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UK steel output to increase as companies restock

UK steel output in 2011 ended the year just 0.8% higher than in 2010 as the eurozone crisis and economic uncertainty badly affected demand as customers ran down stocks. However, steel demand is forecast to ...
Olympic Torch held by Alucast

Alucast strikes gold with Olympic torch deal

Alucast, which employs over 100 people at its Wednesbury base in the West Midlands, has been chosen by Coventry-based Premier Group to manufacture the top and bottom caps for the London 2012 Olympic torch. The company ...
GE Wind Turbine 3

Metal Spinners – spinning around

Roberto Priolo talks to Metal Spinners, a North East-based company that manufactures components and sub-assemblies through unique and rather unknown processes. Some believe that metal spinning, shear forming and flow forming are the preserve of ...
Alisdair Mercer, Project Manager of Product Development at Surgical Innovations

Employee of the Month – January

Alasdair Mercer, Project Manager, Product Development, Surgical Innovations. There is a lot of talk about the challenge of attracting talented young people into manufacturing and articles like these can have a tendency to focus on ...
Sheffield Forgemasters AP1000 pump casing

Sheffield Forgemasters to attain US nuclear accreditation

Sheffield Forgemasters is upgrading its American Society of Mechanical Engineers civil nuclear accreditation. The company, which already holds American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) accreditation for the manufacture of components for civil nuclear power, has ...

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  • The MACH 2012 Supplement

    The UK’s engineering-based manufacturing industry is gearing up for MACH 2012 – the biggest manufacturing technology exhibition held in Britain. It is the place to see all the latest in terms of machinery equipment and

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  • Implementing OEE Systems

    Idhammar Implementing OEE Systems The last 10 years have charted a steady rise in the level of interest that senior manufacturing managers pay to organisational asset management. This trend coincides with the increase in asset cost

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