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Laser cutting has massive advantages over alternative metal cutting methods, providing the precision and power that helps businesses produce results on an unprecedented scale! As a constantly developing field, laser cutting only continues to offer more benefits as it grows. Latest technology means you can get the best quality cut, at rapid speeds and at an affordable price…

Materials with high alloy content, known as super alloys or exotic alloys, offer enhanced performance properties including excellent strength and durability, and resistance to oxidation, corrosion and deforming at high temperatures or under extreme pressure. Because of these properties, super alloys make the best spring materials for demanding working conditions, which can be encountered across various industry sectors, including the Automotive, Marine and Aerospace sectors as well as oil and gas extraction, thermal processing, petrochemical processing and power generation.

Did you know you can reclaim up to 33.35% of your costs for innovative projects and you can go back 2 years?

What is the R&D incentive and how does the tax benefit work?

Black Country-based Professional Polishing Services has invested a third of its turnover in new equipment that will reduce turnaround time to a matter of days.

The investment includes two new Autopulit automatic reciprocating polishing machines from Ellesco.

Newbury Electronics' expertise and fabrication skills saved the day for one Industrial Design student’s stress sensor project.

When Trevyn Rayner-Canham, a BA Industrial Design and Technology student in her final year at Brunel University, realised that she needed guidance in regard to the electronic elements of her personal stress sensor design, she turned to Newbury Electronics. With her project deadline looming, Trevyn needed to work with a company that could translate her rudimentary design specifications into a fully functioning PCB in just one week.

A new workholding system has allowed Stratos Precision Engineering to double productivity on plastic parts.

Subcontract machining of plastic parts constitutes the vast majority of output at the company’s Gloucester factory, where the production of a particular component was causing problems that were exacerbated by the need to produce around 5,000 per year.

Soft-close and lift-off facilities with the new PINET dampening hinges from FDB Panel Fittings enable easy equipment installation and access in workshop, office or domestic environments. Situations where rapid door removal saves time and greatly aids the work of engineer fitters.

No-slam closure with dampened hinges is also an appreciated end-user feature from safety and noise perspectives. L/R clockwise/anti-clockwise operation is available with these plastic polymer hinges which conveniently lift-off in a single operation.

In-Comm Training, which has supported more than 2500 people with apprenticeships and upskilling opportunities in 2018, has promoted Chris Reeves to Operations Director, overseeing the further expansion of academies in Aldridge, Bridgnorth and Shrewsbury.

The former member of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers will join Directors Colin Mills, Geoff Jones and Bekki Phillips on the senior management team, with the latter moving to Managing Director.

As specialists in the world of industrial threaded fasteners, the team at Challenge Europe are pleased to announce stocking of the Action Can range of industrial aerosols.

Explains M.D. Kevin Moorcroft “we deal every day with manufacturers, installers and service engineers who are in constant need of high quality consumables and we find the Action Can range meets the exacting requirements of professional engineers for anti-corrosion products and paints, cleaners, lubricants, metal working sprays, along with general workshop products.”

The Sopwith Camel, the Supermarine Spitfire and the Galileo satellite system were all built by the British aerospace industry. Britain has a trans-generational connection to aviation, having been a prime player in the sector since the foundation of the industry itself.

Here Jeremy Whittingham, Head of Marketing for the UK’s annual manufacturing and engineering exhibition, Advanced Engineering, explains why the UK’s aerospace sector is one of the most impressive in the world, despite the potential challenges on the horizon.

July... 
The sun is shining and the holiday season is upon us, but Rotec never rests. We are ready and available to make your parts to the highest standards.

Over the last few months we have acquired several new machines arrive to assist in our Milling and Sliding Head sections. This has freed up capacity across certain areas, especially up to 20mm dia Sliding Head machined parts and our Fixed Head department.
 

Thomas Brown Engineering Ltd has invested in a new high-performance Mikron 5-axis machining centre that will used to produce high accuracy components with a Ra 0.2µm surface finish.

Supplied by GF Machining Solutions, the Mikron MILL P 500U was installed at the company’s 20,000 square foot facility in Huddersfield in January 2019 and is being used to machine precision components for customers operating in the aerospace, medical, automotive, robotics, food processing, oil and gas and steel manufacturing/ processing sectors.