Perfect timing of an investment worth more than £3.5 million in multi-axis machining technology by Mollart Engineering at its two subcontract machining facilities has enabled the business to capitalise on the expanding demand for high technology......

Engineering in the Coventry area has long established links with the production of military fighting vehicles and transport. One company continuing this tradition is Lightning Aerospace – an organisation involved in the rapid production of component parts for the......

In a matter of weeks, Accurate Laser will be opening its second subcontract laser cutting company in the UK. The success of its quick turnaround, small batch manufacturing facility in the West Midlands has led to a replication of the proven business model in Leeds.......

Machining crankshafts – particularly large scale varieties – is not for the faint-hearted. If the logistical challenge of moving the huge steel forgings around the shopfloor wasn’t enough, there are the micron level dimensional and geometric......

Gordon Griffiths has spent his entire working life in one place, beginning in 1964 as an apprentice with a gauge and toolmaking company based in Markyate, Hertfordshire. ...

As the tide of recession at last begins to ebb, the manufacturing landscape for subcontract companies has undoubtedly changed. Many have lost business as customers have gone under or moved to lower cost suppliers abroad and in turn several companies have cut costs......

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......