatic automates for green contract
Rodmatic Multico, the volume production division of Rodmatic, has completed the first stage investment to produce 20,000 mechanical components a week for assembly in energy efficiency monitoring equipment.
Bodycote Testing relaunches as Exova
Bodycote Testing Group has been relaunched as Exova. The new name and identity has been prompted by the sale of the business by Bodycote plc last October to private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier and Rice (CD&R).
DSK acts fast to keep customer satisfied
With a customer planning an ambitious growth programme DSK Engineering realised it was time for action. It moved fast to invest in a new punch press so that it could maintain delivery and quality at the level the customer had come to expect.
Continuous investment gives R & G the edge
Investments in CNC machinery totalling £600,000 in 2008 and a further £275,000 in 2009 have helped Rushden-based R & G Precision improve its service and maintain a competitive edge.
Salt of the earth
Heavy engineering specialist Parsons Reiss will be helping to keep traffic flowing next winter following the supply of two pairs of crushing rollers for Cheshire-based Salt Union.
Plastics firm targets superbugs
A plastics manufacturing company says it can help hospitals and hospital suppliers to make many of the products and components found in wards in a way which is cheaper, more durable – and easier to sterilise.
Mould facility overhaul at ARRK
ARRK Tooling Development Ltd has completely modernized its Langrish tooling facility to increase efficiency and add extra moulding capacity. The company has invested around £500,000 in the plant so far to cope with a significant increase in work.
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Investment in service is self-funded
Hunslet-based Garcross Engineering has invested in a £350,000 management suite that will help it maintain high levels of service to customers and link shop floor technology with IT systems. The company says this latest investment demonstrates the benefits of funding expansion through the business rather than relying on borrowings.
Carr’s up the power of laser welding
Following the purchase of new Trumpf TruDisk 4002 system, Carr’s Welding Technologies is the first UK subcontractor to be able to offer solid state laser welding at 4kW power.
A seat for The Gadget Show
When the Gadget Show decided to make a ‘gadget chair’ that would incorporate viewers’ design suggestions it turned to Graham Parish Engineering to come up with a twenty-first century take on Jimmy Saville’s ‘Jim’ll Fix It’ chair.
Angle Ring now offers small tube forming
Angle Ring is well known for its ability to roll and bend complex shapes in large size sections up to 30 metre long. Now it is expanding its activities to offer a general metal tube forming service for diameters as small as 16mm.
Supply Chain News
Scan old drawings into new CAD files
With drawing scanning large, wide format documents can be converted into digitised images that can be recognised, and manipulated, by a computer. The principal advantage of drawing scanning over a paper-based system is that drawings in electronic form are much easier to store and manage.
Poorly made in China?
A new book gives an insider's account of disturbing tactics used by some Chinese suppliers. These include winning contracts on a loss-making basis and then progressively reducing quality to strip cost out of the job.
Comments & Analysis
A new kind of financial forecasting
Russell Grant’s team of psychics are taking more and more calls from business owners trying to see into their commercial future.
Don’t muddy the water when it comes to saving energy
We are constantly being asked and cajoled by the Government to reduce energy costs, writes Steve Cupples of Industrial Purification Systems. Now the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is urging the Government to commit to reducing emissions of all greenhouse gasses in the UK by at least 34 percent in 2020.
