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The Shareholders and the Board of the Oxley Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Darren Cavan as Oxley Group Chief Executive Officer.

The University of Sheffield has been announced today (Thursday 6 December 2018) as a partner in GKN Aerospace’s new Global Technology Centre (GTC) aiming to accelerate the adoption of new digital technologies in the aerospace manufacturing, by the Business Secretary Greg Clark.

Entire aircraft wing assemblies could be transported by intelligent, autonomous robots at the vast Airbus production facility in North Wales following a collaborative research project with engineers at the AMRC’s Integrated Manufacturing Group.

The global aerospace sector is strong, with recovery in international travel leading to strong orders for aircraft and associated components. The UK’s aerospace sector is one of the largest in the world, and its value added grew by almost 9% per year between 2010 and 2016 (according to the Aerospace Technology Institute, ATI). However, the industry is under increasing pressure to reduce the environmental impact of air travel, and electric and hybrid propulsions systems is one of the options being explored to address this.

Milling strategies and experience pave way to new business for Takumi with support from Ceratizit UK & Ireland.

The North West Aerospace Alliance (NWAA) were delighted to hear the news at Farnborough International Airshow 2018 that the UK would bring its enviable array of skills and technology together, in Team Tempest, to develop and manufacture Britain’s next generation and world beating fighter jet.

NWAA was pleased to hold its latest Supply Chain Workshop in Liverpool on Wednesday 14th November, within the Digital Manufacturing Week EXPO.

Building on many years of successfully manufacturing and supplying to the Automotive and Commercial Vehicle industry, latest NWAA member Sigma ASL now have the Aerospace industry firmly in their sights.

How do you get more than 30 of the UK’s top aerospace manufacturing and machining people to take time out from their business?

A leading overseas manufacturer of high quality tooling has recently installed an automated Guyson Multiblast® RXS400 blast system for the dual purposes of removing of oxidation and heat treatment salts from HSS Round End Mills and to provide an attractive cosmetic surface finish prior to applying anti-rusting oil.