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IET appeals for more female role models in engineering through launch of prestigious award
04 Jun 2007
The IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) has today highlighted the severe shortage of women in engineering and has appealed for more inspirational role models to come forward through the launch of the 2007 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
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New look for Staffordshire engineering company
04 Jun 2007
Staffordshire Precision Engineering is investing in a total rebrand to mark its 25th birthday including a new logo, website, stationary and signage.
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IET Faraday forges forward
04 Jun 2007
The IET Faraday 2008 will be launched this autumn with a number of short dynamic films to drive interest, create enthusiasm and stimulate the desire to know more about this year’s theme, ‘engineering in health’.
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Leading Energy Engineer Becomes 122nd IMechE President
04 Jun 2007
One of the world’s leading energy engineers and former Strathclyde University graduate has been appointed the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) 122nd President.
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Apprenticeship Awards finalists announced
05 Jun 2007
The engineering sector is set to shine at this year’s national Apprenticeship Awards with three apprentices and two employers nominated for awards, announced the Learning and Skills Council today.
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Increase in sales signals manufacturing strength
05 Jun 2007
Cambridgeshire-based manufacturing company, Shearline, announced a 17.5% increase in sales for the year ending March 2007.
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UK Companies Focusing on Lowering Energy Costs
05 Jun 2007
With the growing uncertainty in the electricity and natural gas prices, and increased awareness of energy conservation, many facilities managers of UK companies are exploring every option to reduce their costs and decrease their impact on the environment.
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Every fastener industry sector well represented at fastener fair Stuttgart
05 Jun 2007
The next Fastener Fair Stuttgart takes place at Messe Stuttgart Killesberg on Wednesday 19 September (09:00 to 17:30) and Thursday 20 September 2007 (09:00 to 16:30).
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Free CD-ROM offers design engineers a guide to ceramic components manufacture and application
30 Jul 2008
Morgan Technical Ceramics has produced a new Interactive Presentation CD-ROM, designed to educate and inform design engineers and component specifiers about the many and varied uses of today’s modern technical ceramic materials.
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Geo Kingsbury's 50th anniversary show brings in orders worth £1.6million
30 Jul 2008
Evidence that UK manufacturing continues to invest strongly in top-end machine tools is provided by Geo Kingsbury, which took orders valued at £1.6 million at its open house on 15th and 16th May 2007.
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Polymer Cluster Looks to Second Round of Development Support
07 Jun 2007
The UK’s premier change agent for local plastics and rubber industry development, the Polymer Cluster, has started the process to guarantee its funding beyond 2008.
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Celebrations support 'Made in Birmingham'
07 Jun 2007
Radshape Sheet Metal Ltd, which has spent forty years manufacturing components for a range of luxury and motorsport cars dedicated its anniversary celebrations to supporting Birmingham’s new Lord Mayor’s ‘Made in Birmingham’ campaign.
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Shearline apprentices through to competition final
07 Jun 2007
Two apprentices from Ely-based manufacturing company, Shearline, have made it through to the final of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) East Midlands and Mid-Anglia’s Apprentice of the Year competition.
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Latest innovations by tech students on show
08 Jun 2007
A pocket Braille reading tool and a system that holds up speeding motorists are among the latest designs being unveiled by Cambridge University students hoping to break into the technology market.
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Preactor passes 2000th company mark: now largest global independent APS provider
11 Jun 2007
Preactor International, the UK’s leading specialist production planning and scheduling Software Company, has announced that the number of companies using its software is now over 2,000.
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Antidote to stalling European WEEE adoption revealed
11 Jun 2007
UGS PLM Software, a division of Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has released a guide to ensuring Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive-compliant practices are central to the product lifecycle in manufacturing organisations throughout Europe.
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Hexagon Metrology is preparing to launch a totally revamped pre-owned CMM operation.
30 Jul 2008
On Wednesday, 20 June 2007 Hexagon Metrology, Telford is to launch two new 'peace of mind' services, along with new facilities.This service update will include an up-rated, ISO 9000-approved preparation and aftercare programme which will include a string of new benefits for second user CMM customers.
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Employer-Led Training Project Delivers Boost to Industry
15 Jun 2007
About 5,000 technical workers in South West automotive, aerospace, machine tools, medical engineering, specialist machinery and rail industries, or their supply chains, have benefited, so far, from the ‘Advanced Engineering Skills Project’, developed by SEMTA, the Sector Skills Council for Science, Engineering and Manufacturing Technologies.
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Completion of HangZhou ShanShui acquisition
18 Jun 2007
Following the announcement on 21 May 2007 of the agreement to acquire a 90% interest in the business of HangZhou ShanShui (“HZSS”) in China, Renold is pleased to announce that the purchase has now been completed.
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UK manufacturing sector squanders £14 million a year on poor IT financing deals
19 Jun 2007
Poor IT financing costs UK manufacturing businesses more than £280,000 every working week. 12p in every £1 borrowed to finance IT purchases and leases is needlessly wasted on admin costs, charges and inflated interest rates.
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Midlands manufacturers combine skills to cap a perfect blend
19 Jun 2007
Two traditional West Midlands industries have joined forces to provide the crowning glory for one of the world’s biggest brands.
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The sector responds to the Industry and technology summit
19 Jun 2007
The positive response from the various sectors included in the event, the new services offered to participants and a broad, highly dynamic programme of side events marks the next edition of Cumbre Industrial y Tecnológica, the Industry and Technology Summit, which will take place between 25 and 28 September at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre.
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Entries Invited for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2008
25 Jun 2007
Applications are now being invited for the annual Queen’s Awards for Enterprise from UK-based businesses excelling in International Trade, Innovation or Sustainable Development.
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Earning power falters, adding to record recruitment problems in engineering
25 Jun 2007
Organisations across the engineering sector are struggling to attract staff as movements in earnings drop for the first time in 4 years.
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Online photography exhibition reveals hidden beauty of engineering research
27 Jun 2007
Engineers may not often be celebrated for their artistic prowess, but a photographic competition at the University of Cambridge is revealing some of the hidden beauty that lies behind their work.
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Shearline apprentices scoop the treble at awards ceremony
27 Jun 2007
Two apprentices at leading manufacturing company, Shearline, picked up three highly prestigious awards at this year’s final of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) East Midlands and Mid-Anglia’s Apprentice of the Year competition.
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Young engineers needed to continue our way of life
29 Jun 2007
Britain has an ageing population. Although the population grew by 8% in the last thirty years or so, from 55.9 million in 1971 to 60.2 million in mid-2005 (the last census), this change has not occurred evenly across all age groups.
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Sheffield Forgemasters is back up and running.
28 Jun 2007
The 200-year-old company, which suffered devastating damage in the flash flooding in the city earlier this week, has resumed partial work. Despite being under six foot of water four days ago, first production has started and almost all the 700 employees are now back on site.
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DTI asks for manufacturers to contribute to export licensing consultation
29 Jun 2007
Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) members need to get involved in the current consultation to review the export control legislation implemented in 2004 - was the clear message from the DTI at a recent MTA seminar.
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MTA believes Gordon Brown has made a positive start as the new Prime Minister
29 Jun 2007
The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) has welcomed the changes that the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown has introduced in the structure of Government as “very positive for industry”.






