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Northern Manufacturing & Electronics returns to EventCity, Manchester from 2 to 3 October with a similar format to the ever-popular Southern Manufacturing Show.

The wide-ranging portfolio of components, production hardware and engineering services being showcased makes it an extremely useful event for designers, procurement professionals and engineers from across the North. The previous show attracted over 3,000 visitors from a wide range of industries.

AE Aerospace has officially opened a new cutting-edge facility with the long-term aim of giving customers access to a fully-servitized model of machining by the hour.

The new 6,500 sq ft factory at Network Park, Birmingham was opened by the Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street at an event to celebrate a major milestone in the company’s 23-year history. AE Aerospace supplies precision machined components to the aerospace, marine, defence and advanced engineering markets and has had to increase capacity to meet growing global demand.

London-based CloudNC is using AI (artificial intelligence) software to offer aerospace-grade CNC machined parts at what it claims to be a fraction of the price of existing alternatives.

The company has just opened the first of several planned UK factories for the manufacture of parts for everything from the aircraft and automotive industries, to consumer, medical, defence, and oil & gas applications.

From 16 to 21 September 2019, international manufacturers of production technology will be spotlighting smart engineering at EMO Hannover 2019. Under the motto of “Smart technologies driving tomorrow’s production”, the world’s premier trade fair for the metalworking industry will be showcasing the entire bandwidth of modern-day metalworking technology, which is the heart of every industrial production process.

Young engineers from across the country came together at the European headquarters of Yamazaki Mazak in Worcester for the final of the Manufacturing Technologies Association’s Technology, Design and Innovation (TDI) Challenge.

According to the latest Contract Manufacturing Index (CMI), the UK subcontract manufacturing market has broken its steady upwards trend and crashed back by 37% in the second quarter of 2019 compared to the first three months of the year.

The index dropped to 101, just one point higher than the baseline figure of 100, which represents the average value of the subcontract market between 2014 and 2018. This is the lowest it has been since the first quarter of 2015 when the index was first published.

KimberMills International, which helped pave the way for the Channel Tunnel and produces forged parts for use in hip replacements is celebrating its 100th birthday with a £1m order intake.

The company, which employs 50 people across two sites in the Black Country and Coventry, has secured new contracts in oil and gas, mining, motorsport and rail.

Samuel Taylor Limited (STL), the Redditch based metal contacts and precision metal pressings specialist, has announced investments totaling over £500,000 in new machinery and factory space.

The high technology company TRUMPF presented the products and applications offered by its new business field, TRUMPF Photonic Components, for the first time at the LASER trade show in Munich. They include sensors to support autonomous driving and components for facial recognition functions such as those already integrated in more than half a billion smartphones worldwide.

Lee Spring address the issues of extreme conditions through use of specialist materials and while low or high temperatures may take our minds toward expensive exotic alloys, extreme conditions vary to a wide extent such as being highly sensitive to magnetic, electrical or chemical conditions.

MGS Technical Plastics has invested six figures in its bid to champion responsible manufacturing and continue to have a positive impact on the environment.

The Blackburn-based manufacturer has introduced a number of initiatives, including upgrades to its factory and improved working practices. 

The company has invested significant time in researching, trialling and implementing new and innovative ways to reuse and recycle leftover plastics to become reusable polymers, diverting it from landfill.

To help let members know of the services we offer, this week, one of our installation teams in Eirth, Kent installed a silo input weigher on behalf of the machine manufacturer. We manufactured all of the ancillary fabrications to go with the installations of chute work, supports and transitions for inlet and outlet. Following this, our installations team are off to the Isle of Islay to install a batch weigher in a distillery and again, CAP Engineering & Design manufactured the supports, holding hopper and chute to suit.