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14 apprentices work together with employees in fundraising campaign A group of fourteen apprentices at GKN Aerospace’s Yeovil site has completed a campaign of activities that has helped staff raise £1250 for St Margaret’s Hospice. The group of...
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WEAF Member – Supply Chain Survey – PLEASE COMPLETE
“The South West & Wales Aerospace and Defence Supply Chain Survey 2014 is still open and we encourage all businesses to participate so your views can be heard and better understood. Your responses give WEAF a powerful set of messages to use with...
POWERTRAIN COMPETITION OPEN TO ALL SECTORS!
THIS COMPETITION IS OPEN TO ALL SECTORS - PLEASE READ ON! FutureRailway announce £4.4 million Powertrain competition FutureRailway has launched a 100% funded £4.4m competition on Powertrains for Rail Vehicles. The competition is seeking novel technical...
Ferchau Engineering Award For Airbus Work
operated by Ferchau Engineering, operated by Bournemouth-based KDC Group in the UK, formed part of the Airbus-Wing-Level team that has received a bronze award from the Royal Aeronautical Society Award. The award was presented for the work done on testing...
From the 3D Printer into Space
Altair announced today that RUAG Space, with the support of Altair ProductDesign, has built a redesigned, optimized antenna support for an Earth observation satellite, to be produced using industrial additive manufacturing, or 3D...
Fine Tubes to exhibit its industry-leading aerospace products at AIRTEC 2014
Fine Tubes, a world-leading manufacturer and global supplier of precision tubes for a wide range of critical applications, is delighted to announce that it will be exhibiting at AIRTEC 2014 being held at the Exhibition Centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from...
Bristol students tour GKN Aerospace’s state-of-the-art site at Western Approach
UK Government’s See Inside Manufacturing scheme gives young people a taste of working in high-tech aerospace manufacturing GKN Aerospace welcomed 16 students from Bristol Technical Engineering Academy (BTE) into its 30,000m2, state of the art manufacturing...
Local students tour Filton site to see how GKN Aerospace technologies are making aircraft more ‘green’
UK Government’s See Inside Manufacturing scheme gives more young people an insight into a career in aerospace today GKN Aerospace welcomed twenty-one students from two schools into their manufacturing facility at Filton recently to see how the company’s...
Local students tour Yeovil site to see how GKN Aerospace is making things fly
Yeovil’s Lord Mayor sees the UK Government’s ‘See Inside Manufacturing’ scheme in action GKN Aerospace welcomed twenty students from four local schools into their manufacturing facility at Yeovil recently. There the young people saw how...
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace launches service partnership with Airbus Helicopters
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace und Airbus Helicopters have agreed on a close cooperation over the coming years. The aerospace experts of the ThyssenKrupp Group will handle on behalf of the Airbus Group subsidiary the complete supply chain management of metallic raw materials....
ATI CR&D Call opens on October 20th, 2014 – Building UK Leadership in Aerospace Technology
The Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) working in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Innovate UK is to invest up to £25m in collaborative research and development that supports the delivery of the priorities...
Composite Essentials
NetComposites will launch its series of modular training courses at the Advanced Engineering Show, NEC on 11th November 2014, titled “Composite Essentials”. The series, comprising of seven carefully tailored modules, will be presented throughout the day at...