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20 Years Later And Our High-Performance Sensors Are Still Being Used In Gemini Telescopes

20 years ago, The Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge approached us to design and build nearly 700 bespoke load cells for two 8.1m diameter telescopes, known as The Gemini Project.

Now 20 years on, these custom-made, high accuracy load cells are still consistently and accurately performing an integral part of the Gemini Telescopes’ control system.

“Having invested in some new machinery we were keen to find new leads for ongoing work. As a small company, the time and staffing element of finding new work was daunting and our success rate was low. Qimtek allows you access to the right people and gets your foot in the door, saving a lot of leg work!

G&P provides quality management to manufacturing companies across the globe, delivering  inspection, rectification, technical and recruitment services. It works alongside OEMs and their tiered suppliers to increase quality levels, efficiency, profitability and to protect their reputations.

Don-Bur, a leading manufacturer of commercial vehicle trailers and rigid bodywork, has completed a major upgrade of its manufacturing capabilities that includes the acquisition of a STOPA autonomous raw material and parts management system complete with high-specification 8kW TruLaser 5030 fiber laser profiling centre from TRUMPF. Replacing two previous CO2 laser cutters from another manufacturer, the company estimates that its new investment is an impressive seven times faster. Two advanced TRUMPF TruBend bending machines have also arrived at the company’s Stoke facility.

In order to provide the best possible trampoline experience, tension springs with ultimate properties are required. North Trampoline has, assisted by Lesjöfors, developed a premium product with the  firmness and a long lifespan that professional jumpers require.

In North Trampoline’s development process of the Performer Revolution for jumpers with higher demands on performance, quality and safety, the existing spring solution needed to be refined and improved so it turned to Lesjöfors.

FDB Panel Fittings with sales partner DIRAK are delighted to launch this new slam latch for sliding doors and panels. Designed especially for the broad range of industry, light commercial and high-quality residential sliding doors that are widely used on specialist vehicles, caravans, motorhomes, railways, office cabinets, domestic light doors, cupboards and storage units.

Always looking for new ways to further its commitment to the environment, in August this year APT Leicester signed up for the Government’s Cycle to Work Scheme.

APT is already committed to environmental sustainability and has a long-term strategy for reusing and recycling as much waste as possible. It has also worked hard to ensure the packaging for its components is fully recyclable and it encourages reuse wherever possible.

Unicut Precision has added another pair of twin-turret, twin-spindle turn-mill centres for the production of complex components for the hydraulics industry.

The new Miyano BNE-51MSY machines from Citizen Machinery UK join two identical twin-spindle, twin-turret lathes with live tooling and a Y-axis on the upper turret that were supplied at the end of 2017.

Externally invisible locking is offered by the new EMKA ePush-Lock, meeting the need for a comfortable non-handle locking system. This flat design style of internal locking handle is the trend for mobile homes and many other applications where it is advantageous to disguise opening panels.

Exhibitors include: 

Clarendon Specialty Fasteners (Stand F4) will be exhibiting SEMS – pre-assembled screws and washers that are predominately used in the aircraft interior industry. They reduce inventory count and installed cost through increased production rates and the elimination of down time trying to find lost components. Clarendon Specialty Fasteners can manufacture and supply SEMS in varying volumes, sizes, finishes and head styles to suit a wide range of applications.

Bitrez is celebrating securing the Queen’s Award for Innovation for its Curaphen phenolic resins for composites at Advanced Engineering.

Within the extensive Curpahen portfolio are low free formaldehyde Phenolic resins offering inherent Fire, Smoke and Toxicity [FST] values whilst also meeting the reduced free formaldehyde threshold limits under REACh.

MSA Manufacturing Ltd. (MSA) (stand L30) is exhibiting at Advanced Engineering  2019, NEC, Birmingham (30-31 Oct), where it will be promoting its enhanced production space and improved processing capabilities; 16,500 sq. ft. of new factory space and improved processes were added in 2019 for reinforcement kitting and preforming, increasing capacity and customer service.

MSA is an independent UK supplier, specialising in the machining, slitting, cutting and kitting of materials for the composites industry.