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News round-up Make more ventilators fast, please
Mazak is celebrating the farreaching
impact that machine tools
have on everyday life with the
opening of the Yamazaki Mazak
Museum of Machine Tools in
Minokamo, Japan.
https://is.gd/mojoho
Comau, a specialist in industrial
automation products and solutions,
and Exechon, which offers patented
technologies to develop parallel
kinematic machine solutions, have
joined forces to design and produce
a Comau machining centre able to
handle lightweight framing and
structural components for sectors
such as electri cation
https://is.gd/vegala
Following the recent announcement
of Marcin Drozd as its rst area sales
manager in Poland, XYZ Machine
Tools has followed that up with a
second appointment, bringing in
machine tool specialist Marcin
Binkowski, who will be responsible
for direct sales in the south and east
of Poland. https://is.gd/redeka
Renishaw has collaborated with the
Nova Scotia Community College
(NSCC) in Canada to produce two
ocean turbine parts using additive
manufacturing for industrial design
rm Biome Renewables.
https://is.gd/emarem
The Manufacturing Technologies
Association, which owns and runs
the MACH exhibition, has
rescheduled the show, moving it
from April 2020 to 25-28 Jan 2021.
https://is.gd/awoyeb
Nissan has unveiled a £52 million
extra-large press line at its UK
manufacturing plant in Sunderland
as preparations ramp up for the
next-generation Qashqai. The
Komatsu press, which weighs more
than 2,000 tonnes and has taken
18 months to install, is part of a
£400 million total investment by
Nissan. https://is.gd/upuruc
WorldSkills UK, the education and
skills charity, is looking for talented
apprentice engineers to prove they
are the country’s best. Putting
apprentice and student skills,
knowledge and employability
attributes to the test in a
competitive environment, 90% of
those who entered in 2019 said
they had seen improvements in their
career prospects.
https://is.gd/sibase
ADS Laser Cutting
has invested in a
new laser-cutting
machine from
Trumpf at a
cost of £1m.
This will help
ADS continue
its growth and, in
so doing, provide
new jobs locally.
https://is.gd/uhomel
3DPrintUK, a provider of polymer
selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D
printing services, has completed the
transition to its new purposedesigned
facility. The Leyton
Industrial Village facility boasts
almost 10,000 ft2 of space,
providing an increase of 8,000 ft2
over its previous location.
https://is.gd/dileje
Protolabs is offering specialist
analyst advice for taking a family
moulding approach to tooling,
a move it says could see
costs slashed by
around 40% on some
injection-moulding
projects.
https://is.gd/
keyoxu
Newly formed WHLead
Ltd, based in
Towcester, is the new
Leadwell CNC Machines UK
representative. It is a sister
company of Whitehouse Machine
Tools, a long-established agency for
machining centres and CNC lathes
manufactured in Japan, Germany,
Italy and Taiwan.
https://is.gd/origop
As of 17 March, over 60
manufacturing companies had
responded to the government’s call
for help in producing ventilators to
combat the coronavirus outbreak.
Some of UK manufacturing’s
leading rms, including Airbus and
Vauxhall, had said they were
planning to 3D-print parts to meet
the demand for as many as
20,000 ventilators in just two
weeks from 16 March. They will use
technical drawings produced by
Innovate UK.
Tony Hague, CEO of PP Control
& Automation and a member of the
Manufacturing Assembly Network
(MAN), has said that the group of
Midlands-based engineering rms
is able to help. “We believe the
best way UK industry can support
them is to provide a skilled
workforce with expertise to increase
manufacturing capacity for electromechanical
sub-assemblies and
key elements, such as pumps,
pneumatics and vacuums, allowing
the OEMs of ventilators to focus on
the core task in hand, thus
eliminating IP and potential
approval processes applicable to
medical devices.”
Many engineering rms have
stepped up to support any
manufacturing push: tooling expert
Ceratizit UK & Ireland;
subcontractor Qualiturn; and 3D
printing specialists Laser Lines of
the UK and US 3D machine maker
Ultimaker, the latter offering its
global network of printing hubs,
experts and designers.
* As we went to press, news
broke of Dyson’s 10,000-ventilator
order from the government, but
many other efforts continue.
Planning permission has been granted for the development of the
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) facility. Situated on
Netherton Campus at the centre of the Advanced Manufacturing
Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire, the new facility is
set to transform manufacturing in Scotland. The brand new carbon-neutral
building is around 1.5 times the size of a football pitch and will include a
skills academy, a fully digitalised factory of the future and a collaboration
hub. The new site will help support manufacturing and engineering rms
of all sizes from all sectors across the country and internationally.
Ceratizit UK & Ireland is one of many
that has offered help in the race to
design and make more ventilators
ADS’ Trumpf 10 kW laser
profi ling unit
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