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A £1.1m investment in presses, technical cleaning capability and a new corporate identity is focused on growth at pressings specialist Clamason Industries.

Clamason Industries, which provides a single-source design, development and value-added engineering solution, saw orders hit £30m in 2018 for the first time in its 70-year history and is now setting its sights on a three-year expansion plan.

Coventry-based autonomous vehicle specialist Aurrigo has teamed up with Blind Veterans UK to launch the world’s first driverless pods trial for disabled people.

It will run a ‘world first’ trial showcasing how autonomous technology can deliver improved mobility and independence for people with health conditions and disabilities.

Please see below article from the front page of our local newspaper, The Fenland Citizen, in February 2019.

A Wisbech-based engineering company which started in 1988 with just four employees, has grown into one of the leading bodybuilders within the Commercial Industry. With a group turnover of over £50 million a year, employing just over 400 people, it is about to move into a £3million purpose-built workshop.

Reducing weight without compromising on structural integrity is currently top of the wish list of most engineering projects. From automotive to aerospace, weight reductions can reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

In the aerospace industry, high-technology group, Safran Landing Systems has recently partnered with Aluminium Matrix Composites (AMC) manufacturer, Alvant, on a two-year, £28 m project, titled ‘Large Landing Gear of the Future’ with the aim to reduce landing gear components weight by as much as 30 per cent.

As market leaders in ex-stock industrial springs, Lee Spring offer some guidance to engineers who are either designing assemblies, developing for production or concerned with installation/maintenance and find that the choice predominantly covers:

Compression Springs are for push applications which compress when a force is applied, and have either closed ends (where the two end coils of the spring are closed and touching), or open ends (where the end coils are open and spaced consistently with the other coils in the spring).

Wherever personnel must be protected from potentially dangerous equipment – or where vulnerable equipment needs protecting from people or the elements – then generally an enclosure system of some kind is used, coupled with a door access device. The Elesa range of standard latches is ideal for this purpose.

For the aerospace industry, hard chrome plating has been the go-to solution for manufacturers for more than six decades. But with the health and environmental concerns of this commonly-used deposit well known – and with legislation in Europe bringing the reign of hard chrome plating to an end – now is the time to seek a viable alternative. Danijela Milosevic-Popovich, Research and Development Manager at SIFCO Applied Surface Concepts (ASC) looks at the possibilities.

Grainger & Worrall (G&W) used advanced casting technology to help NZ firm HamiltonJet Global develop the next generation of marine waterjet propulsion systems.

The new HTX30 waterjet is the result of intense hydrodynamic research, design, and product testing to deliver class-leading waterjet thrust and efficiency for use in patrol and commercial workboats with engines of up to 570kW power.

Thomas Brown Engineering is targeting the aerospace sector with its latest CNC machining investment.

Meeting the precision needs of its customers has seen a Huddersfield manufacturer make a number of large investments, including the acquisition of the latest CNC machine technology.

The Huddersfield-based subcontractor, which celebrated its 35th birthday in 2018, has worked with the Engineering Technology Group (ETG) to install a new Hardinge Bridgeport XR1000 to help it capitalise on three recent contract wins for the aerospace sector.

2018 saw SRD add three new Citizen sliding head (Swiss type) CNC turning centres – the company has trebled in size since 2015 when it moved to new premises.

A 20 mm bar capacity Citizen Cincom L20 Type VII lathe was installed in 2009 and helped contract machinists to weather the recession. Last year it added two further models for processing similar size stock in March and August, followed by a 32 mm capacity machine in November. The ten-year-old machine is currently running 24/7 and still holding tolerance well.