​The new £20 million advanced manufacturing facility at the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC)– FutureForge – will give a boost to Scottish manufacturing and help create the ‘forge of the future’ and develop new ...

The MTC has made a significant six-figure investment in its laser processing capability with the installation of a high precision Synova LCS305 waterjet guided laser machine – the first of its kind to be operated in UK ...

The first of January 1995 is a distant memory, but the EU Machinery Safety Directive became mandated in the UK on that date and saw the CE mark of conformity become a visible feature on many commercial and industrial ...

The Advanced Machinery and Productivity Institute (the AMP Institute) is a new initiative, currently in its formative stage, that will fill a missing hole in the UK’s innovation landscape. It aims to exploit one of the ...

​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 ...