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In response to growing demand from the UK automotive industry for advanced battery safety testing, HORIBA MIRA has invested £1.5m in a new Large Climatic Vibration Laboratory and Battery Abuse Facility.

Satair, an Airbus services company, has provided one of its airline customers in the US with what is believed to be the first certified metal printed flying spare part.

If you prepare your drawings for laser cutting correctly, it will help to streamline your order process, enabling us to get your order out to you as quickly as possible.

The file formats we accept for laser cutting are DWG, DXF and NC.

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The Subcontratación international subcontracting trade event will take place at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre from 1 to 3 June 2021.

This important business forum is an event not to be missed by subcontractor SMEs looking to find new contacts, improve and extend their business model, and keep on evolving. The event, which will be in its 20th year, has become the only trade show in Spain for manufacturing processes and equipment that is designed for subcontractor SMEs. It is also a benchmark platform within the advanced manufacturing framework.

Permali has won UK Government funding to develop a lightweight composite solution that will allow existing diesel-powered buses to be retrofitted with zero-emission hydrogen powertrains.

The objective is to rapidly develop an affordable green technology alternative that can accelerate the ability for the UK to meet its net zero emissions target.

Custom sheet metal and machining specialist KMF has kept up its investment in apprentices for the tenth year running

KMF Group invests in young people every year and despite COVID-19  has taken on a further five apprentices this year.

Over the past 10 years over 100 people have come through KMF’s programme including 12 adult apprentices. This year  Shay Johnston, Aiden Sneyd, Oscar Evans, Kelly Palin, and Kyle Marshall have joined the award-winning precision engineering business.

TRB Lightweight Structures has created a new production process that is being used to produce high volumes of continuous fibre thermoset composite components.

The process is already being used  to supply a global Tier 1 powertrain manufacturer with critical battery components destined for electric buses.

"We signed up to Qimtek in the middle of COVID and the national lockdown.  Their onboarding was smooth and quick, and we have won a couple new customers already.  Qimtek has been a huge help for us winning more work during such a challenging time!  In less than 4 months’ service we have already won enough orders to cover the annual investment.  We would highly recommend them." Troy Barrett, Managing Director

We aim to return quotes in response to a laser cutting enquiries within an hour. To improve our response times for orders sent in the middle of the day, we are going to trial slightly different working patterns for our sales team.

From the week commencing Monday 19th October, for a period of two weeks, our team will be taking shorter lunch breaks and going home half an hour earlier. This will benefit the bulk of enquiries sent throughout the day, but will change our office hours slightly to 8am – 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and 8am – 4.30pm on Fridays.

Brandauer is pressing the button on a £1m project that will see it develop a new process to support the UK’s acceleration into electrification.

The Birmingham-based stamping specialist, which already produces components for use in more than half of the world’s cars, has secured over £300,000 of funding from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund run by UK Research and Innovation to help it set-up a high volume e-machine stack line to produce thin laminates required by the automotive and aerospace sector.

Gordon Henderson, Local MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, visited us here at the CEL factory to see a demonstration of our impressive new robotic welding plant in action here in Sittingbourne, Kent. The recent new investment enables all of our welder fabricators to upskill. Some will learn to program and operate our MIG welding robot, and others are receiving training in more advanced welding techniques.

Electronics design and manufacture specialist Jaltek systems has picked up a Make UK Business Growth and Strategy regional award.

Luton-based Jaltek won the award in the regional heats of Make Uk’s national manufacturing awards programme.

The awards, which recognise excellence among manufacturing companies in seven categories, as well as five Apprentice categories, were held virtually at an online ceremony for the Midlands and East of England.