productCleaner steels
Cleaner steels by Ovako are opening up new design opportunities and extending service life for high performance parts, a message the company will be promoting on its stand at Subcon 2015.
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productBlast room installed
Wabtec Rail, specialist in overhaul and repair of railway rolling stock, has increased capacity for servicing wheel-sets at its South Yorkshire premises with the installation of a second self-contained Hodge Clemco blast-room with automatic abrasive recovery.
productFibre laser cutting machines
Coventry-based has invested more than £2m in automated TRUMPF laser profiling technology. The equipment comprises two 5kW TRUMPF TruLaser 5040 fibre laser cutting machines (4 x 2m format) featuring BrightLine fibre technology and SortMaster part sorting automation.
articleOil analysis: Helping boost machine uptime?
If 80% of all hydraulic failures on machinery can be traced back to contaminated oil, why do maintenance engineers place their faith in component monitoring? Chris Gray, filtration product manager at Bosch Rexroth explains why oil sampling is the key to greater machine uptime
articleCAT 6A cables: Are you ready for Industry 4.0?
Cables connect everything within the factory so, as trends within manufacturing change, so does the need for cables to adapt to support them. Jürgen Daut, industry sales and marketing director at Nexans, explains
productHeat treatment and hard coatings services
Wallwork Group will be championing the benefits for customers from a major expansion programme that sees the company offering a broader range of heat treatment, hard coating and development services than last year. In many areas the company has also increased processing load size too.
articleGrounds for optimism
Geoff Noon, statistician at the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) shares his thoughts on the current economic situation in the UK
productLatest acquisition
With the acquisition of the American company Lund Engineering, Fives is expanding its automation offer for composite parts manufacturing, enlarging its range of equipment, and increasing its process expertise.
productBoosting capacity
Part of a £400,000 investment programme to upgrade key plant and machinery to improve output capacity, Tufnol Composites has purchased a state-of-the-art hydraulic press for its Birmingham based manufacturing facility.
productComposites: Strong growth and opportunities
FRP composites have made inroads into virtually every end-user industry for a variety of reasons and key advantages. Dr. Sue Halliwell, operations manager at Composites UK, explains more
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