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11 April 2017

• Equipment upgrade at Tisamatic increases blast machine availability by 60 percent

  Mexican foundry Tisamatic has benefitted from a significant reduction in downtime at their new facility in San Luis Potosi after upgrading one of their existing blast machines with new Wheelabrator components.

• Norican announces acquisition of Light Metal Casting Solutions Group

  Taastrup, Denmark: Norican Global A/S ("Norican") the world's leading metallic parts enhancement company (by virtue of its ownership of both DISA and Wheelabrator Group) is pleased to announce that the company has entered into a binding agreement with Auctus Fund III GmbH & Co. KG, and its fellow investors (collectively referred to as "Auctus") to purchase 100% of their shares in Light Metal Casting Solutions Group ("LMCS").

10 April 2017

• Still Going Strong 80 Years On!

  When Gordon & Eve Freer started a business selling buttons in 1937, little did they know that 80 years later their thriving business would still be going from strength to strength.

• Cyber Risk Calculator Launched to Help Businesses Calculate Data & Cyber Risks

  Leading commercial insurance broker, NC Insurance, look at the latest developments in cyber crime and launch their Cyber Risk Calculator.

05 April 2017

• Hamamatsu introduce a new range of MPPC® Silicon Photomultipliers with Enhanced Near-Infrared Sensitivity

  Hamamatsu Photonics introduce their new range of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs); the S13720 series.

• Sheffield Based Special Testing Ltd Expand Testing Facility with New Innovatest Hardness Tester

  Bowers Group has supplied leading materials testing company Special Testing Ltd with an Innovatest hardness tester for its new hardness testing facility based in Sheffield

• See the 3D printing showcase at Automate 2017 from 3-6 April

  Laser Castle is in action on the MWES Booth #1407 3D Additive ‘ADDere’ system, which is taking place live at the show.

• Sanitary tilt-down flexible screw conveyor cleans rapidly, rolls through doorways

  New from Flexicon is a Sanitary Flexible Screw Conveyor that can be tilted down and rolled to serve multiple functions.

• °Cal-check Precision Thermocouple Calibration Checkers (Type K or T)

  °Cal-check Precision Thermocouple Calibration Checkers offer a unique, novel concept for rapid, simple and convenient in-house traceable calibration checking of thermocouple instrumentation A large range includes Calibration Checkers for the baking, cooking and catering industries plus cold-chain and SousVide sets.

31 March 2017

• Reliance Success in UK Space Agency Competition

  Reliance have recently been successful in securing R&D funding from the UK Space Agency via their National Space Technology Programme (NSTP).