Renishaw was the official sponsor of the 2019 Castle Combe heat of the national Greenpower electric car racing competition. This year, the event fell on International Women in Engineering Day, on 23 June.

Following the success of last year’s event, Faro, Optimax, Bruker Alicona, Aberlink, Heidenhain, Manchester Metrology and the NPL have joined together to stage an even larger Northern Metrology Networking Day. The event ...

Industrial automation specialist Comau has been commissioned by Leclanché, a provider of energy storage solutions, to build one of the world’s first automated manufacturing lines for lithium-ion battery modules used in ...

Mechanical engineering apprentices at Olympus Engineering have gained unprecedented levels of tooling competence to boost their learning and careers at the Stoke- based company after Walter GB offered free training and ...

Engineering services provider Barrnon Ltd has invested in a bespoke laser-cutting machine from MBA Engineering to work with its 6 kW fibre laser source from IPG Photonics, which features a beam splitter. The split beam ...

Nine manufacturers from across the West Midlands are joining forces to help inspire the engineers of the future at a special event. The Manufacturing Assembly Network (MAN), which comprises eight subcontract ...

Yamazaki Mazak is celebrating after helping the Worcestershire 5G Consortium win ‘Most Commercially Viable Use Case’ at the inaugural 5G Realised Use Case Awards.

Seco Tools’ annual ‘Inspiration through Innovation’ best-practice manufacturing event will take place on 9-10 October at the company’s technology centre in Alcester. This year, the event will be focused exclusively on ...

The Mapal Group posted growth of almost 5% in 2018, a result described as “quite satisfactory” by president Dr Jochen Kress. Consolidated group turnover climbed from €610 million in 2017 to €640 million in 2018, while ...

SIC Marking has acquired Zaniboni Srl of Italy, which as a result, has been renamed SIC Zaniboni. (SIC Marking has a UK operation based in Warwick.)

Schunk is preparing for the next step of its global growth by investing around €85 million in its production facilities at Brackenheim-Hausen, Mengen and St Georgen in Germany, as well as Morrisville in the US. The ...

Housed in a modern two-storey building near Stuttgart, Germany, cutting tool specialist Mitsubishi Materials has opened its MTEC (Mitsubishi Technology and Education Centre). (The company is represented in the UK by MMC ...

Laser Lines, a provider of 3D printers and laser equipment, has become a UK reseller of Xact Metal’s 3D-printing systems. The company will be distributing the Xact Metal XM200C and XM200S machines immediately, and the ...

Cutting-tool specialist Cutwel has enjoyed significant growth since the firm’s management buyout (MBO) in May 2018, when existing owners Paul and Mary Hawksworth decided to retire. Managers Adam Gillard, Graham Short ...

Lantek, a specialist in the digital transformation of the sheet-metal and fabrication sectors, has entered into a collaborative agreement with the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM). The agreement reached by ...

Racing cars and robots are set to take over at the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) for the Primary Engineer celebration, recognising the region’s budding young engineers.