Around the Industry

As one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of specialised commercial vehicles, Feldbinder is well known for its customised silo and tank trailers, railway wagons and containers. The company motto is “The lightest commercial vehicles with the maximum volumes possible, a long working life and top quality [design and production]”. It specifies Edbro hydraulic cylinders to help its tipping vehicles reach these goals.

Endress+Hauser announces the launch of its new End User Academy, which allows field technicians to gain the valuable training they need to run plant operations safely, smoothly and more efficiently—all without spending too much time away from their regular job duties. Through its online training modules that cover theory and concepts as prerequisites, the End User Academy gives field technicians the preparation needed to successfully begin on-site and classroom training.

Heason Technology’s distribution partner status with Kollmorgen Europe has been elevated to the top ‘Gold-Partner’ level following a record year in 2012. The Gold-Partner status - the first to be awarded outside Germany or Switzerland - consolidates the UK-wide preferred partner agreement between the two companies.

Microfluidics experts Epigem and Dolomite is pleased to announce that they have collaborated to deliver the design and manufacture of microfluidic devices offering customers more comprehensive product and service solutions. The two companies join forces in the areas of product design and development leveraging specialist capabilities of each corporation, with design and hardware based activities carried out by Dolomite, and polymer process-based manufacturing carried out by Epigem.

Creaform today announced its financial results for 2012. Once again, the company has had a very successful year with C$44.5 million in annual sales, which makes for an organic growth of 19% over 2011. 2012 technology sales show a YOY growth of 38%, with 74% in Q4.

Bank of Cyprus UK has contracted with shentongroup’s unique emergency generator service, Powercall, to provide ‘power within the hour’. The Powercall service ensures that a company has emergency power in situ and connected up within a target time of less than one hour and a guaranteed commitment of three hours.

“Good apprentices are the lifeblood of many small firms and bring tremendous value to the UK economy.” That is the view of John Nollett, Managing Director of award winning Pailton Engineering which has long seen the value of this traditional route for young people to train for a rewarding career. Last year named as one of the top 100 apprenticeship employers in the UK having achieved highly commended status in the National Apprenticeship Awards, Pailton has championed apprenticeships for a number of years.

Fluke has launched a Preventive Maintenance platform on its web site to help industrial maintenance personnel to maximise plant uptime and minimise downtime. Constant condition monitoring maximises component life, tracks equipment wear trends and reduces downtime by identifying problems before they occur.

Managing Director, Lee Darton from Flextraction Ltd has just arrived back from a UK Export Trade mission to Germany, taking in 7 cities including Cologne, Stuttgart and Dresden, to drum up new business for his Company.

Surface Technology has achieved the quality management standard written specifically for the aerospace industry, AS9100 Rev C. Achieving this “gold standard” for the aerospace industry demonstrates Surface Technology’s commitment to quality assurance and will enable it to expand its presence in the aerospace industry.