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Founded in 1987 as a mouldmaker and subcontract machinist specialising in wire and spark erosion and manual milling, RST Engineering, Leighton Buzzard, installed a Hurco Hawk 30 CNC mill in 1998 to speed electrode production and other prismatic machining jobs. It was not until 2007 that the company traded in the Hawk for a 3-axis Hurco VM2 vertical machining centre, taking advantage of automatic tool change to fulfill contracts more economically ...

Bowtech Products was established 22 years ago as an importer of products used for underwater applications, but now designs and manufactures its own equipment. Exports currently account for two-thirds of turnover, which has helped to double the size of the business over the last five years and was one of the reasons for the company winning the Subsea UK Global Export Award 2012, sponsored by Scottish Enterprise.

Acculogic’s Manufacturing Test Systems Division, a global leader in electronic test and production solutions, today announced plans to open a new engineering office in the greater Huntsville area.

Weldability-Sif, the UK based supplier of MIG, TIG, MMA, Spot and Oxy/Fuel welding and Plasma cutting machines, torches, accessories, consumables and personal protective equipment is working alongside The Welding Institute (TWI), Cambridge, the UK’s leading research institute in materials joining technologies and EAL certification, to initiate foundation level welder skills training at Stevenage Skills Centre as a first step towards a full appr...

Weldability-SIF, the UK based supplier of MIG, TIG, MMA, Spot and Oxy/Fuel welding and Plasma cutting machines, torches, accessories, consumables and personal protective equipment has lent its support and sponsorship to the NHC (North Hertfordshire College) “Support Young People” Campaign.

Weldability-Sif, UK based “one stop source” has agreed to help fund the e-learning Welding & Fabrication Consortium and has created an advanced e-learning package aligned to the National Occupational Standards and which covers all the welding, cutting and brazing processes. This package, which was developed by Weldability-Sif in co-operation with Carnegie College, who played a definitive role in developing the software and staging the product...

Offering grounded knowledge and skills training to new talents in the engineering and manufacturing industry - Sandvik Coromant in partnership with the EEF Apprentice and Skills Technology Centre, Birmingham, launches a technician apprentice training program at the same time as introducing a graduate trainee program. Both initiatives are aimed at attracting people keen to pursue a career in UK manufacturing.

Laidler Associates will be running their University Certificate in Professional Development (UCPD) courses on European Machinery Safety, Electrical Safety and the newer Functional Safety Standards this Autumn. The first one is due to take place on the 17th October 2011 at the Ramada Hotel, Solihull.

Laidler Associate will be sponsoring the Demonstration Zone at the inaugural Health and Safety Ireland event which takes place at The National Show Centre, Dublin on the 16-17 November 2011. Laidler, who specialises in machinery safety legislation and risk assessments, will also deliver a presentation at Health and Safety Ireland on Practical Machinery Safety, including Guarding Issues. Using its virtual reality system to re-create a typical wor...

The latest statistics from the HSE, for the year ending April 2010, expose yet again the need to avoid manual handling and give more credence to calls for wider use of vehicle mounted cranes and other load handling devices. The figures show that across all industries thirty one percent of all fatal, serious and over-three-day injuries during the last reporting year were related to manual handling. This represents 37000 people whose lives have bee...