NP Aerospace secures multi-million funding package with NatWest to support export opportunities

Coventry-based defence manufacturing business is looking to grow its export business with multi-million pound funding from NatWest, including a Trade Finance Facility backed by UK Export Finance The funding facilities will enable NP Aerospace to further expand their business to new markets abroad NatWest is fully committed and proud to be supporting customers operating in […]

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Scotland’s bioeconomy boosted by launch of £850,000 scale-up technolog

Scotland’s biotechnology sector is celebrating a major milestone with the launch of the nation’s first open-access 300-litre fermenter – a state-of-the-art piece of equipment that will support early-stage companies to develop bio-based products at scale. Located at FlexBIO, the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre’s (IBioIC) scale-up facility at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, installation of the new […]

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NP Aerospace secures multi-million funding package with NatWest to support export opportunities

Coventry-based defence manufacturing business is looking to grow its export business with multi-million pound funding from NatWest, including a Trade Finance Facility backed by UK Export Finance The funding facilities will enable NP Aerospace to further expand their business to new markets abroad NatWest is fully committed and proud to be supporting customers operating in […]

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Chancellor and Ed Miliband visit Cambridge Vacuum Engineering to see Ebflow™ welding technology in action

Ministers watched demonstration of CVE’s electron beam welding solution, which can help accelerate production of small modular reactors The Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves, and The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband, visited Cambridge Vacuum Engineering (CVE) in Waterbeach, Cambridge on Monday 9 […]

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Service from programming through to component: Schabmüller taps into MAPAL’s expertise in aluminium

MAPAL has handled tool management at automotive supplier Schabmüller for some time. The Aalen-based tool manufacturer has now also taken over CAD/CAM programming for components, including simulations. With growing requirements for aluminium machining, the manufacturer values this full-service solution. Schabmüller Automobiltechnik GmbH (SMI) in Großmehring near Ingolstadt has been an automotive supplier since 1988 and […]

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Government outlines ten-year R&D funding to transform UK economy

The government has set out new ten-year funding for research and development (R&D) to help boost efficiency, attract greater private investment and grow the UK economy. The plan aims to promote long-term funding for infrastructure and innovative technologies such as quantum computing by giving greater certainty to leading research organisations who are tackling critical barriers to UK […]

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Advanced remanufacturing technology could transform wind turbine repairs and cut sector’s carbon footprint

A research collaboration between Renewable Parts Limited (RPL), SSE Renewables, and the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) has demonstrated the potential to remanufacture critical onshore wind turbine components – restoring worn or damaged parts to their original specification or better – to drastically cut waste, reduce carbon emissions and extend part life. Using advanced additive […]

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Big Bang At Schools Offers Big Bang For Your Buck! – Funding Supports ‘Stem’ Events For Over 3,000 Underrepresented Pupils

Thousands of underrepresented schoolchildren across the UK have been given access to engaging, high-quality STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) experiences through Drax Foundation funding, in partnership with EngineeringUK, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to dedicated to enabling more young people from all backgrounds to be informed, inspired and progress into engineering and tech. Funding for […]

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Case study: how a manufacturing site reduced admin time and supported HR processes using Kelio

Sharp installed Kelio’s X4 and X7 terminals at its manufacturing site in Wrexham. All 150 on-site staff use the clocking-in fobs with Kelio’s combined Time and Attendance, and HR systems. Having previously installed separate systems for both, Sharp was delighted with a solution to combine them. Choosing software options with the HR Portal, absence management, […]

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