Birmingham-based metal stamping company Brandauer has announced a £1.5m export boost.

The company, which employs 67 people, has secured orders to supply customers in the Netherlands, the United States and, for the first time, Israel. This work has helped the family-owned business increase sales to £9.2m and proved a major factor in Brandauer recently securing a Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Trade) – one of only 16 companies in the West Midlands to receive the accolade.
The management team at Brandauer is focused on doubling turnover to £18m by 2022, and has invested £3m in the latest metrology technology and high-speed presses from Bruderer and Yamada to help achieve the ambitious plans.
For further information www.brandauer.co.uk

A real-time status board display system for the shop floor is the latest acquisition by Sheldon Precision Engineering for its PSL Datatrack production control software system.

This fast-growing Barnstaple-based company provides specialist subcontract engineering and turned-parts manufacturing services which have been managed using PSL Datatrack since the business started. PSL’s status boards provide real-time visual information on any aspect of production, including the current work-to list, all jobs requiring work that day, and updates – such as material and component
stock levels.
For further information www.psldatatrack.com

A one-day seminar and open house on the manufacturing of gears will be held at NCMT’s Coventry technical centre and showroom on 9 July 2019.

Various production methods will be demonstrated on Japanese-built Makino and Okuma machining centres, as well as on one of the latter manufacturer’s multi-tasking turn-mill machines.
Methods covered will include hobbing, power skiving and ‘InvoMilling’, which is capable of producing different gears using the same standard machine platform. Gear grinding will also feature, involving the use of NCMT’s proprietary EasyGear grinding software. Makino wire-cut and die-sink EDM production solutions will be among further presentations at the event.
To register email florencejones@ncmt.co.uk

Around £250,000 of investment looks set to deliver a record-breaking year for a Black Country foundry.

Midland Pressure Diecasting (MPD), which employs 65 people across two sites in Willenhall, has purchased a CNC vertical machining centre and a spark eroder to help with growing demand from clients looking to re-shore due to quality issues from overseas suppliers. The company says that over £1m of orders are in the pipeline, and the recent investment will ensure MPD has the capacity to complete in excess of £5m in sales by January 2020; its best-ever year since formation in 2000.
For further information
http://midlandpressurediecasting.co.uk/

OGP UK and Verus Metrology Partners have shaken hands on a formal partnership designed to help customers improve their production processes.

The deal will see all bespoke jigs and fixtures for OGP UK supplied by Verus Metrology Partners, alongside an agreement for OGP UK to supply V-FIX – the modular metrology fixture product from Verus – for non-bespoke fixture solutions. Verus owns and operates 13 OGP SmartScope machines from the CNC and ZIP ranges, using them to provide customers with metrology fixture and programme packages, and helping to accelerate new product introductions.
For further information www.ogpuk.com