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The continuing restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic are wreaking havoc with the timetable of planned trade exhibitions, so here is a round up of what is still happening and when.

Having first of all been postponed April this year until January 2021, the MACH manufacturing technologies show will not now run until April 2022.

Subcon, which was postponed from June this year and then to September this year then again to January 2021, when it was planned to run alongside MACH, has now been further postponed until September 2021.

Addition Design has expanded its range of services with the installation of an industrial additive manufacturing (AM) machine for the batch production of components in a variety of high-grade engineering polymers.

The Prodways ProMaker P1000, housed within a dedicated production suite at the Sheffield-based consultancy’s facility, is one of only a handful of such machines installed in the UK and will enable the company to support high value manufacturers in the scaling up and quality production of their industrial 3D printed components quickly and efficiently.

In light of the most recent government announcements, we would like to reassure our customers that we are still open and accepting orders from all industries.

Where possible, team members are working from home, but due to the nature of our business, some of our workforce are required on site to carry out various processes. In order to protect our employees, customers and associates and comply with government guidance we continue to run a no-contact delivery and collection system as detailed below.

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Subcon, the subcontract manufacturing and supply chain trade show, has now been postponed until 14 – 16 September 2021.

The event, which is owned and run by MA Exhibitions Ltd, was due to run from 26 – 28 January alongside The Engineer Expo and the Manufacturing Management Show, which have also been postponed to the same dates. The shows will run in Hall 12 at the NEC, Birmingham.

The MACH show, which had been scheduled to run at the same time as Subcon had already been pushed back to 2022 by its organiser the Manufacturing Technology Association.

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.