A digital manufacturer is setting its sights on significant opportunities after it secured a prestigious supplier accreditation for the aerospace, security, space and defence industries.

Having supported the sector for several years, Protolabs now enjoys official recognition as a fully compliant and credible supplier to major businesses within the associated industries.

JOSCAR (Joint Supply Chain Accreditation Register) is valued by many of the largest purchasers in the aforementioned sectors, including BAE Systems, NATS, Rolls Royce, Airbus and the Ministry of Defence.

For further information www.protolabs.co.uk

New opportunities in transport, medical and warehousing/logistics are helping one of the West Midlands’ fastest growing manufacturers record its best-ever year. PP Control & Automation, which employs 230 people at its factory in Cheslyn Hay, is on course to post £28m sales for the past 12 months, with a future order pipeline suggesting further growth is on the horizon. The strategic manufacturing outsourcing specialist has seen demand for its services rise by 25% on the previous year, with bosses at the firm believing this is due to a combination of reshoring back to the UK and a desire for greater security of supply.

For further information www.ppcanda.com

A cutting-tool and lubricant solutions provider from the north has joined forces with a tech spin-out from the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre to provide SME engineering firms across northern England with productivity-boosting data analytics that are affordable and easy-to-use. ACT Group, headquartered in Tyne and Wear, has announced its strategic partnership with Sheffield-based FourJaw Manufacturing Analytics, whose cloud-based app and clip-and-play MachineLink hardware provides immediate real-time access to machine utilisation data from across the shop floor.

For further information www.fourjaw.com

Both the new and used machine tool divisions of the Vigilance Group (MACH Machine Tools and Machine Tool Sales Online) will be attending Southern Manufacturing. The companies will be showcasing individual products from their respective ranges on adjacent stands (H310/MACH Machine Tools and J270/MTSO), which are divided by a walkway. Explains Vigilance Group managing director David Andrew: “At Southern Manufacturing we are demonstrating that we can meet manufacturers’ needs by providing them with either new or pre-owned machine tools ready for immediate delivery and installation.”

For further information
www.machmt.co.uk
www.machinetoolsalesonline.com

On stand H250, Industrial Tooling Corporation (ITC) will demonstrate its latest cutting tool innovations alongside new technologies available from Widia and Big Kaiser. Among the new ITC products will be the latest 6054 series end mill, which has a centre cutting geometry with harmonic fluting to maximise material removal rates and swarf evacuation while minimising vibration to enhance surface finish in steel and exotic materials. From the Big Kaiser stable, ITC will introduce the expanded line-up of smart damper-equipped, arbour-style face mill holders that support face mills with diameters of 80 or 100 mm.

For further information www.itc-ltd.co.uk