Set around the challenge to build and operate a purely electric racing car, this year’s Formula Student (Electric) competition put student designers to the test. To prepare several teams for the event, the VDI Racing Camp powered by norelem brought together more than 250 participants from across Germany, preparing them for the prestigious competition by providing components and support to each team.

Taking place on 1 May 2024 at the National Motorcycle Museum, Food Manufacturing Live serves the design, production, process and maintenance engineering teams across the UK food and drink manufacturing sector.

WDS Components continues to strengthen its commitment to customers, including optimised stock availability and delivery, as well as ensuring quality throughout the entire customer journey. Now the Leeds manufacturer and supplier of standard parts and components has underpinned its customer assurance with the re-energising of its Core Values.

Essentra has been awarded a silver medal by EcoVadis, the global provider of business sustainability ratings, as confirmation of the organisation’s ongoing journey towards a more sustainable future.

WDS Components has been named Regional Winner for the “Small Medium Enterprise (SME) of the Year” in the Northeast, Yorkshire and Humberside category at the prestigious MAKE UK Manufacturing Awards 2023.

Using the newly available Welducation Simulator from Fronius, welders can learn, train and consolidate their welding skills step-by-step under realistic conditions without any risk to safety and with no additional costs for materials, gases, or wear parts.

Henkel is offering its support to body shops across the country with free in-person demonstrations of LOCTITE and TEROSON products, with the goal of helping them lower costs, improve the quality of repairs and reduce key-to-key times.

Essentra has opened a substantial new manufacturing and distribution hub in Monterrey, Mexico, both to increase production capacity for existing customers in North America, but also to grow its customer base in Mexico and Latin America.

Cees Fasteners, a privately owned supplier of high quality fastenings, is delighted to announce its partnership in the UK with Italian Brush manufacturer, Simoni.

The FDB says its online store features an extensive range of locks, swinghandles, hinges, handles, sealing gaskets, rod locks, door stays and other enclosure/cabinet accessories – all held in stock for urgent delivery, and come together with the Rocfast lock assembly and logistics service.

When a metal-assembly manufacturer was looking to develop a sensor-based system to detect the presence or absence of multiple weld nuts on a single panel, reliably and repeatably, it turned to Contrinex.

As a key part to its ongoing commitment to grow its production capabilities and continue providing its customers with unmatched service, WDS Components has integrated a new 4-axis milling machine into its workshop.

RS Group has announced that four of its near-term climate reduction targets have received validation from the SBTi. The SBTi is a global body that drives ambitious climate action in the private sector by enabling organisations to set science-based emissions reduction targets.

Essentra has created a new Centre of Excellence at its manufacturing and distribution site and UK headquarters in Kidlington to test and develop new materials that will in turn enable it to offer even more sustainable product ranges globally for its customers.

The first ever MachineBuilding.Live took place at the superb National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham on 4 October and proved a roaring success, with packed aisles, busy stands, new friends made, valuable contacts established and real business done. Exhibitors sang the praises of the show, and are already looking forward to next year’s event.

In a strategic move to bolster its production capabilities and continue delivering unparalleled service to its customers, WDS Components has integrated a new bandsaw machine into its workshop, marking a significant enhancement in its manufacturing processes.

The Kistler Group will be presenting its extensive portfolio of production measurement technology and joining systems for industrial automation at SPS Messe 2023 in Nuremberg from November 14 to 16.

The inaugural MachineBuilding.Live exhibition, held at the National Motorcycle Museum on 4 October, has been hailed as an outstanding success by exhibitors and visitors alike.

RS Group has won the award for ‘Best Company for Sustainability Reporting’ in the industrial sector at the Corporate ESG Awards 2023.

Southco has launched a new wireless access system featuring the Keypanion app, a revolutionary smart access app that lets users wirelessly actuate latches from their smartphones.