​WorldSkills is an event held every two years to showcase the talents of tomorrow’s engineers and seeks to improve the quality of apprenticeships and technical education for the benefit of all young people, employers ...

When Emma Sisman joined Niftylift two years ago she had ‘little to no experience or knowledge’ of engineering and manufacturing. She’s now the second highest skilled person in her department heading up a waste reduction ...

​Mills CNC, the exclusive distributor of Doosan machine tools in the UK and Ireland, has recently entered into a collaborative research partnership with Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR), a leading independent and ...

The Far East has long been regarded as a bastion of low-cost manufacturing, with lingering question marks over quality and IP-security. While more and more countries – including the UK – are continuing to re-shore ...

​The GTMA formed a cluster of member companies interested in working in the medical sector in March 2020, anticipating the need for an immediate response to the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing medium-/long-term growth in ...

’Reshoring’ is a much-mentioned word in the manufacturing industry, especially amongst engineering component suppliers that took part in Ventilator Challenge UK. Andrew Allcock takes a look at the history of such talk ...

​The Nuclear AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) is part of the government’s High Value Manufacturing Catapult alliance of seven leading manufacturing research centres backed by Innovate UK. It is using ...

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 ...

Machinery has written about a number of online-focused subcontractors, individual firms with varying levels of ambition, as well as platforms that offer buyers access to a range of services and companies in one place, ...

Protective masks have been in short supply in these times of coronavirus. An innovative containerised production facility that enables businesses and healthcare organisations to produce their own masks to order could ...

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 ...

​CNC Routing is stepping up to support the NHS and critical infrastructure projects with the help of Tamworth-based cutting tool specialists ITC.

Speaking to Machinery in March, 6K CEO Dr Aaron Bent explained 6K’s background, its offer and the target audience for the company's unique, zero-waste microwave-powered plasma-based additive manufacturing powder ...

After its first release in Japan back in 2017 FANUC’s Industry 4.0/Internet of Things (IoT) platform now seems ready to enter a new stage (or: new territories). After some delays to the original timeline, at EMO this ...