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Six Month Trials Lead to Full Production for New Zinc Phosphating Plant
01 Sep 2003
After six months of trials, an experimental, purpose-built zinc phosphating plant at New Phoenix Engineering, in Rochester, has succeeded in producing batches of the high quality finish, with a very precise, tight molecular structure, required by a large blue chip automotive company.
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Giant Dip Tank Offers best Protective Process for Ferrous Components
01 Sep 2003
Recent autophoretic (AP) coating work for Trelleborg has utilised the giant dip tank at ABT Products, based in Ross-on-Wye, which, when the plant was installed three years ago, had the largest product envelop of any facility in Europe, allowing ABT to pre-treat large fabrications within its 3.2m x 2m x 2m frame.
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Re-Conditioned Worn Parts are Better Than New
01 Sep 2003
Metallic Protective Plating, Warwick, is currently trialling the use of their own version of functional chrome - Metallichrom, to repair machines that manufacture ink-jet cartridges for a leading computer company.components can be costly to manufacture or replace. By using Metallichrom to salvage worn or over-machined precision parts, sometimes a better than new condition is attained.
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Use of Aluminium Grows As Surfaces Get Harder
01 Sep 2003
The limiting factor in the use of aluminium has always been the soft surface and tendency to wear. Abbey Metal Finishing (Amfin) of Nuneaton believes that they have found the solution in their recent installation of a Keronite surface treatment facility.
Industry News
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Despite Long Hours, SME Bosses 'Relish Freedom'
01 Sep 2003
BusinessEurope.com reports that despite having to cope with the pressures of long hours, red tape and late payment, financial experts Xbridge found only 42% of entrepreneurs would work for someone else if they absolutely had to. The majority of UK small business owners value their freedom to such an extent that they would never work for anyone else, new research has revealed. Many would never go back to paid work.
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End to End Manufacturing Event Offers a Feast of Knowledge for Visitors
01 Sep 2003
In 2002, Penton Media Europe's Total Engineering And Manufacturing event (TEAM) attracted an audience of 6,219 senior buyers, with 57% board/senior management level and 72% of visitors having purchasing authority within their companies. This year, 11-13 November 2003, the NEC, Birmingham will again feature show floors packed with exhibits to enable companies to improve productivity and overall efficiency levels.
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Defence Expert Export
01 Sep 2003
Mark Eaton, Head of the MAS (South East & London), is concerned that companies in the manufacturing industry might be spending unnecessarily in areas of research and product development, because the information they seek might already be available within the defence sector.
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HSE Seeks Views On Regulation of First Aid
01 Sep 2003
Workplaces are changing. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is currently seeking views on the future regulation of first aid at work. Every employer and selfemployed person has a duty to make provision for first aid in their workplace, and their responses will help the HSE determine whether any changes to existing duties or guidance needs to be made.
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Heat and Surface Treatment Technology
01 Sep 2003
The GTMA, the UK's leading trade association representing, tool making, metrology, precision machining, rapid product development and tooling technologies, is organising an event, entitled "Reduce Costs - Solve Problems", on 5th November, hosted by Yamazaki Machinery UK Ltd. , at its Bridgenorth Drive, Worcester location.
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Product Development Needs to be Treated Lean
01 Sep 2003
''The product design and development process is one of the few remaining areas of the industrial enterprise to be subjected to lean thinking. If the manufacturing industry in the UK is to survive, this is one of the vital areas that can make or break a company's future prospects and therefore should operate in the most efficient way possible.'' Explains Dr Colin Mynott, managing director of T.I.C.S. , the product development research and training company.
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Midlands Manufacturers Break into Wind Market
01 Sep 2003
''The Midlands is the first region in the UK to recognise the huge potential to manufacture wind farm components, and start to work as a region to unlock it, '' says Bob Dorman, project manager of WindSupply WM at the Midlands Environmental Business Company (MEBC).
Welsh & South West Manufacturing
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Boring Specialist Hones Manufacturing Skills to Move Up Supply Chain
01 Sep 2003
Having re-located, re-equipped and settled in the last eight months, Perfect Bore (Stand F19) has recently taken on the initial machining and final assembly of a set of critical components that were previously sent to them only for precision match-honing. The company provided quicker and cheaper turnaround of the finished assembly, and is now looking for further opportunities to enlarge its role in the supply chain.
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Huntingdon Gives Weld Advice from Burry Port
01 Sep 2003
The first complete financial year of operations in Wales, has just passed successfully at Huntingdon Fusion Techniques, following the business move from the congestion of Huntingdon near Cambridge, to Burry Port, Carmarthenshire.
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Think Tank Shapes Services for Industry
01 Sep 2003
The outcome of discussions that took place at the first meeting of the National Metals Technology (NAMTEC) Advisory Council this month will help shape the direction of NAMTEC's future services.
