productSupplier quality excellence award
Two of Spirol International Corporation’s manufacturing locations have received the 2016 General Motors Supplier Quality Excellence Award for achieving operational excellence and quality control.
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productTop 2% position three years in a row
TC Security Services, part of TC Facilities Management (TCFM), has been placed in the top 2% of all SIA listed companies within the Approved Contractor Scheme in the UK for the third year in succession.
productInvertek Drives starts work on new 5,500m² factory which will create jobs
Work has started on a new 5500m² factory at the Welshpool headquarters of Invertek Drives. The factory will enable the company to increase production capacity to more than 400,000 drives per year as well as create new jobs.
productBearing manufacturer celebrates 30 years with UK distributor
Japanese bearing manufacturer, Sapporo Precision, recently visited its official UK distributor of EZO bearings, SMB Bearings, to celebrate a 30 year partnership.
productNew partnership for gas leak detectors
Ashtead technology has been appointed preferred distributor and rental partner for the GES Gas-Tec (Mk4 & Mk5) FID Hydrocarbon Gas Detectors.
productCleaning technology wins award
Aspen Pumps has won an RAC Cooling Industry award for its Green XL range from Storm Chemicals. Storm Green XL is a sector-specific probiotic cleaning technology which beat off stiff competition to win the ‘Air Conditioning Product of the Year – Components and peripherals’ category.
productEuropean operations expanded
William Hughes, a UK-based supplier of custom-made springs, wire forms and assemblies, has expanded its European operations with the acquisition of Nosag Polska from the DEFTA Group.
productNew European aeronautical test centre
SKF is increasing its capacity to innovate by opening a new European Test Centre dedicated to high-speed aeronautical bearings.
productWebsite’s twentieth birthday
In 1997, Thorite launched its first commerce-based website. Since then, the site has been redesigned three times with each redesign featuring more help sections, products and news items than the previous version. The latest offering is a full e-commerce site. Thorite believes this contains the largest selection of pneumatic products of any site in the UK and possibly Europe.
productCelebrating 40 years
Mecmesin was established in 1977 by Jim Oakley, an accomplished mechanical design engineer. The company was originally a distributor for a range of engineering based products but early on saw the opportunity to focus on force & torque measurement.
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