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Industry News

  • Do Your Suppliers Really Care About Your Needs?

    01 Nov 2003

    Most of the Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) approved companies have already achieved the new ISO 9001:2000 standard and the remainder are in the final stages of upgrading their systems. 

  • Managing Emotionally, Motivates Effectively

    01 Nov 2003

    Although many companies are undertaking business improvement programmes, fewer than 20% manage to achieve worthwhile results that significantly change business performance in the long term. For long-term success it is important to have managers who can motivate effectively says Mark Eaton, head of the MAS (South East & London) Work undertaken by Henley Management College has shown that managers who are effective motivators not only depend on their IQ to be successful but also make effective use of their EQ, their Emotional Intelligence Quotient. 

  • UK Companies Invited to Join US Trade Mission

    01 Nov 2003

    There are major opportunities for UK engineering companies to expand their US customer base. The Engineering Industries Association (EIA) is organising a trade mission to Chicago in February 2004, supported by Trade Partners UK, North American Directorate. 

  • Chemical Cocktails at Work Cause Concern

    01 Nov 2003

    In light of the European Commission's new registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals (REACH) proposal, which requires safety testing of tens of thousands of chemicals in household goods, Graham Stevens, managing director of Stevens Industrial Services Ltd, is concerned that despite warnings, products containing healththreatening chemicals continue to be used in the work place. 

Joining, Fabrication & Assembly

  • Flexible Fabricator Makes Customised Equipment

    01 Nov 2003

    Acres (Willington) Ltd, Derbyshire, provides a wide range of sub-contract fabrication, sheet-metalwork and machining services, as well as finished material handling equipment to customers' specifications. A new PDF brochure on the company's website 'Making the Equipment that Makes Your Products' demonstrates the diverse skills and high manufacturing standards that the have won the firm a prestigious client list. 

  • Pre-Applied Treatments Reduce Assembly Costs

    01 Nov 2003

    Redditch based Pre-Applied Technologies was established three years ago to service the needs of customers who require components supplied with pre-applied adhesives. As part of an expansion programme, it recently installed a £1.5 million production line for the application of threadlocking compounds to free-issued materials. 

  • Our Boys Remembered in Plasma Cut Spitfires

    01 Nov 2003

    The Spitfire Sculpture, on a road island in Castle Bromwich, marks the place where 12,000 Spitfires were built in the Aerodrome Factory between 1940 and 1945. 

  • New Bridge in Fair City was Bent for Walking

    01 Nov 2003

    The tilted, tied arches of the James Joyce bridge, together with other tubular construction members for the latest bridge to be built over the Liffey in Dublin, were cold formed by The Angle Ring Company Ltd, West Midlands. 

Precision Engineering

  • Gear Grind Service's Latest Delivery Completes £150k + Investment

    01 Nov 2003

    This month Gibbs Gears Precision Engineers, Tring, Hertfordshire took delivery of a 5-axis CNC lathe with live tooling for the production of shafts and bevel pinions. The lathe is part of a £150k+ investment in three machines, which also includes a matrix thread grinder for the 'grinding only' facility offered to other gear manufacturers. 

  • DNA Research Benefits from Local Partnership

    01 Nov 2003

    The successful production of some of the vital components used for mapping the human genome is a result of a long-standing relationship with two Cambridgeshire-based companies. 

  • Machine Shop Also Offers Material Supply Service

    01 Nov 2003

    Millbrook Precision Engineering has won a further three year contract to machine a new type of turret to be assembled on personnel carrier vehicles for an existing major customer. The general subcontract engineering company undertakes work up to 10t and 10ft diameter, and also offers a sourcing service for materials. 

  • Secondary Drilling Op Specialist Taps Where Others Fear To Thread

    01 Nov 2003

    Specialists in fine tolerance, secondary drilling operations, Drilling & Tapping Services Ltd (DATS), Alcester, can tap holes three to four times faster than its customers can. Manufacturing contracts have been won on the competitive quotes for outsourced secondary operation drilling and tapping offered by DATS. 

  • Water Jet Cutting Service Moves to the South West

    01 Nov 2003

    Originally established in Kent during 2001, World Wide Water Jet (www-jet) has grown along with demand for its services. The company has recently moved, securing more factory space together with a new sales office in Devizes, Wiltshire. 

  • Quality and Precision Meet Global Defence Standards

    01 Nov 2003

    To satisfy demand within the global defence and aerospace industry, sub-contractor Jefferson Engineering Services has recently invested over £2.5 million in seven 5-axis high speed machining centres at its premises in Ashford, Kent. 

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex