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Fabrication

  • Welding Specialist Joins In to Repair 6m Bedplate

    01 Nov 2005

    The latest collaboration between welding engineering specialist Arc Energy Resources and Intoco, a supplier of high quality components for aluminium extrusion presses, has helped a Midlands tube drawing company maintain production. Intoco, with its wellequipped machine shop, is pretty much self-contained, but when it needs specialist fabrication services it works closely with Arc. 

  • F1 Specialist Offers Subcontract Fabrication of Composite Parts

    01 Nov 2005

    Renowned for its carbon fibre enclosures, Beru F1 Systems is the only wiring harness manufacturer that can offer a total service from composite enclosure design to full production of a completed part. The company is currently working on several specialist parts outside the electronics field, which use the fabrication techniques of the composites facility. 

  • New Profiler Boosts Sheet Metalworking Fabrication

    01 Nov 2005

    Established in 1915 to assist the war efforts, Midland Tank & Ironplate was one of the first companies in the Midlands to recognise the potential of laser profiling back in the early 1990's. 

  • Military Fighting Vehicle Simulation Systems Completed on Target

    01 Nov 2005

    Last month specialist engineering service provider Arunfabs completed a project to manufacture ten simulator frames for Lockheed Martin to be used in land based military training. The contract was completed on target within six months and demonstrates Arunfabs' project management experience, and technical knowledge built up over many years, developing and improving equipment for the armed forces and support services, also offering total manufacturing solutions to companies around the south east. 

  • Friction Welding Service Grows By Acquisition

    01 Nov 2005

    Thompson is now the UK's largest provider of subcontract friction welding services. In a deal which brings together over 100 years' expertise in the friction welding industry, Thompson has acquired Blacks Equipment and transferred operations from Blacks' former factory in Doncaster to its modern facility in Halesowen. 

  • Investments in People and Plant Pave the Way To Total 24 Hour Working

    01 Nov 2005

    Following recent substantial investments in three new CNC machines, and the implementation of a new production management IT system, Leeds based fabrication and machining engineers A Taylor & Son is continuing to invest in its people and plant facilities. Three production staff, who have already joined the team, are to be followed by a further 10 shop floor employees. 

Industry News

  • Making Work Fun Leads to Greater Productivity

    01 Nov 2005

    At this time of year, many companies are planning away days, workshops and team-building sessions. Such events should be designed to entertain as well as inform, and to amuse as well as inspire. 

  • Historic Apprentice Scheme is Vital to Industry

    01 Nov 2005

    At the 22nd Whitworth Scholarship Awards earlier this month, Skills Minister, Phil Hope, said the historic scheme is a "huge boost" for the engineering industry. 

  • Improved Website Extends Reach of MAS

    01 Nov 2005

    The DTI Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) website has been upgraded to provide improved access to the regional MAS support available across a wide range of manufacturing disciplines. 

  • Toolmakers' Week in China Widens Understanding of Opportunities in World Markets

    01 Nov 2005

    Currently China is a net importer of mould and die products, but the trade gap is closing. It has been suggested that OEMs and Tier 1 companies will soon purchase over 60% of their moulds and dies from East Asia; leaving the USA and Europe to compete for the remainder. Last month, a GTMA Trade Mission, supported by UK Trade & Investment funding, spent a week in China to gain some real knowledge of the opportunities offered by world markets. 

Moulds & Moulding

  • Laser Welding Extends Die Life and Cuts Costs

    01 Nov 2005

    Kostal, one of the UK's leading manufacturers of electric switches for the automotive industry, based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is using Pro-Moulds' laser welding services to extend the life of their dies and cores. 

  • Steel Injection Moulding Promoted at Interplas05

    01 Nov 2005

    At the Interplas event in August, Metal Injection Mouldings Ltd of Altrincham, Cheshire promoted a relatively new manufacturing technique combining the well established technologies of powder metallurgy and injection moulding. 

  • Rapid Toolmaking Service Grows Stronger Moulds

    01 Nov 2005

    Rapid prototyping and manufacturing specialist, CRDM, High Wycombe, has upgraded its Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS) facility to enable faster, and higher quality, mould tool production. CRDM's Graham Bennett said: "The concept of 'growing' tooling and components to net shape instead of removing material to achieve a required geometry opens up endless possibilities for alternative, costeffective manufacturing." 

Precision Engineering

  • Volumetric Compensation Combats Threat to Machine Tool Accuracy

    01 Nov 2005

    Micrometalsmiths Ltd, specialists in high precision components for the microwave electronics industry, embarked upon a collaborative project with the Centre for Precision Technologies (CPT) at the University of Huddersfield. The aim was to improve the accuracy of key machine tools with the help of a revolutionary new software product, thereby increasing output of good components in the most cost-effective way. 

  • New Machine Extends Lead Further into High Precision Machining

    01 Nov 2005

    Jefferson Engineering Services has added to its extensive 5-axis machining capabilities by investing in a Matsuura MAM72-25 5-axis high speed machining centre. The company provides high precision, complex machined components and subassemblies to the aerospace, defence, Formula one, medical and scientific industries. The new machine extends Jefferson's technological lead in the high precision 5-axis component machining sector still further. 

  • Sliding Head Aficionado is Fixed for New Markets

    01 Nov 2005

    BTMA member and sliding head lathe subcontractor, WML Engineering Ltd has purchased a Miyano BND 51SY fixed head lathe to cater for the needs of its continually changing marketplace. 

  • Extra Capability Reduced Costs and Won New Work Away from US Supplier

    01 Nov 2005

    The purchase of a high specification Tornos Deco 20a, installed in April at AEL (Dorset) Limited of Blandford Forum, has not only taken a huge cost out of the business by considerably reducing AEL's subcontract base, but has won significant volumes of work away from a US supplier. The company has grown tenfold in its first two years of business. 

  • Software Streamlines Precision Operations

    01 Nov 2005

    During the past six months Reedway Precision, a contract machining company based in Hampshire, has acquired several new machining centres. These are matched by the company's investment in Licom alphacam software, putting off-line programming at the heart of Reedway's ability to work smarter and more cost-effectively in order to maintain a profitable niche in today's competitive market place. 

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