Picture the scenario. You’re tendering for a lucrative piece of work but after doing all the maths you realise that you’re a bit expensive and need to remove some cost from somewhere. Or, you have a job that you’ve been doing for years and suddenly your customer needs you to manufacture it cheaper because of upstream supply chain pressures.

Well, if you’re a Ceratizit UK & Ireland customer you’re sorted because, as you’ll learn from reading our cover story, the company has recently opened a new Technical Centre on the Advanced Manufacturing Park in Sheffield. And the main drivers behind the facility are the kind of scenarios I reference above.

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Norton Motorcycles has everything under one roof with new factory

Norton Motorcycles has revealed its new 73,000ft2 factory as it aims to manufacture up to 8,000 motorcycles per year.

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Halter appoints 1st Machine Tool Accessories as sales agent

Halter CNC Automation, a manufacturer of robotic machine tending systems headquartered in Hoevelaken, Holland, has appointed 1st Machine Tool Accessories as its sales agent for England, Wales and Scotland.

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Protolabs opens new £13.5m European 3D printing centre

Protolabs, a digital manufacturing service with UK headquarters in Telford, is boosting its additive manufacturing capacity by 60% thanks to a €16m investment.

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MSC Industrial Supply and Next Gen Makers sign deal to tackle skills gap

MSC Industrial Supply Co. UK has acquired a stake in Next Gen Makers, a move it believes will help address the engineering skills shortage.

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Hurco to hold Christmas open house

Hurco’s UK and Ireland subsidiary will stage its traditional Christmas open house at the High Wycombe headquarters on Tuesday 7th and Wednesday 8th December.

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MTC links with global leader to tackle skills shortages

The training arm of the Manufacturing Technology Centre – MTC Training – has joined forces with leading global training provider BPP to boost its range of apprenticeships.

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View the Subcontractor Sourcing Guide 2021

The PES Subcontractor Sourcing Guide 2021 is a brand new digital publication to help you source the right subcontract solution for your business.

Grob’s turnkey automation systems explained

With its customised turn-key assembly lines, Grob offers its customers individually tailored solutions with high requirements for type and quantity flexibility.

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Hoffmann countersink avoids angular hole cutting

Hoffmann Group has released a video showing a countersink that doesn’t make angular countersinks.

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High performance Doosan horizontal lathe offers increased part accuracy

Doosan’s GT series lathes, sold in the UK by Mills CNC, provide manufacturers with increased part accuracies and repeatability’s, superior cutting performance and greater process reliability.

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Unlock the secrets to machining titanium and super alloys

In the first episode of a new Seco Tools series called Getting Technical, the company explains how to machine titanium and super alloys by following a few basic rules.

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Putting fixtures together in minutes using Mitutoyo Fixture Builder

By following these simple steps on how to use Mitutoyo’s Fixture Builder, finding the right parts and putting fixtures together can be done in a matter of minutes.

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Faster, more powerful metal cutting from AXYZ

This cutting solution from AXYZ maximises speed, quality, and precision with all the great features AXYZ Routers are known for.

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