The Walsall Wheelbarrow Company has installed a second custom-designed automated production cell from Unison to help meet huge demand for its 'barrow in a box' product. Solutions reports.
In-Situ Oilfield Services, a leading provider of specialist CNC machine tools for the oil and gas industry based in Scotland, identified a different approach to the threading of Oil Country Tubular Goods
The introduction of a second Flexible Manufacturing System for HPC Precision Engineering has resulted in 95% utilisation of new machine tool investment.
MTL Advanced, one of the UK’s largest metal fabrication and contract manufacturing companies and part of the WEC Group, has introduced a brand-new LVD Taurus 12kW XXL format fibre laser to its large profiling line-up, following a substantial £1m investment.
The latest Contract Manufacturing Index shows that the UK market for subcontract manufacturing continued to grow in the first quarter. The index was up 4.5% in the first three months of 2024, building on the strong upswing at the end of 2023.
Sentiment within the UK manufacturing industry improved in April and output expectations were the strongest for six months, according to the CBI’s latest quarterly Industrial Trends Survey.