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Automotive & Transport

  • Jobbing Press Shop Has New Work Horses

    01 Aug 2004

    Over the last few years GW Waite, Ulverston, the largest jobbing press shop in the Lake District, and a third tier supplier to the motor industry, has invested over £250,000 in three power presses to increase its production capacity and improve its product quality. The fully refurbished machines supplied by SMV Presses, Coventry, are two 125 tonne SMV FCP1250 fourcolumn mechanical presses, and one 80 tonne FCP800 complete with feeding equipment. 

  • Auto Supplier Installs MRP in Record Time

    01 Aug 2004

    Freeman & Proctor Limited, based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire manufactures custom pipe assemblies for aerospace and automotive customers such as Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin and Prodrive. 

  • £400k Fast Laser Cuts a Competitive Leading Edge

    01 Aug 2004

    Micrometric Limited, the Lincoln based laser cutting, welding and wire EDM specialist, has invested in a £400,000 Bystronic Bystar stateof-the-art laser, which it believes will give the company a competitive leading edge. The company supplies the automotive, power generation, engineering, medical, aerospace, power transmission, scientific, defence, and electronics industries. 

  • Coatings Firm has Sunroofs Covered

    01 Aug 2004

    Euro Quality Coatings Ltd the Cardiff based Powder Coating specialists have recently won a contract to powder coat aluminium sunroof components for Renault. 

  • Stationery Division Sold to Focus on Cold Forming

    01 Aug 2004

    Cold heading specialist and leaders in the manufacture of ball studs, predominantly used for attaching gas struts for the automotive industry, Fisco Fasteners is to strengthen its cold forming activities following the sale of the stationery products division. 

East Midlands Manufacturing Show

  • Marketing Services

    01 Aug 2004

    Panther Interactive Marketing is a strategic marketing consultancy with both engineering and marketing skills. 

  • Event Raises Profile of East Midland's Industry

    01 Aug 2004

    The positive image of manufacturing industry in the East Midlands was reinforced last year by the outstanding success of the first ever exhibition dedicated to promoting the region's industrial capability. The second East Midlands Manufacturing 2004 Exhibition takes place at Donington Park, Derby, 22-23 September, and promises to be the leading component sourcing, subcontracting and manufacturing technology exhibition for East Midlands' buyers and suppliers. 

  • Subcontract Calibration

    01 Aug 2004

    CMM (GB) Ltd, Leicester, a market leader in 3D co-ordinate metrology, and a provider of subcontract measuring services, is launching Actiris 350, a vision based portable coordinate measuring machine with 15 microns accuracy. CMM will be demonstrating its claims that Actiris 350 is the ideal tool for forming, moulding, fabricating, casting and assembly facilities needing manual and automated statistical analysis. 

  • Gears, Belts & Pulleys

    01 Aug 2004

    HPC Gears manufactures nonstandard parts to samples or drawings, and offers a comprehensive range of products ex-stock: Spiral and straight bevel gears, simplex, duplex and triplex sprockets and chains, racks, spur gears, helical gears, antibacklash gears, moulded gears, timing pulleys and belts, worms and wheels, ratchets & pawls, plastic chains and engineering materials including aluminium, mild steel, nylon, delrin and stainless steel. The new extended range also includes belt guides and tensioners. 

  • Tool Supplies

    01 Aug 2004

    Berger Tools are celebrating becoming a distributor of the ClewsTipco range of spiral ground high speed steel press tool punches, high grade steel dies; and the highest quality range of PCD (Polycrystalline Diamond) and PCBN (Polycrystalline Cubic Boron Nitride) tools. PCD tools guarantee a considerably longer life between regrinds than conventional cutting tool materials and have many operating advantages compared with single crystal diamond tools. On their stand, Berger Tools will also be displaying their new HR-series (compact lower height) nitrogen gas springs, and competitively priced mould products such as mould ejector pins, pillars and bushes. 

  • Electronic Controls

    01 Aug 2004

    FAW Electronics Ltd, Derbyshire, award-winning designers and manufacturers of customised electronic control solutions, is launching two new innovative products: t-mac (an internet enabled remote monitor and control device for facilities management); and the RGB Control System (for LED lighting control/effects). FAW's innovative designs are used by a variety of multinational companies spanning industry sectors from automation to quarry management, brewing to fume extraction and the shipping industry within UK, Europe and America. The company has recently purchased new surface mount production equipment to increase production capacity and cut leadtime by up to a quarter. 

  • Subcontract Machining

    01 Aug 2004

    Molyneux Engineering Ltd, Darley Dale, Derbyshire has a high speed laser cutting machine with automatic loading/unloading with which it competes with punch pressing in thin sheet metals but with no tooling costs, and smaller batch sizes. In addition to the laser facility the company offers pressbrake bending up to 3m long. 

  • Cryogenic Treatment

    01 Aug 2004

    Cryogenic Treatment Services will be promoting a range of services that change the molecular properties of a material and produce some desirable benefits. The range includes: 

  • Production Software

    01 Aug 2004

    Pathtrace Engineering Systems will launch the latest release of its EdgeCAM software on stand E5, and will demonstrate the latest features and functionality included in EdgeCAM version 9. This release sees the introduction of EdgeCAM Solid Machinist for CATIA V5, allowing users to load part and assembly files from CATIA V5 into EdgeCAM. Also enhanced with this release of the software is EdgeCAM Strategy Manager, which allows lead time reducing machining strategies to be saved as simple flow chart templates for machining similar components. 

Heavy Engineering

  • Car Crusher's Damaged Shaft Needs Heavy Lift

    01 Aug 2004

    In the large capacity workshop of John D Hotchkiss, West Kingsdown, Kent, three 32 tonne rotors are currently being rebuilt to repair bent shafts and worn bearing seats. 

  • Large Horizontal Honer Adds to Impressive Array

    01 Aug 2004

    Apperley Honing in Cheltenham are busy installing their eighth large horizontal-honing machine. 

  • Modern Steel Bridge Design Goes Up in Style

    01 Aug 2004

    When Northumberland County Council decided to construct a contemporarily designed bridge to replace and complement the existing Lesbury Mill Bridge, a 15th century masonary arch structure, Barnshaws Steel Bending was the contractor chosen to produce the two arched steel tubes that span the river. The bridge was opened in March this year and has been short listed for the Robert Stephenson Awards 2004, which provide a showcase for excellent examples of civil engineering across the region. 

Industry News

  • Searching for Contractors Made Easier with Online Directory 's Bookmarks

    01 Aug 2004

    Engineering Capacity, the only monthly UK magazine for manufacturers about subcontractors, has re-launched its Capacity Directory online at www.engineeringcapacity.com. 

  • Many Companies Have a False Perception of Their Own Performance

    01 Aug 2004

    According to various surveys over the last few years, more than 80% of companies would class themselves as either 'world class' or 'excellent' when compared to both their domestic and international competitors. 

  • National Composite Network Gets £30m

    01 Aug 2004

    Speaking at the Farnborough Airshow, last month, Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt announced a new £30 million network to disseminate lighter, stronger composites technologies for aerospace, automotive and other industries. "The UK is a world leader in research into composite materials, but we haven't exploited the technology as widely as we could - it's vital for manufacturers, who are responsible for 75% of all R&D in the UK, to have the best possible access to information", she said. 

  • Study Shows Shape of Things to Come in the Auto-Industry

    01 Aug 2004

    The global automotive industry is evolving in ways that will result in the industry's suppliers, not the automakers themselves, conducting some 80% of automotive R&D and production by the year 2015 (compared with 63% now), as automakers restrict their own share of production to those components that are crucial to the success of their brands. Automakers who hesitate to change their existing development and production structures will be at a serious competitive disadvantage over the next decade. 

Wire, Tube, Forming & Presswork

  • Deep Drawn Metal Wins Over Moulded Plastic in Strength and Shape

    01 Aug 2004

    Holdfast Manufacturing Limited, a leading designer and producer of deep drawn presswork and sub assemblies for use within demanding environments, has recently completed a contract for a customer who needed Holdfast's skills in tooling and deep drawn presswork to overcome a major problem with a part for the American market. 

  • New £90k Spring Coiler Sorts Out the Good, from the Long, and the Short

    01 Aug 2004

    For a company of its small size, Alpha Springs Ltd, Hertfordshire, works with an unusually wide range of wire diameters; from 19mm down to 0.3mm. The acquisition of a £90k high speed, fully programmable, spring making machine has not only improved consistency and efficiency on an ongoing contract for conical springs, but has also increased output by a factor of eight. 

  • Exceptional Services Avoided Shut Down

    01 Aug 2004

    Capital Springs and Pressings, Edenbridge, has been presented with an achievement award in recognition of exceptional services by a grateful international electronics company whose sophisticated 24/7 machinery kept breaking down. Within ten days Capital Springs and Pressings had redesigned and supplied an improved component that saved the client from total shut down. 

  • Tube Fabrication Expert Cuts into the Market for Box Section Structures

    01 Aug 2004

    Cooney Marine International, Northants, well known in the marine trade for the design and manufacture of fine quality, mirror finish, stainless steel yacht equipment and deck fittings, is applying its laser cutting, and fabrication capabilities in the construction of box section structures for the food industry for the first time. 

  • Bent Wire Expertise Solves Design Problems

    01 Aug 2004

    Design and application engineers at William Hughes have been manufacturing high quality, low cost components for over 200 years. 

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