Subcon 2019: Excelling in innovation and partnerships Subcon, the UK’s only dedicated event to enable subcontract manufacturing buyers to source suppliers, benchmark capabilities, and form new manufacturing partnerships, returns on the 4-6 June 2019 at the NEC,…
New fibre laser cutting machine opens up new markets for APSM Alternative Precision Sheet Metal (APSM), founded in 1997 by Brian Dumbarton, has built a reputation for personal service and establishing close partnerships with its customer base.
UK subcontract manufacturing sector increases 7% in Q1 The UK subcontract manufacturing market continued to grow in the first quarter of 2019, despite the continued political uncertainty from Brexit.
Machining investment helps Merc Aerospace boost new orders Moving to ‘one-hit’ machining has delivered Merc Aerospace, a Lancashire precision engineering specialist, a £500,000 boost after securing a string of new orders.
Start-up brings metal additive manufacturing capability to the UK market A Scottish 3D printing start-up is starting to help deliver benefits to the Scottish economy by producing its first pieces using the Markforged Metal-X metal printer.
UK subcontract market up 31% in 2018, despite economic uncertainty Despite uncertainty for the UK manufacturing industry as a whole, the subcontract and contract manufacturing sector remained strong in 2018 and was up 31% on the previous year. This is…
Sound machining decisions make all the difference Axiom Product Development is a new privately-owned company which has recently acquired the trade and assets of FRH Technical Engineering Ltd, a successful machining, rapid prototyping and tooling business based…
Case study: At the forefront of subcontract manufacturing with Mazak Advanced Engineering (UK), is a niche rapid prototype company, based in Birmingham. For over 40 years, the company has provided quality and cost-effective subcontract engineering services, with a specific track…
UK subcontract market up 72% in three months The latest Contract Manufacturing Index (CMI) figures reveal that the market for subcontract manufacturing was extremely healthy in the first three months of 2018, up 72% on a disappointing final…
Pushing new gear wheels of precision Muffett Gears has been at the forefront of gear manufacturing for many decades. Ed Hill visited the company to see how it is adapting for the future to keep ahead…
Subcontract market keeps pushing ahead Despite negative indicators such as the fall in UK productivity and decline in new car registrations, Britain’s contract and subcontract manufacturing market appears to be going from strength to strength.
September cover story: Cutting a path to prosperity Yorkshire-based Malton Laser has seen impressive growth over the last 17 years. Ed Hill speaks to its founder, Charles Corner, about how the latest manufacturing technology is driving the company’s…
Sliding ahead to success When brothers Stewart and Warren May set up precision turned parts business Machine Tech Engineering (MTE) in 2002 they soon discovered investing in machines that combined multi-operations into a single…
Driving productivity When faced with the multiple challenges of satisfying short delivery times, undertaking the machining of a complex design and challenging international competition to secure a production contract for new, critical…
Rising to the challenge As one of the UK’s leading contract manufacturing businesses, Unicut Precision has built its reputation on rapid response to customer demands, on-time delivery and, its engineering expertise that over the…
When too good is not good enough West Midlands-based GB Precision is used to tackling difficult grinding jobs; it’s what the company does every day, but sometimes a job comes along which is a bit more demanding.
Good health A specialist subcontract supplier to the healthcare, medical and scientific sectors has seen cycle times cut by 80% in some instances as a result of investing in its first sliding-head…
Hot running boost to production Birmingham-based precision engineering firm, GB Precision provides complex bespoke solutions including multi-impression mould tools, as well as components and sub-assemblies to customers in demanding industry sectors such as medical and…
On track for expansion JC Precision Engineering earns 70% of its turnover from producing a wide range of components for racing go-carts.
Eleven strong machining squad ADM Fine Machining based in Littlehampton has recently invested in a new, large-capacity Doosan DNM 650 II vertical machining centre from Mills CNC.
Cube Precision re-certified to AS 9100 West Midlands-based engineering company Cube Precision has achieved full AS 9100 re-certification, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to supply high quality work to the aerospace industry.
Hone-All Approved to BS EN 9100: 2009 & ISO 9001:2008 standards, Hone-All Precision specialise in Deep Hole Boring, CNC Gundrilling, Deep Hole Drilling, CNC Turning, and CNC Honing and also manufacture…
Stepping up a gear To streamline the manufacture of a family of 12 hydraulic pump components for the yellow goods industry, a Traub automated turn-milling centre supplied by Geo Kingsbury has been installed alongside…
