A contractor to the medical industry suddenly saw its order for Intensive Care ventilator components leap from 4,000 a week to over 18,000. And that increase in production looks like continuing into early 2021. Custom enclosure and hardware specialists, Bolger… Continue Reading →

If anything good has come out of this difficult time, it is the stimulation of creativity,” stated Dr Wilfried Schäfer, Executive Director of the VDW, (German Machine Tool Builders’ Association) at the METAV 2020 reloaded Preview on 10 December 2020…. Continue Reading →

A Rugged, Flexible Solution for Monitoring and Control in Extreme Environments   Red Lion Controls announces the expansion of its SixTRAK line of industrial RTUs with the launch of STIPm-8460 powered by the Red Lion Workbench, which uses an IEC61131-3… Continue Reading →

In August 2020, a pair of BT40 vertical machining centres (VMCs) built-in Taiwan by Leadwell was supplied by UK and Ireland agent WH-Lead (www.wh-lead.co.uk) to the Holmfirth factory of HB Bearings (www.hb-bearings.com), which less than a year previously had increased… Continue Reading →

Leading precision subcontractor, searching for a large-capacity, powerful vertical machining centre canvasses the market and ultimately invests in a new Doosan machine from Mills CNC.   Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland,… Continue Reading →

Tuesday 8th December 2020 saw members of the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) meet online for our first ever virtual AGM. As part of this meeting, we also welcomed our new President Andy Hodgson, Strategic Lead: Digitalisation at Siemens. Mr Hodgson… Continue Reading →

SLM Solutions Group AG (www.slm-solutions.com), a German manufacturer of powder bed metal additive manufacturing (AM) machines, has appointed Kingsbury (www.kingsburyuk.com), Gosport, to sell its products and services in the British and Irish markets with effect from 1st December 2020. There… Continue Reading →

Jack Chapman, an Embedded Electronic Engineering Apprentice at global engineering technologies company Renishaw, has been awarded Outstanding Apprentice of the Year for Engineering, Manufacturing, Energy & Electrical at the virtual Gloucestershire Apprenticeship awards on November 19th. The degree-level apprentice was… Continue Reading →

At the start of this pandemic the focus was on ventilators, but as things developed testing became the priority of Government. Step forward Atherstone-based Shield Marquee Manufacturing. While its usual customer base, the hospitality industry, continues to face strict restrictions,… Continue Reading →

GF Machining Solutions has supplied Hersham-based Fimark Ltd., – a laser engraving, cutting, marking and texturing subcontract specialist – with a new, state-of-the-art laser texturing machine. The machine – an AgieCharmilles LASER P 400U – was installed at the company’s… Continue Reading →