Auction Spotlight

Auction Spotlight

New England is staging a collective sale of engineering machinery and associated equipment located at Stourport, UK... [Read More]
Troostwijk is facilitating an online auction of a Caterpillar 3616 TA power and heat generator.... [Read More]
Cottrill & Co is conducting an online auction of equipment no longer required by a packaging equipment manufacturer located in Sweden... [Read More]
GoIndustry DoveBid is hosting its MMX #136 online auction of machine tools and sheet metal machinery... [Read More]
Peaker Pattinson is holding an online tender of equipment used previously by Whirlpool, Schorndorf, Germany... [Read More]

Signing up to SC21

Signing up to SC21

Hemel Hempsteadbased Micro Precision Gear Technology has signed up to the 21st Century Supply Chains (SC21) programme developed by ADS, the UK aerospace, defence and security industries association.
"SC21 has become the performance improvement standard that our aerospace customers expect," says... [Read More]

MTA awards deadline

MTA awards deadline

Winners of the MTA's annual Manufacturing Industry Awards will be announced at the organisation's annual dinner, to be held on 27 March at the ICC Birmingham.
The deadline for entries to the awards is 11 February... [Read More]

Prioritise skills, say Semta

Prioritise skills, say Semta

Skills council expert Semta is calling on engineering and manufacturing employers to prioritise skills and help prevent a "lost generation" in 2013.
Semta says that businesses should be working towards bids from the Employer Ownership of Skills Pilot funding pot... [Read More]

Delcam achieve record orders

Delcam achieve record orders

Birmingham-based CADCAM developer, Delcam, says it achieved a new one-month record in December 2012 for orders of software licences and maintenance contracts... [Read More]

ITC engineer treks to Everest

ITC engineer treks to Everest

Cutting tool specialist, ITC, says that its technical area manager, Paul Ensor (pictured right), has completed a trek to Mount Everest base camp to raise... [Read More]

2012 ends on a high

2012 ends on a high

The UK manufacturing sector ended 2012 on a high, with levels of production and new orders increasing at faster rates in December, according to the latest Markit/CIPS... [Read More]

A cut above at Stanley

A cut above at Stanley

Running unmanned and continuously for three days at a time, the laser deposition of carbide powder to blade edges at Stanley Black & Decker's UK plant near Rotherham is now the longest, uninterrupted, single-run process of its type in the... [Read More]

LVD put K-Two in control

LVD put K-Two in control

An LVD 400t, 8.1m PPEB press brake with Easy-Form adaptive bending system and Cadman-B 3D offline programming software has allowed agricultural equipment manufacturer K-Two Sales to bring large panel forming... [Read More]

Mills CNC look the part

Mills CNC look the part

Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has strengthened its in-house parts operation by increasing its stock of commonly-held Doosan spare and replacement parts, increasing the floor space dedicated... [Read More]

100 years of automobile manufacturing

100 years of automobile manufacturing

In 2013 Mini UK and its parent company BMW Group will celebrate 100 years of carmaking at the site of the Mini plant in Oxford.
The focus point for the celebrations will be 28 March, which is 100 years to the day when the first Bullnose Morris Oxford rolled off the... [Read More]