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Automotive

  • Move to Larger Premises Keeps Pace with Growth in Outsourcing Projects

    01 Aug 2006

    CCP International is relocating to new purpose built facility based in Bentham, North Yorkshire. The company is a specialist engineering outsourcing company; primarily serving the automotive transport and manufacturing engineering sectors. The move at the end of this month reflects the steady increase in business and marks the beginning of the company's expansion. 

  • Investments in Advanced Manufacturing Operations Aim for High Performance

    01 Aug 2006

    Tamworth-based Alcon is on-track to achieve record sales of over £7 million in the next year thanks to assistance from the Government's manufacturing trouble-shooter the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS). The British manufacturer called on MAS to help reduce the cost of its manufacturing processes. 

  • Component Suppliers Urged to Take Advantage of Grant Support

    01 Aug 2006

    Accelerate, the automotive supply chain initiative for the West Midlands, announced a £13m cash injection for the region's car suppliers. Secured directly from the European Regional Development Fund, the new money has been instantly invested into the pursuit of securing new business. Now in its tenth year of operation, Accelerate has grown into one of the most successful supply chain initiatives in the UK. 

  • £10.2m Backing Shows Faith in Future of Enabling Technology

    01 Aug 2006

    Keronite PLC, the Cambridge based high technology surface engineering company, announced the completion of a £10.2 million private placing that will secure a solid basis for Keronite's future. Chairman Nick Kuenssberg is confident that the new investors' faith in the company will be repaid as its unique enabling technology becomes increasingly understood and appreciated. 

  • New Order and Cold Heading Investment Follow Takeover

    01 Aug 2006

    Following a recent management buy-out, the directors of automotive components manufacturer Complex Cold Forming Ltd (CCF) has already announced plans to invest a third of the company's turnover in the first year in new equipment that will include a £1 million Formax cold heading machine, and £100,000 in an optical sorting machine. The company has already won a major new order from GM in the USA which will increase annual turnover by 25% from £3.2 million to over £4 million. 

  • Contract Win Confirms Value of British Engineers

    01 Aug 2006

    Norfolk pressed metal experts, Ladbrook Engineering has won a contract to manufacture pressed metal parts for SCL, an important supplier to the global automotive sector. These parts will be significant components within a sport carrier design for a very well known prestige car. 

  • Two Tier Approach Brings Total Solution to Global Outsourcing Needs

    01 Aug 2006

    Cambridge-based Shearline Precision Engineering has spent several months conducting extensive market-research and potential partner screening in association with Cambridge consultancy, China Business Solutions. This has led to a partnership agreement with a China based manufacturing company, which has already generated interest from several of Shearline's automotive clients. 

East Midlands Manufacturing Show

  • East Midlands Manufacturing Show

    01 Aug 2006

    East Midlands Manufacturing 2006 is being held in Donnington Park, 20-21 September. The event offers an unrivalled opportunity to see the very latest manufacturing technology and production techniques for a range of industries in the East Midlands. 

Heavy Engineering

Industry News

  • Highest Level of SME Exports in Decade Gives Scope for Optimism

    01 Aug 2006

    Export orders for small and medium-sized manufacturers are up for the first time in more than a decade. With improvements in output over recent months, it seems that UK manufacturing, which appeared to have missed out on the global industrial recovery, is on the right track. 

  • Laser Micromachining Capacity Boosted

    01 Aug 2006

    Oxford Lasers is a world leader in the provision of laser micromachining systems and services. Due to rapidly growing subcontract demand from the electronics, bio-medical, automotive, semiconductor, sensor and other high technology sectors Oxford Lasers has commissioned a new laser micromachining facility for high volume production. At the same time, existing micromachining facilities are being upgraded to give even higher positional accuracy for certain extremely demanding applications. 

  • Plastics Manufacturing Event Attracts New Exhibitors from Throughout the Supply Chain

    01 Aug 2006

    The second Plastics Design & Moulding exhibition, PDM 06, 26-28 September, Telford International Centre, will feature even more than 180 exhibitors with major names from throughout the complete supply chain. This is already over 10% more exhibitors than last year's total and more exhibitors are signing up each week. 

  • MACH Wins Exhibition of the Year Award

    01 Aug 2006

    Last month at the Trade Association Forum (TAF) Best Practice Awards ceremony the The Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) won three awards, including Exhibition of the Year for MACH 2006, and was a finalist in a fourth category. 

  • Manufacturing Demand Strongest In 20 Months

    01 Aug 2006

    UK manufacturing is enjoying improving demand, with the level of total order books at its best in 20 months, August's Monthly Industrial Trends Survey by the CBI reveals. 

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