Banbury-based Plastic Parts Direct is a company of 17 years standing, although its personnel boast some 35 years’ experience in the injection moulding business. Earlier this year, this small company announced it had ...

At the beginning of March, life in the UK was still close to normal, albeit with heightened awareness of Covid-19’s threat and approach, plus a focus on hand-washing. But from Monday, 16 through into mid-April as peak ...

​Heller Machine Tools in Redditch is the British subsidiary of Gebr. Heller Maschinenfabrik GmbH. Both deliver their products globally. Andrew Allcock caught up with Matthias Meyer, managing director of the UK ...

​US-headquartered 3D-printing software and hardware developer VELO3D is to launch a new metal printer able to produce one-metre-tall parts later this year. The company says the new model will be the world’s tallest ...

Andrew Allcock reviews current progress on sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Less sexy than the topic of electric aircraft (p9), it is, however, technically the nearer term solution for cleaner air travel

While electric cars are today a reality, albeit we will see many further strides yet in the development of that technology, the aerospace industry has a larger challenge and is still early into its journey. Andrew ...

​Steed Webzell explores the theme of voice-controlled machine tools after a notable breakthrough was showcased at the IMTS exhibition in Chicago last September

It is a widely held tenet that to succeed companies must principally have access to the very latest manufacturing technology, which often these days is complemented by its supplier’s process knowledge. The big welcome ...

Castle Precision Engineering won an £80 million Rolls-Royce order last year, its largest ever contract. But the company had to travel a hard road to before that, learning a critical lesson along the way – that it was ...

MACH2020 (www.machexhibition.com) will take place from 20-24 April, 2020 at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham. It will be the second show since the move to new halls, with the event last year attracting 25,000+ ...

As we kick of the New Year, Andrew Allcock sets the general business and technology scene, taking in comments from organisations and companies within the magazine’s sphere of operation The obvious statement to make is ...

​Steed Webzell recently visited the Elite Centre for Manufacturing Skills for metalforming & foundry skills. He explains what sets this newly-created training provision apart from so many others (first published in ...

Machine tool industry slowdown and remedies; chlorinated paraffin concerns; coolant recycling; high speed spindles; B Elliott companies bought out; largest press brake built in the UK; are transfer lines at end of the ...

​In a world-first, Starrag has designed, developed and fully integrated a flexible manufacturing system (FMS) for the automated complete machining – incorporating combined milling and turning on Starrag machining ...

Heller Machine Tools has spent more than £2 million upgrading its Redditch manufacturing plant and headquarters. The administrative and applications engineering departments have benefitted from a comprehensive makeover, ...

​Doncasters has been using electroforming for more than 13 years, predominantly as erosion shields on rotor blades. Earlier this year, the company unveiled a breakthrough use, as Andrew Woods, business development ...