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Securing a new medical quality standard is set to open up a £1m opportunity for one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of round, flat and profile wire. Alloy Wire International (AWI), which offers a 60-strong range of Exotic alloys, has taken just nine months to refine its systems to achieve ISO 13485 – the quality […]

One of the UK’s leading training providers has outlined plans for investment in the launch of a new press and tooling line and a number of exciting collaborations to help industry bounce back in 2021. In-Comm Training, which operates three world class academies across the Black Country and Shropshire, is looking to support companies with […]

For any manufacturers involved in imperial boring operations, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) is expanding the BIG KAISER Precision Tooling offering of digital boring heads. Now, the UK’s leading cutting tool manufacturer is offering head sizes down to the CKB1 modular tooling connection size, which means boring down to Ø0.787” for Series 310 peripheric heads and […]

To help companies to ‘work safe’ during the pandemic, Altus Group, a leading distributor of capital equipment in the UK and Ireland, has added a number of new key suppliers of safety-related equipment to their portfolio in an effort to support customers. New to the group is Tharsus with the innovative Bump system, a powerful […]

Despite the global pandemic, Danutek Bulgaria, daughter company of Altus Group, a leading distributor of capital equipment, has proved resilient and is ending the final quarter on a high with a number of new orders from leading manufacturers in the Balkans region. Like all businesses, Coronavirus has affected Danutek, but during the months of restrictions […]

Bindatex, the UK’s leading provider of specialist process and cutting services is pleased to announce it has been awarded an Innovate UK grant of almost £100,000 from the Sustainable Innovation Fund. The purpose of the grant is to support a critical six-month R&D project to further develop and upscale their highly innovative 1mm wide slitting […]

A leading engineering solutions provider has been announced as a preferred supplier to IESA in a deal that could be worth up to £1m per year. Deritend Group, which recently completed a major relocation project to larger facilities in West Bromwich, has completed the quality assurance exercise required to be listed in the Motor and […]

A family-run engineering company in Coventry is playing a major role in the UK’s response to Covid-19 after supplying more than 120 miles of medical gas copper pipes in just six months. Lawton Tubes, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018, switched the majority of its production to cater for unprecedented demand from the NHS […]

A Sheffield-based scissor manufacturer who supplies Royalty, Formula 1, golf greens and bulletproof jacket specialists has invested in three new machines to help it meet an unprecedented rise in retail sales. William Whiteley & Sons, which has been trading for more than 260 years, has spent in excess of £80,000 in upgrading its production capability […]

An Invar Systems project, involving the rollout of Hikrobot AMRs across Superdry’s international DC network, has won the highly coveted Technology Supply Chain Excellence trophy at the 2020 Supply Chain Excellence Awards. The entry was also Highly Commended by the judges in the Best Use of Robotics category.  The Supply Chain Excellence Awards scheme, now […]