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Casting, Forging & Extrusion
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'LiftOff Equips Aerospace Firm To Double Turnover
01 Jan 2007
A Leicester castings business set to double its turnover to £8m next year thanks to the introduction of specialist software. Lestercast owes its success to the LiftOff scheme delivered by the Manufacturing Advisory Service in the East Midlands, which helps regional aerospace-related companies boost their profits.
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Auto Suppliers Accelerate Toward Industry Awards
01 Jan 2007
The largest automotive awards competition in the UK came to a glittering finale last week, with a traditional Black Country forge, an engine propulsion specialist and one of Toyota’s best suppliers securing the major honours and £25k in prize money.
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New Talent Trained for Specialist Workforce
01 Jan 2007
Sheffield Forgemasters International Ltd (SFIL) has taken on a new batch of apprentices to add to its specialist engineering workforce. The 200- year-old company is continuing to take a proactive role in putting crucial engineering skills back into the industry through its outstanding apprenticeship scheme.
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Escalation In Material Prices Makes Extrusion Process A Viable Option
01 Jan 2007
Osborn Steel Extrusions Ltd, the Bradford based subsidiary of Osborn Metals, has been awarded further contracts for another seven extruded titanium profiles for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. These new orders add to a large range of profiles for use by most of the major aircraft and aero engine manufacturers.
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Reduced Risk of Porosity Continues to Win Orders
01 Jan 2007
UK sales of castings and machined castings from Gebrüder Kemper GmbH grew to £1.3m in 2006. The company’s continued success in this area is due to its guarantee of reduced risk of porosity in castings according to Chris Rhodes, sales and marketing director, of Kemper Rhodes UK. Sales of water distribution valves for thermal balancing by Kemper Rhodes UK has also exceeded previous year on year sales.
Comments & Analysis
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A Great New Year Needs Reflection and Planning
01 Feb 2007
For many in the business community, this time of year provides a great chance to catch your breath, reflect and plan.
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Supply Network Capabilities Drive Global Opportunities
01 Jan 2007
The capability of a company's supply network has become critically important in a period of unprecedented change in the international industrial arena. Centres of market demand are changing rapidly forcing OEMs to relocate to access new markets. How do companies assess whether their networks of overseas facilities and partners are continuing to be appropriate for the current competitive situation? If they are not, what changes are required?
Heavy Engineering
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Largest Ever Section of Hardened Nickel Alloy Cut
01 Jan 2007
A call for help to Howco Metals Management, experts in steel stockholding, engineering and heat treatment processing, resulted in the Sheffiled company sawing 1,092mm diameter, notoriously tough, nickel alloy ingots into smaller pieces, despite uncontrolled cooling having resulted in a large internal blow hole in one of the ingots. It is believed to be the largest section of such alloy ever cut.
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Difficult Elbow Cladding Project Completed To Tight Delivery Schedule
01 Jan 2007
Part of a contract awarded by Shell’s Stanlow Refinery to Salfordbased Langfields Ltd, one of the UK’s leading fabricators of components in nickel alloy, titanium and reactive metals, involved cladding four 36” carbon steel elbows with stainless steel.
Industry News
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Report Urges Nurture of New Products
01 Feb 2007
A new report from the DTI Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) is urging manufacturing companies to invest in new product development in order to remain competitive globally.
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Subcon 2007
01 Feb 2007
Subcon 2007 takes place from 1st to 3rd May at the NEC, Birmingham. The international show for buyers of subcontracting, will offer visitors the whole spectrum of contract manufacturing services from machined parts, electronic assemblies, castings, plastic mouldings and metal fabrications, through to full manufacturing services, design and build, and rapid prototyping.
Medical Engineering
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Medical Micro Moulder's Diesinker Leads the Way
01 Jan 2007
Sovrin Plastics, the Slough-based medical and technical moulder and specialist in the manufacture of micro moulds and micro precision injection moulded components, has become the first UK user of the new Sodick Premium AP1L die sink EDM – only the second machine of its type to be installed in Europe.
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Thermal Deburring Specified for Critical Medical Device Parts
01 Jan 2007
According to Deburring Centre Ltd, specialist thermal deburrers based in Poole, thermal deburring (or TEM, thermal energy method) is increasingly being specified at the design stage of medical components. This simple deburring procedure can guarantee the 100% removal of all potentially loose burrs and contaminants.
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Steady Increase in Complex Medical Parts Fuels Investments
01 Jan 2007
With increasing complexity in medical device design and associated challenges in manufacturability, Caragh Meditech, a division of Caragh Tool & Die Ltd, Galway, Ireland has pursued a strategic course of continual investment in engineering excellence. Recent investments include a fifth advanced technology 5-axis Hurco machining centre, and also a Traub quasi sliding head lathe.
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Machinist's Leading Machine Tool Technology Offers Supply Solutions
01 Jan 2007
The world’s first evolutionary new Tornos Deco 20S lathe has been installed at WML Engineering Ltd with capabilities to manufacture short batch runs of 1” diameter, or smaller of complexity, in all materials. This advanced machine tool technology facilitates WML to offer cost down pricing through faster machinability at higher complexity levels within shorter lead-times.
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£0.75m Spend Increases Capacity for Growing Medical Device Market
01 Jan 2007
Bonspiel Engineering Limited, based in Dundee, has completed its largest single investment in November 2006, committing over £300,000 on three Star SR20R Mark II machines. This takes Bonspiel’s total spend on Star CNC lathes in the last 13 months to circa £750,000, confirming Bonspiel as one of the largest Star users in the UK with 26 machines.
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Metalworking Capabilities Extend to Thermoplastic and Composite Materials
01 Jan 2007
Kidderminster based Beakbane has won two consecutive Supplier of the Year awards for excellence of service in 2005 and 2006. The company specialises in sheet metal and flexible materials, including metal fabrication, making machine tool guards, flexible connectors, bellows and other machinery protection equipment. The company tailors each product to the individual customer, currently supplying the top two medical equipment manufacturers in the world and exporting to China.
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Recent Moves Win Orders
01 Jan 2007
Wimborne based Arterial UK recently moved into a new purpose built premises and has also taken delivery of three new machines. These changes have helped Arterial to win recent contracts in the medical industry manufacturing and sub-assembling parts for non-invasive surgery.
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New Fibre Laser is UK's First for Subcontractor
01 Jan 2007
Micrometric, the leading UK laser cutting, welding and marking specialist has invested in the first subcontract fibre laser in the UK, a move which the company believes will give it an increased competitive edge, particularly in the welding and cutting of small precision components.
Sheet Metal Working
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Awards Reflect Status as World Class Manufacturer
01 Jan 2007
Fife Fabrications Ltd, the Glenrothes based manufacturer of precision sheet-metalwork, electro-mechanical assemblies and precision machined components, won two top prizes at the Metalworking Production Awards 06: the Forming and Fabrication, and Environmental Practice categories in the Subcontracting Section.
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WaterJet Services add to Enhanced Fabrication and Laser Cutting Facilities
01 Jan 2007
Guttridge Service Limited recently became the proud owner of Leicester Water Jet, with the facility now fully operational at the company’s Spalding based factory in Lincolnshire.
Southern Manufacturing
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Southern Manufacturing and Electronics Exhibition
01 Jan 2007
Southern Manufacturing and Electronics Exhibition is taking place in Thorpe Park on the 7th and 8th February 2007. It is the UK's largest regional manufacturing technology, electronics and subcontracting exhibition with a full programme of free technical seminars and a buyer supplier forum. The show will feature the latest technology, components, materials, products and services available in the South of England.
