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15 April 2019

• Collaborative robot specialist joins the X-STK team

  X-STK, the control and automation product sales division of Applied Automation (UK) Ltd has recently recruited collaborative robot specialist, Jessica Watts who will be operating in the mid and north of England and Wales areas.

• Applied Automation (UK) Ltd open new distribution office in Portsmouth

  Plymouth-based industrial control and automation specialists, Applied Automation (UK) Ltd have opened a Portsmouth office, based in Waterlooville, to expand operations into the south of England for its X-STK division.

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12 April 2019

• An Interview with Cameron, Rotaflow’s Loughborough University Engineering Student Intern

  Today we are talking to Cameron Hargreaves, our Loughborough University Engineering student who has joined us for a year on placement. We’re discussing life at Rotaflow and what he has learned during his time with us….

• Custom Made Sponge Rubber Extrusions

  Rubber extrusions make for popular covers when finishing products such as furnishings, equipment and decorative trimming, as well as sealing and controlling noise and vibration.

• Balance of indoors and outdoors

  Ever thought about what triathletes do in the winter? Hibernate, maybe? Or laze around doing nothing? Or even let themselves go entirely? The reality, of course, is none of those, because a widely known and apt adage from the sporting world tells that “summer winners are made in the winter”.

• Life in numerals and measurements

  It is a numeral on the alarm clock that tells me when I should get up. For example today, a perfectly ordinary Thursday. The week is already well advanced and I am correspondingly tired. But none of that is of any help, and because every morning this tiny little numeral resides within me, I enjoy getting up at that time.

• DIN 3852-E or DIN EN ISO 1179-2?

  The DIN 3852-E pressure connection thread standard has been invalid since 2012.

• Experienced site workers to lose Grandfather Rights to skills cards

  More than 60,000 experienced construction workers will no longer be able to renew their skills cards under the “Grandfather Rights” system.

• Apprenticeship levy is making skills shortage worse, says FMB

  The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has issued a statement suggesting that the Apprenticeship Levy is exacerbating the construction skills shortage and must be reformed urgently.