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Fabrication

  • One-Hit Machining Boosts Contract Manufacturing

    01 May 2006

    Exhibiting next month at the North West Manufacturing event (see page 9) for the second successive year, the Ferranti Group has just invested £300k to develop its one-hit machining capabilities. Ferranti has established itself as one of the UK's leading outsourced manufacturing and assembly specialists. 

  • New Blood Skills Training Scheme Breaks the Mould

    01 May 2006

    Four young men have taken up apprenticeships this year at Martec Engineering. To ensure they achieve the range of skills necessary, Martec has created a 21st Century Crafts apprenticeship whereby the new apprentices will not only achieve skills in welding and fabrication, but also make them accomplished in metal work including machining metal as well as design in engineering. 

  • New Press Brake Meets Growing Demand

    01 May 2006

    Arc Energy Resources has invested in a new £45,000 CNC Press Brake to meet the growing demand for its specialised fabrication services from existing customers. The 150 tonne press brake, which can form sheet lengths up to 3,600mm, will also enable Arc Energy to accommodate larger fabrications and handle a greater variety of work. 

  • Spiral Curves Formed on Aluminium Extrusions

    01 May 2006

    Holden Aluminium Technologies Ltd (HAT), which specialises in the fabrication and forming of aluminium extrusion, launched a new development in spiral forming at this year's Interbuild Show at the NEC, last month. The technique has been developed over the last five years and allows an aluminium section to follow the inner path of a spiral stairway; it is now in daily use for the manufacture of stair lift rails. 

Industry News

  • Tour Explores Potential of Bulgarian Engineering

    01 May 2006

    A GTMA-organised trade mission to Sophia and Plovdiv in Bulgaria, takes place 18-23 June, 2006. 

  • Will Engineers Ever Be The Toast Of Great Britain Again?

    01 May 2006

    Do a stove-pipe hat and cigar really convey the excitement of working with the cutting-edge technologies of the twenty-first century, or suggest the importance of the scientific and technological issues which urgently need to be debated? Christine MacLeod asks the question in 'The Nineteenth-Century Engineer as Cultural Hero', one of the essays in a new book 'Brunel: In Love with the Impossible' published last month by Brunel200 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Isambard Kingdom Brunel. 

  • Profits Needed from Value Added Services to Enhance Margins

    01 May 2006

    Progressive manufacturers realise they can no longer compete in the mass production market, as relying on a cost reduction strategy alone is not a guarantee of a sustainable future. As well as investing in R&D, these companies are looking to create a range of added value services to enhance the margins of their innovative core products, says Arthur Richardson, director of the South West MAS. 

  • Year 2100 Scenarios Seed Ideas for Energy Options

    01 May 2006

    Speakers at Energy 2100 in London this month, presented a range of energy options and discussed their analyses and scenarios for the year 2100. Supply was the primary focus. 

North West Manufacturing

Precision Engineering

  • Precision Welding Added to Machining Line Up

    01 May 2006

    Lancashire-based, precision component manufacturer, Merc Engineering UK Ltd, has dramatically expanded its scope of work in the past 12 months, resulting in a substantial investment in CNC EDM wire and spark erosion, fast hole drilling and a brand new welding department approved to stringent DIN 6700 standard. 

  • Training Safeguards Skills and Knowledge Base

    01 May 2006

    Precision turned components specialist APT Leicester has become one of the few manufacturing companies in the Midlands to continue investing in young engineering talent - by offering a three year indentured apprenticeship to 17-year old, Sean Jordan. 

  • Delivery of New Machine Takes Detour via MACH

    01 May 2006

    Before the doors opened at MACH 2006, Macro CNC had already sold two of the Miyano fixed head turning centres that appeared on its stand. One of the machines, a Miyano BNJ-42SY, was purchased by subcontract precision turned components manufacturer HS Rowe and Partners Ltd. The 42mm capacity two spindle, two turret compact turning centre with Y-axis will be delivered to HS Rowe's Kingswinford facility in the Midlands immediately after the exhibition. 

  • First Sod Turned at Build New Etching Plant

    01 May 2006

    Precision Micro, the Birmingham based precision component manufacturer has taken the first step along the path to a brand new future by 'turning the first sod' in construction of what is believed to be the only purpose built etching plant in Europe. In order to achieve a seamless transition, over a million pounds of investment in new plant and equipment will enable the new site to be producing before manufacturing at the existing facility ceases. 

  • Owner's Succession Plans Allow MBO Deal

    01 May 2006

    Hampshire-based Lymington Precision Engineers Limited (LPE) has obtained a multi million pound financing package from GE Commercial Finance's Business Finance unit to facilitate a management buy-out. The current owner, Leon Crouch is now handing over the reins of the company to the existing management team, while maintaining an interest in LPE. 

  • Measurement of Critical Parts Eased with Rubber

    01 May 2006

    Measuring the surfaces of such intricate but critical components for Formula One and aerospace sectors used to prove quite a challenge for Middlesex-based Double M Engineering. Now, however, the company uses Reprorubber, a metrology-grade self-curing rubber product from the USA, distributed in UK by QGS to assist in the measurement task. 

  • High Spec CNC Changes Mindset and Productivity

    01 May 2006

    An integral part of the high specification CNC equipment at family run Advanced Coil Slitters (ACSL), is a Tornos Deco 26a sliding head turning centre. 

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