Saturday 30 August 08 - 13:22
 

Automotive & Transport

    Stationery Division Sold to Focus on Cold Forming

    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. 

    Coatings Firm has Sunroofs Covered

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

    £400k Fast Laser Cuts a Competitive Leading Edge

    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. 

    Auto Supplier Installs MRP in Record Time

    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. 

    Jobbing Press Shop Has New Work Horses

    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. 

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