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During the first quarter of 2019, fifteen new members have joined the GTMA. They cover a wide range of technologies including mould and tool making, machine tools, automation, precision manufacturing and R & D.

GTMA CEO, Julia Moore, said: “We are delighted to welcome Fanuc, Filtermist, Morson Projects, R-Winter Tooling, National Composite Catapult Centre, Plazology, Surface Generation, IBS Precision Engineering, Surtec North East, Guhring, Tebis, Solent University, Ewikon, Consort Medical, and Park Sheet Metal into membership.

Goodman Precision Engineering is targeting F1 customers with its latest CNC machine investment

The Milton Keynes company says that quality and precision performance are helping it expand its sales of parts and prototypes to the the ultra-competitive world of F1.

The company has grown dramatically in the last few years, almost doubling its workforce to 25, as founder Mark Goodman has seen the workload ‘grow massively’, with turnover now around £2 million a year.

With just over a week to go until the 2019 Engineering Materials Live Event. There is still enough time to register for the specialist UK exhibition meeting the needs of engineers tasked with sourcing and specifying plastic mouldings, composites, prototyped parts and advanced engineering materials - and it is all FREE to attend! This prestigious free event is taking place next week on Thursday 9th May from 08.30-14.30 at The Wing, Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire.

UK engineering and manufacturing businesses are pushing forward incremental increases in process and production , but suffering a stagnation of programmes to implement new products , according to the annual innovation barometer from Subcon , the UK's premier subcontract manufacturing supply chain show .   

When asked ‘Where does most of your new product innovation come from?’ 42 per cent of respondents said internally, with incremental changes to design processes and production.  This is a slight increase on the 2018 figure of 40 per cent.   

EMKA have detailed their latest HVACR related products under the “Innovations” banner and in line with the company philosophy of “everything but the enclosure” we again find product design and technological leadership. This approach benefits design engineers and installers alike with designed for purpose niche standard items which are easy to fit, fully meet industry requirements and save costs.

Cambridge Dynamics announces the introduction of a multi-stage, indexing, machining centre for the high-volume production of complex, simultaneously machined, components driven by the latest FANUC 30i model B controller. Designed for manufacturers who require high volume simultaneous machining of both ends of shafts and components the machining centre replaces multiple CNC lathes and milling machines with one highly flexible machine capable of multiple operations.

Dudley-based 2D and 3D laser-cutting specialist GF Laser has placed an order for a Trumpf 5-axis CNC laser-profiling machine that is the first of its kind in the UK.

Due to be installed in August 2019, the machine will be set to work on the 5-axis profiling and trimming of pressings, extrusions and spinnings – or any component containing a form – for sectors such as automotive, yellow goods, construction, architecture and art.

PP Control & Automation is helping a leading maker of robot milking machines boost production thanks to a strategic manufacturing partnership.

Fullwood Packo, which employs 240 people at its headquarters in Ellesmere, has tapped into the design and build expertise of the Cheslyn Hay firm to increase capacity of its M2erlin robotic milking machines by 100% over the last three years.

A £900,000+ research project, led by KW Special Projects (KWSP) and funded by Innovate UK, is set to rethink the additive manufacture of ceramics.

Called CerAMake, the project aims to exploit existing deposition technologies to provide improved properties via a scalable ceramic binder jetting platform. The outcome should bring significant competitive advantage to the UK’s commercial pottery sector, refractory filter market and wider industry for additive manufactured ceramics.

Two leading metrology supplierss have agreed a formal partnership designed to help customers dramatically improve their production processes.

The deal will see all bespoke jigs and fixtures for OGP UK supplied by Verus Metrology Partners, alongside an agreement for OGP UK to supply V-FIX – Verus’s modular metrology fixture product – for non-bespoke fixturing solutions.

Since Verus’s inception back in 2008, the company’s relationship with OGP UK has been critical to its success in establishing a global customer base.

As part of its planned process of continuous investment in the latest manufacturing technologies, Dudley-based 2D and 3D laser-cutting specialist GF Laser (www.gflaser.co.uk) has placed an order for a TRUMPF TruLaser Cell 5030 5-axis CNC laser-profiling machine, the first such model in the UK.

Simon Tregillus, Director of GF Laser, was among the customers invited to the recent TRUMPF INTECH 2019 event at the company’s headquarters in Ditzingen Germany, after which the order for TRUMPF TruLaser Cell 5030 was duly placed.