To both casual observer and battle hardened entrepreneur alike, starting an engineering business during the worst recession since records began would at best be conceived as a risky undertaking. But for a West Midlands-based brother and sister partnership, following in......

An ethos of excellence is what Tridan Engineering believes has kept it strong over the last few years as it continues to streamline its processes and invest in people and plant, but how exactly has this been achieved?  Amongst the disruption in the......

Celebrating its first year in business, joint company directors Yian Stavrou and George Dingley of Sub-CNC Precision reflect on how they launched, and have subsequently grown, their subcontract precision engineering business from a standing start – as the......

According to Mollart Engineering, the flexibility of its 5-axis Centeplex in combining deep hole drilling of compound angle holes and thread milling into a single cycle has won its subcontract division an order to produce 36 oil feed porting holes in a 7.5 tonne marine......

Sheffield-based Flame Hardeners offers a number of services including surface hardening and tempering, hardness testing and MPI (Magnetic Particle Inspection) of engineering components in suitable materials using both flame hardening and induction hardening techniques......

With more than 1,700 different form tools being used in a typical year to service its 38 multi-spindle automatic lathes engaged in turned part production, the switch to the use of wire EDM technology by Rodmatic Multico, has enabled special tool costs to be slashed by......

Building a clean room in the production area of its Welwyn Garden City facility has paid dividends for Unicut Precision as it was a key element in securing a contract to initially supply 5,000 assemblies a year for direct to line delivery at the customer. The contract,......

The acquisition of the Exhall Grinding & Engineering Company and the creation of a new group headquarters and technical centre by Arrowsmith Engineering are the latest steps on the path to manufacturing and business growth by the ambitious Coventry-based aerospace......

The volume production division of the Reading based Rodmatic subcontract operation, Rodmatic Multico, has completed the first stage investment to produce 20,000 mechanical components a week for assembly in energy efficiency monitoring equipment. The contract that......

Over the past 35 years, Manchester-based Hopkinson & Hopwood has developed and diversified its operation to accommodate many aspects of gear manufacturing and subcontract machining. With a plant list now extending to over 175 machine tools, its most recent......