Friday 9 January 09 - 03:08
 

Industry News

  • Beard and Fitch deburrs gears in a flash

    Beard & Fitch manufactures transmission component for a wide range of applications from high performance cars to large industrial diesel engines. It is now using thermal deburring to clean up double gears. 

  • Business heats up for Plexus

    Plexus has secured a contract to become a global volume manufacturing partner for Irisys, the leading thermal technology company. The multi-million pound contract is initially for the manufacture of the company’s thermal imagers and is expected to develop to include people counting systems later this year. 

  • Bring on the Cybermen

    Large corporations with more influence than governments, implanted bio-chips driving employee efficiency in the engineering sector and new open business structures are just some of the predictions from a new study by the Chartered Management Institute. The study, called ‘Management Futures’, analyses current trends and the views of business leaders to predict what the world of work will look like in 2018.  

  • Dynamic axis and auto loading for Laser Cutting Co

    As part of a major investment plan The Laser Cutting Company has taken deliver of the first of two new automatic loading machines to be installed during 2008. The 3530 dynamic axis, automatic on- and off-loading flat bed cutting system supplied by Trumpf brings the total of machines on the shop floor to seven. 

  • Mayflower becomes MTL

    Mayflower Technology, the Sheffield based specialist in contract manufacturing has changed its name to MTL Group Limited and – two years after a management buyout – has adopted a new corporate identity and logo. 

  • Green award for Holden

    A West Midlands aluminium extrusion company, Holden Aluminium Technologies, has been accredited to the environmental standard, ISO 14001. 

  • Mayflower is now MTL

    Mayflower Technology, the Sheffield based specialist in contract manufacturing has changed its name to MTL Group Limited and – two years after a management buyout – has adopted a new corporate identity and logo. 

  • Fuel and metal prices make UK firm more competitive

    Catfield-based Acro Precision Engineering says global increases increases in metal and fuel prices have helped to contribute to a record year. The rises have had a major impact on the cost of making parts in the Far East and China and shipping them to the UK. This has brought prices more in line with UK manufacturers. 

  • Eden wins RNLI contract

    South West metal fabrication company, Eden Engineering, has begun work on a £1million contract to provide vital components for the latest class of lifeboat used by the RNLI. The contract, awarded to Eden by Babcock Marine, includes the fabrication of hand rails, masts and complex stainless steel components for six new lifeboats.  

  • ARRK Tooling puts management team in place

    ARRK Tooling has appointed Phil Mould as Managing Director. The company provides design, development, manufacture and mould tool sourcing services to the plastics processing industry and was created as a result of the merger of Jordan’s Toolmakers and SERMO UK. Phil was previously Sales Director for ARRK Product Development Group’s Rapid Prototyping & Tooling business. 

  • Chocs away for PPH

    PPH Moulders of Harlow has seen off overseas competition to take on the manufacture the award-winning Chocbox electrical connector  - a product that recently won financial backing on the Dragons' Den TV programme. The Chocbox connector, moulded in UR-rated polypropylene, was pitched to the TV dragons by inventor Peter Moule and will soon be on the shelves of B&Q, Travis Perkins, Wickes and Wilkinsons. 

  • GTMA pulls crowds with emerging technologies event

    A GTMA “Emerging Technologies” event hosted by Delcam UK drew more than 80 visitors for a series of  brief presentations on topics including automation, direct metal sintering, rapid prototyping, thermoforming and the latest innovations in injection moulding. The event allowed attendees to gain an insight into a wide range of new technologies in a short space of time. 

  • CBM goes for local heros

    The Sandwell-based Confederation of British Metaloforming picked four Midlands-based companies for the top honours at its 2008 awards event. The awards highlight the progress metalforming has made in terms of productivity, innovation and value added and went to Carlton Laser Services, Smethwick Drop Forgings, Metsec and Kimber Drop Forgings. 

  • Sector focus: The UK Machine Tools Marketplace

    Machine tools have been at the heart of UK innovation since the industrial revolution; they are truly the mother machines – the machines that build machines and are used to create almost everything around us that is made from metal, plastics, polymers, composites and ceramics.   

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