A package of free manufacturing training has been unveiled to help northeast enterprises and people at risk of redundancy improve their skills and open-up new job opportunities.

Go>Grow is a regional skills and enterprise programme, which has been launched in partnership with 30 local training providers and comes on the back of £15m of funding secured by Gateshead College from the European Social Fund through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). The training is structured around a programme of courses for start-ups or small businesses looking to widen their skills base, or employers who want to upskill or strengthen their workforce.
For further information www.gogrow.org.uk

Renishaw recently hosted two work experience weeks, with 95 students taking part in the company’s ‘Engineering Work Experience’ programme and 14 students attending the ‘Software Work Experience’ programme.

As well as participating in projects, the students were given tours of Renishaw’s Innovation Centre and a careers talk to open their eyes to the opportunities available in engineering and software, and where a career in these sectors could take them. Renishaw offered week long placements at its Wotton-under-Edge headquarters to students aged 15 to 17 from over 40 local schools.
For further information www.renishaw.com/careers

With immediate effect, Whitehouse Machine Tools has been appointed to sell and service in the UK and Irish markets the vertical- and horizontal-spindle machining centres supplied by Toyoda Machinery Europe GmbH, based in Krefeld, Germany. A spokesperson for the Toyoda says: “We decided to award the agency to Whitehouse Machine Tools partly due to the level of service they are able to provide customers.

The agent also has a strong applications engineering capability, which is important to us. The gear skiving process on Toyoda machining centres, for instance, is a good example of a technology that requires a high level of engineering support.”
For further information www.wmtcnc.com