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Filtermist moves into new market

Industrial air-filtration specialist Filtermist International, part of the Swedish Absolent Group, has acquired dust-removal expert Dustcheck Ltd in a deal worth £2.3m. Dustcheck manufactures industrial dust collectors and industrial air-filtration systems at its premises in Stoke. The acquisition by Filtermist is designed to strengthen the company’s service offering in the UK’s dust-extraction market as part of growth plans.

Filtermist’s managing director James Stansfield says: “Filtermist is the UK market leader for oil-mist extraction and began expanding its service proposition to include dust, fume and smoke when it became part of the Absolent Group in 2010. The company’s capabilities increased again with the acquisition of Filtertech Ltd and Multi Fan Systems last year; the deal with Dustcheck will further strengthen our dust extraction offering – particularly in large, centralised extraction systems.”
For further information www.filtermist.co.uk
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Apprentice event to be staged by AMRC

The University of Sheffield’s AMRC (Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre) is currently looking for apprentices as part of its March 2018 intake. With this in mind, the organisation is staging an open event on 7 November (16:30-18:00, last entry 17:30) at its £20m training centre in Rotherham.

Anyone can attend who is interested in an engineering career and wants to consider an apprenticeship or degree apprenticeship as the route into industry. The AMRC Training Centre works with over 300 employers offering apprenticeship opportunities to young people on a local-to-national level.
For further information www.amrctraining.co.uk

90% of MACH space allocated

The MACH 2018 manufacturing technologies exhibition is set to take place at the Birmingham NEC on 9-13 April with a new a look and new location. MACH will be staged on the atrium side of the NEC, in Halls 17, 18, 19, 20, 6 and 7, reflecting the changing technologies that the show covers. The exhibition showcases live working machinery including: milling, turning, metrology, additive manufacturing, tooling and Industry 4.0 technologies. Among the overriding themes running through the show will be interconnected technology and the future of manufacturing. So far, 90% of exhibitor space has been allocated.

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James Fudge, head of events at the MTA, says: “MACH is a great barometer for judging the health of the UK’s manufacturing sector, and with 90% of exhibition space sold eight months before the show opens, we can gauge that our exhibitors are buoyant. Exhibitions are a fantastic way to do business, and we feel we have created the perfect environment for that to happen at MACH 2018.”
For further information www.machexhibition.com

£2m investment boost at Lasershape

Lasershape has announced an investment of just over £2m in additional factory space and capital equipment, a move that sees the supplier of subcontract CNC-profiled components transition into a complete service company by adding fabrication, Roshe Run Donna

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An extra benefit is that the company will now have separate goods-in and goods-out, which will help ease congestion during busy periods.

Honorary degree

The chairman and chief executive of Renishaw plc, Sir David McMurtry, will collect an honorary award from the University of Huddersfield, where he and his company have been heavily involved for many years. Sir David is a visiting professor at Huddersfield and Renishaw is a key industrial partner in the university’s EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology. Now, he has the same role with its successor, the EPSRC-funded Future Metrology Hub, a £40m research centre. During his time at Rolls-Royce, Sir David was named as inventor on 47 patents or patent applications, and over 150 at Renishaw.

For further information www.renishaw.com