Updates and announcements from the manufacturing arena

News in brief

Rittal is offering UK customers the chance to ‘test drive’ its Perforex machining and automation systems. Rittal Perforex machining centres are a major advance for switchgear manufacturing

Power engineering contractor Smith Brothers has completed a large-scale assignment to connect the Saint-Gobain Glass manufacturing facility in Eggborough, Goole, to the grid

New research conducted for RSM, the 6th largest audit, tax and consulting network, shows that 8% of businesses in the European Union have cut ties with British suppliers as a direct result of the UK’s impending exit from the EU

Paul Leibinger GmbH, manufacturer of continuous inkjet (CIJ) printers that mark products with information such as batch numbers, best-before dates and 2D codes, used the Motek 2018 trade fair in Stuttgart, to present an inkjet printer for industrial product marking that only consumes 20 watts of power – the JET3up

SIG is the first in its industry – and the fifth company in the world – to achieve certification to the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative’s certification system to recognise and collaboratively foster responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium

Everything is smart nowadays. With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), computer-enabled intelligence has become the name of the game

Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, was on hand at a special ceremony to mark the start of work on TeesAMP – the £55m home of advanced manufacturing in the North

Jacobs Vehicle Systems has announced it will open a manufacturing facility in the city of Brno in the Czech Republic