Good morning and welcome to this week’s Friday Brief.
We are launching a new quarterly advertorial e-newsletter to promote the excellent work our membership do. Each issue will have 8-10 companies featured and will be widely distributed and promoted by the MTA. For more information on how to contribute check out the below story.
Representatives from the MTA team will be at CIMT in China next week if you are out in Beijing please come and see us on the UK Pavilion in hall W3.
A new manufacturing based website is being launched next week. Made Here Now is supported by 45 influential manufacturing organisations, the site launches on the evening of 23rd April in London, if you wish to attend please email events@madeherenow.com.
Delcam are holding open house events at DMG- MORI showroom in Coventry on 6th and 7th May, visit www.delcam.co.uk/opendays for more information.
It is that time of year again where we encourage you to connect with your local schools to promote the TDI Challenge. The TDI Challenge is open to anyone between the ages of 14-19 who has created an impressive design technology project. Full details of how to enter are below.
Matsuura Machinery are holding a series of open days in May at their Coalville UK headquarters on the 19th, 20th and 21st please visit this link for further details http://www.matsuura.co.uk/news/2015/04/08/vip-open-days-registration-may...
Bob Jones director and shareholder of Jack Golf Ltd and associate company of Golf Alchemy Ltd are seeking a machinist to work with them machining a range of golf clubs. They are looking for a company who can mill, turn and bore to close tolerances. The grooves on the striking face of the club are very tightly controlled. They expect volumes to run at circa 50,000 pieces per annum. For more details of the company, please visit www.golfalchemy.co.uk or contact Bob Jones raj.associates@hotmail.co.uk or phone 07775 997980.
In the Economic News this week; European industrial production improved in February, with capital goods running at about the same level as the sector as a whole. The Us machine tool market is down this year, but that seems to be mainly due to some investment incentives expiring at the end of 2014 which brought forward some business in to the end of 2014; cutting tool demand is up a little which supports the view that the underlying position is good.
That’s all for this we’ll be back next Friday with more industry news.