A manufacturer of visual inspection and measurement technologies, Vision Engineering, has sold over 20,000 Mantis microscope products in the past five years.

The Mantis ‘eyepiece-less’ stereo microscope is said to offer high levels of optical performance with magnification options up to 20x, making it a desirable alternative to more traditional inspection stereo microscopes. Vision Engineering’s Mantis was first introduced in 1994. Today, the microscope is still Vision Engineering’s most successful and popular product range, and now comprises Mantis Compact, Mantis Elite and Mantis Elite-Cam HD.
For further information www.visioneng.com

Electro-mechanical repair specialist Rotamec has opened a facility in Pontypool, Wales, to provide localised 24/7 maintenance and repair support to operators of engineered equipment.

The new facility has a high capacity to meet demanding or time-sensitive projects, thus ensuring that customers benefit from Rotamec’s expertise in rotating equipment, motor repairs, parts sourcing, gearbox repairs and additional services, which include machining and pump testing.
For further information https://rotamec.com/

Aqueous parts cleaning and degreasing specialist MecWash Systems will be exhibiting its latest technology at three major UK industry events in 2020.

Southern Manufacturing will return to Farnborough on 11-13 February, where from stand J230 MecWash will be running demonstrations of its Duo aqueous component cleaning machine. Next up will be the National Fluid Power Centre industry open day on 19 February in Worksop, before MecWash attends MACH 2020, which will be held at the NEC on 20-24 April. MecWash will be at stand 18-114, demonstrating both the Duo and an MWX400 parts-washing system.
For further information www.mecwash.com

A UK provider of engineering solutions is celebrating a major birthday in style after announcing a £1m boost in sales and creating 11 new jobs.

Deritend Group, which looks after the repair and replacement of electric motors, pumps, gearboxes, electronic controls and induction equipment, is 121 years-old in 2019 and has marked the anniversary with a string of new contracts. Today, the company employs 110 people across four locations in the Black Country, Luton and Middlesbrough and, thanks to the clutch of recent wins, is on course to post £11m annual sales.
A fully equipped fabrication operation in Middlesbrough and a skilled team of engineers located strategically across the UK supports customers ranging from Severn Trent/Thames Water and JCB, to British Steel and Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury. Over £750,000 has been invested in new equipment, recruitment and upskilling its workforce over the past 12 months, with plans in place to relocate its Wolverhampton site to West Bromwich by the start of 2021.
For further information www.deritend.co.uk

The Materials Testing Team at the Bristol-based National Composites Centre (NCC) has recently completed a year-long trial of the Compcut 200 composite plate saw with positive results in terms of overall performance, usability, adaptability and technical precision.

Sharp & Tappin’s Compcut 200 is the latest and smallest model in the Compcut range of composite plate saws. The machine is proving popular with test centres and R&D teams, who recognise and value its compactness, technical performance and affordability.
The NCC was already making use of a large, bespoke Sharp & Tappin plate saw and had approached the company to explore options for a smaller, more flexible unit that could meet an increasing internal demand for speedy small sample cutting across a range of material types, while fulfilling a comprehensive set of technical and operational criteria.
Small batch sample cutting at NCC had previously involved manual cutting with inherent accuracy issues, and a time-consuming administration process to arrange the operation.
The results of installing the Compcut 200 have proved positive, with the machine meeting and exceeding the Testing Team’s expectations, citing success factors such as ease of use, a fully enclosed housing, speedy operational processing, and high precision and cut quality. NCC’s team is now able to react more swiftly to meet R&D and urgent testing requirements, and can increasingly offer quick turnaround sample cutting services to other teams within the organisation.
Ben Sharp, Sharp & Tappin managing director, says: “By the nature of their work, the team at the NCC had a very precise and specific set of criteria for establishing a more effective sample cutting operation, and the success of the Compcut 200 more than justifies our faith in this most effective compact composite plate saw.”
For further information www.sharpandtappin.com