Industrial Engineering

Air show sets a lucrative stage for surveillance planes (and the nuts and bolts)

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

FIRST you see the aircraft performing gravity-defying manoeuvres in eery silence before deafening noise catches up with your vision.

It is much like doing business at the Farnborough Air Show, where there is always going to be a delay between the big visual impact of...

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JCB's reliability earns it a multi-million-pound deal

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

DIGGER manufacturer JCB has secured a large order for its machines from a London plant hire company. The Rocester-based firm has not disclosed the...

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Components for Trent 1000 will be produced in Spondon

Anita Bell of Accrofab with the vacuum furnace.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A DERBY precision engineering company has been awarded a contract to supply Rolls-Royce with components for the Trent 1000 engine. Accrofab, in...

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Skill shortage fear of engineering firm

Friday, July 23, 2010

A fast-growing engineering firm says its expansion plans are being threatened because it cannot find suitable staff. Ridgway Machines, of Anstey, says...

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JCB profits up on bigger market share

Thursday, July 15, 2010

WHILE Thorntons struggles, another large local employer, digger manufacturer JCB, appears to be on the road to recovery. Yesterday, despite announcing...

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15 jobs created as specialist metal recycling firm sets up hub in Derbyshire

Peer Hashmi, of SOS Metals, inspects a used jet engine part.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

A SPECIALIST metals recycling firm has been opened in Derbyshire, creating 15 jobs. US recycling business SOS International Holdings' site in South...

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R-R experience is a valuable commodity in supply sector

Oliver Astley in conversation with Kevin Dexter at the Priest House Hotel in Castle Donington.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

IT is a almost as if the gamekeeper has turned poacher. After the best part of two decades working to procure supplies and parts for Rolls-Royce in...

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Anxious times for Bombardier as Government reviews spending

more work: Experts fear time could be running out for Bombardier. Their factory is based on Litchurch Lane, Derby.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

WITH the new government saying that it intends to review the spending commitments of the previous administration, the likes of train-maker Bombardier...

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Talks under way to buy troubled rail training firm

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

TALKS are taking place with potential buyers of a Derby rail training firm that went into administration last week. Catalis, based at the Derby...

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Sperry Rail secures track-testing equipment contracts worth £5m

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

A RAIL firm in Derby has landed two high-profile international contracts for testing equipment worth a total of £5m. Sperry Rail will be building...

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