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Cutting & Profiling

  • Water Jet Was the Only Way For Paper Mill Part

    01 Apr 2003

    World Wide Water Jet (WWW), of Herne Bay in Kent, recently provided a cost effective and time saving solution to a problem. Their customer, a heavy engineering company, needed to supply a 118mm thick stainless steel replacement part for a paper mill. Water jet cutting is the only known method of cutting material of that thickness to the degree of precision required. 

  • Pigeon Work is a Coup

    01 Apr 2003

    The order book has reached new heights at the Scarborough-based RR Engineering with a contract to provide decorative weathervanes for a racing pigeon equipment firm. RR was one of the first companies in the country to buy the Mazak STX Mark II 510 laser profiler to enhance its sheetmetal service, which serves a variety of industries including: transport, power suppliers, shopfitting and sign manufacturers. 

  • Business Policy Develops a Cut Above with Laser

    01 Apr 2003

    Depressed markets and thin order books might put off most small companies with big plans to purchase assets in the order of £300k. Not so Rojac Engineering, where the Directors have taken advantage of the prevailing low interest rates to drive ahead their longstanding policy to develop the higher quality side of their sub-contract sheetmetal business. 

Industry News

  • MAS Reaches First Milestone On Track, On Target, On Time

    01 Apr 2003

    The extraordinary success of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS), in the first year since its launch, won plaudits from the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry at a special event at Oxford Engineering in Abingdon this month. 

  • Industrial Placements Offer Excellent Value For Money On Project Work

    01 Apr 2003

    Between June and October, for as little as £80 per week, businesses can benefit from the help of one of Birmingham's Technology Innovation Centre's (the tic) current team of senior, full-time, advanced students who will undertake a technology-based project over a sixteen week period. 

  • Funds Available For East Midlands Manufacturing

    01 Apr 2003

    Up to 50% of the cost of exhibiting at the new East Midlands Manufacturing Exhibition can now be recouped by East Midland Based suppliers, if they have less than 250 employees, under a new grant scheme administered by Business Link Nottinghamshire in association with the show organisers ETES. 

  • Companies Can Shape Government Investment

    01 Apr 2003

    Research on Materials Performance is to be the focus of a proposed new programme being developed by the DTI and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). A key objective is to develop projects that are relevant to current and long term requirements for measurement techniques, test methods and predictive tools. 

  • Reducing Time Increases Margins

    01 Apr 2003

    The reducing lifecycle of products places increased demand on companies to reduce the time taken to develop new products. 

Medical Engineering

  • Joint Partnership Clinic Offers Support to Bio and Medical Industry SMEs

    01 Apr 2003

    Two Faraday partnerships have joined forces to introduce themselves and promote their support offered to medical device manufacturers and bio-industry companies. The Medical Devices and Pro-Bio Faraday Partnerships are jointly hosting an industry support event at TWI Ltd, in Cambridge on May 28 2003. 

Turning & Milling

  • Partnership Sourcing is Win-Win with KanBan

    01 Apr 2003

    Machined Component Systems (MSC) of Redditch, Worcester, is committed to the principal of partnership sourcing leading to increased quality and reduced costs. 

  • New Machine Drills Deep and Keeps Costs Down

    01 Apr 2003

    LMS Precision, Worcestershire, is used to having a full order book of aircraft work. Currently the company is reasonably busy but is driven to invest in new equipment to get costs down. The latest investment adds deep hole drilling capabilities to the wide range of complex turning and milling operations performed. 

  • Training Underlines Supplier Competences

    01 Apr 2003

    As part of its commitment to Modern Apprenticeships, Shearline Precision Engineering in Ely, Cambridgeshire, is sponsoring Witchford College's Design and Technology department which opened recently. 15% of the company's workforce represents home-grown talent and 22.3% of the engineers employed have come through the company's apprenticeship programme. 

  • Fast Metal Removal Workshop Sets The Pace

    01 Apr 2003

    Manufacturers are invited to brainstorm specific manufacturing problems at a workshop that is being jointly run by industry leaders in machining, tooling and digital manufacturing - DMG, Iscar and Open Mind respectively, in Birmingham on 14 May. 

  • Levels of Stock and Satisfaction Monitored

    01 Apr 2003

    Abingdon-based Holifields is one of the first contract machinists to achieve the new ISO9001:2000 quality standard. The company not only produces components but also stocks them free of charge for delivery when needed, just in time. 

  • Larger Small Parts Target Overseas Competition

    01 Apr 2003

    Target Precision in Essex, a company renowned for smaller precision turned parts is now able to produce complex mill/turn parts up to 32mm diameter with the introduction of a 13-axis Citizen M32 CNC sliding head automatic lathe. The company reckons that with this new capability for parts of this size, overseas competitors - especially those in China and Taiwan - will find it hard to compete with them in terms of delivery turn-around, as well as price. 

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