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Dry fitting for prototype building

Here at Bennett Engineering we provide a mechanical design engineering service where we create bespoke designs to solve your challenges; this can be anything from large scale machinery, access platforms, lifting jigs and smaller equipment. For some projects it’s important to create a prototype before going to mass production or even making 2 more machines, […]

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East Midlands Chamber Manufacturing and Trade Conference 2025

Bennett Engineering were an exhibitor at the recent East Midlands Chamber Manufacturing and Trade Conference, read our round up of the event in our latest blog which highlights the morning speeches.

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Engineering Echo – January

Welcome to January’s Engineering Echo! That’s the new name for our monthly newsletter, we send this out to our regular contacts but like to share on here too so you can see what we’ve got up to recently and what’s caught our eye. Industrial strategy progressing How will having an industrial strategy impact you if […]

25 Years of Bennett Engineering

Celebrating 25 years and a move to Derby

Bennett Engineering are celebrating 25 years in business at the end of November 2024 and have moved to an industrial unit in Derby

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Recycling week

Bennett Engineering are advocates of reducing waste and selecting the right material as basics, recently we’ve been working with an innovator in the recycling space and provided value engineering services for a factory in a box.

National Manufacturing Day

National Manufacturing Day

On MAKE UK’s annual National Manufacturing Day Bennett Engineering invited in St Andrew’s Academy into our industrial unit to experience a workplace in action.

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New HQ for Bennett Engineering

Bennett Engineering have a new HQ in Derby and we’ve moved into an industrial unit enabling us to provide mechanical design, manufacturing and assembly services

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The UK Manufacturing Industry Outlook for the H2 2024

As we move into second half of 2024 Bennett Engineering have scanned the UK manufacturing industry to see what’s what for the remainder of this year.

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Bennett Engineering in Growth Mode with new appointments announced

An announcement on two new appointments (well one new person and one stepping up into the business properly!) for Bennett Engineering to kickstart our year.

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The monthly news from Bennett Engineering

Read the latest news from Bennett Engineering (March 2023) which covers sustainability, springy projects, toilet paper made from bamboo and engineering talent.

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The monthly news from Bennett Engineering

Read the latest news from Bennett Engineering (September 2022) which covers coin making, 3D printing, planned preventative maintenance and a long journey.

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The monthly news from Bennett Engineering

Read the latest news from Bennett Engineering (September 2022) which covers coin making, 3D printing, planned preventative maintenance and a long journey.

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PRESS RELEASE: Using engineering to make life easier for medics

The latest news. For the last 20 years Bennett Engineering Design Solutions have been working with medical professionals at Kings College London to help solve the niggles in their working environment.

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The monthly news from Bennett Engineering

Read the latest news from Bennett Engineering (August 2022) which covers can opening, pausing projects, robots or people, sticking around and regional manufacturing stats

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Opening the doors

Are you a manufacturer throwing open your doors to showcase what you do on a daily basis today? People need to see!

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Where does your magic happen?

The places where you can pull a solution out of a hat, or get people mesmerised with your tricks for moving a project on. Where are they? In this blog read about our places where magical stuff happens.

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Keeping the spotlight on why manufacturing matters from the £183billion it contributes to the economy to the reverence for Made in Britain products around the world.

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Can we talk about KIS?

The definition of complex and simple enables you to see why KISS is so important for engineering projects and always opting for simple

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Need more ginger for your project

Sometimes projects need a kickstart; removal of the ‘inflammation’ that might have occurred internally over the duration of the project helps…

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Pigs might fly

Cardiac operating theatres need to be efficient for the people working in them especially with medical innovations like pig heart transplants

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What are you designing for?

What do you want designing doesn’t provide enough to start a project; even though it’s important stuff to start off with….

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Looking to invest?

Are you wondering how to start a successful investment programme on your site?

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

When it comes to engineers there’s a lot of inspirational people from history whose innovation and intellect have given us the tools…

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Do the ongoing projects in your organisation stall when the summer holidays come around?

very year summer comes around and it’s long been considered as a ‘quiet period’. For some manufacturers this becomes a PERFECT time to get…

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An ingenious invention

Did you know that Percy Shaw invented reflective cats eye studs for our roads in 1934?

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How do you choose materials?

It’s Plastic Free July. Whilst this is a campaign to clear the oceans of plastics which hurt the creatures…

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What does AI mean to you as a manufacturer?

Artificial Intelligence as a sector has seen huge investment over the last few years and some would argue the UK are leading the way when it comes to AI…

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What’s the predictions for the UK manufacturing industry?

Did any of us who work in the manufacturing arena ever expect plant teams to be working from home?

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What are manufacturing and engineering drawings?

Are you wondering what manufacturing and engineering drawings are?

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Finding a Simple Solution

Sometimes people struggle to find a solution. Sometimes there are a range of solutions that will solve a challenge….

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Book worms

To celebrate world book day John and Craig have told us all about the latest book they have been reading.

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Which box?

What box? You know that phrase ‘think outside of the box’ what does it mean to you?…

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Was 2020 the year of review for you

Was 2020 the year of review for you? That’s exactly what the last few months of 2020 were here at Bennett Engineering Design Solutions….

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What’s the best way to start a project?

There are lots of project management principles, perhaps you have your own internal process or even a qualified project manager. As design engineers…

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Open for Business

2021 hasn’t really kicked off in the way many of us in the manufacturing and engineering sector, well maybe widen that to the nation, …

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When one becomes two

Seth was handed a set of broken water speakers and came up with the idea of making a giant water speaker that…

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What’s the big deal on tolerances?

There’s one thing you need to be clear on when you approach any mechanical design project and it’s this:…

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The importance of a whiteboard and conversations

Something our team likes to call ‘smart sketching, the Bennetts way’…

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What are your thoughts on factory automation?

One of the key trends highlighted is the ongoing automation that will continue to be deployed in …

Deploying tech faster than ever before

How has this year’s speedy move to the virtual arena impacted on your manufacturing business?

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How do you approach planning for your business?

The Bennett Engineering management team are, without sounding too geeky, planning fans. It’s in our nature as engineers…

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How a Riveted Sailing Ship was Built by Ian Ramsay

What amazed me about the whole process is that the desired shape of the ship, including every rib and…

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How do you celebrate your team’s accomplishments?

hen people perform it’s really important that it’s acknowledged, when people achieve something it’s…

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Challenge Solved, Next Challenge

It could be said that challenge is one of our favourite words. When the phone rings and an engineering…

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Craig’s Engineering Expertise to Bicycle Renovations

This hasn’t just been Engineering lessons, but also the intricacies of running a business…

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Benefits of 3D CAD Modelling

‘What are your Top 3 benefits of 3D CAD Modelling?’ asked the Bennett Engineering sales and marketing team…

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Bennett Engineering’s COVID-19 Response

Like many other businesses currently operating under very unusual conditions, Bennett Engineering has moved to a home working…

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Seth Billings – The Exciting Projects that Lead To His Role at Bennett Engineering

The newest design engineer at Bennett Engineering has a lot more to offer than the recent completion of his Mechanical Engineering…

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Creativity and engineering as a hobby

Having been given the opportunity to sit with John Bennett, the founder and director of Bennett Engineering with 50 years of experience to offer…

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SolidWorks for Jordan

It’s a big congratulations to Jordan Carmichael, who successfully achieved his SolidWorks Professional Level Advanced Weldments Qualification (CSWPA).

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BEEAs 2019

AGAIN! Shortlisted for the British Engineering Excellence Awards 2019

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Meet the New Team

What a year of growth 2019 has delivered so far. Let us introduce you to Jordan, Rebecca

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Bennett’s 2018 Success

Craig was featured in the East Midlands Chamber magazine discussing the Directorship Training Programme he completed. Joe completed the Certified Solidworks Associate

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Bennett Engineering BEEAS

Bennett Engineering have been shortlisted by the British Engineering Excellence Awards…

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Working with Laurence Duncan, Action Coach

Bennett Engineering have recently started working closely with Action Coach Laurence Duncan….

Craig’s 6 Years

On the 28th of July 2012 I started working with John at Bennett Engineering…

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Amy – Season 2018

My 2018 season so far has been amazing….

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Manufacturing and Engineering Conference 2018

Bennett Engineering recently exhibited at the East Midlands Manufacturing and Engineering Conference…

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Joe Joins Bennett

Joe has joined the Bennett Engineering Design Team…

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Amy – World Indoor Bronze

Amy represented Great Britain at the World Indoor Championships in the 4x400m relay….

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Directorship Development Programme

Over the last few months Craig completed the Directorship Development Programme …

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Marley Eternit

Marley Eternit asked for our expertise to upgrade the granulate recycling…

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2017 for Bennett Engineering

A look back at 2017…

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Positive Leadership Training

Craig recently met Tony Brooks through an East Midlands…

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Amy joins Bennett

Amy has joined the Bennett Engineering Design team as a…

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Training and Development

Craig has started the Director Development Programme with the East Midlands Chamber where he will increase…

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#LBF2017 LATi Innovation InCharnwood Exhibition

We recently exhibited at Loughborough Town Hall at the LATi Innovation InCharnwood Exhibition with DesignConsultant.co.uk. Many visitors took…

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Designconsultants.co.uk Competition

Design Consultants are currently running a social media campaign allowing opportunities to win an…

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“My time at Bennett”

For those of you that are not already aware, I have recently decided to take a new opportunity moving into a new career path. So, after a bit more than…

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Lean Management

Irene has been working hard with lean management, as a result, we now have a more simple and formalised design process. Watch the video…

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Eureka Magazine

Anyone found the article that we are featured in yet? If not read it here!

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LATI: AI & Machine Learning

Irene attended to the LATI Expert Exchange held at NTU Clifton Campus. The outstanding speakers provided a look at what is happening in the world…

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Recap of 2016 Video

We have recently put together a quick video to recap some of the projects we completed during 2016 and what else we got up to. The projects shown…

Craig becomes Professionally Registered

After a number of years of hard work, and as stated last year, Craig was aiming to become Professionally Registered as an Incorporated Engineer by…

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Irene Introduces Lean Management

We are currently working through Lean Design Management. Irene met with Ana from Blueprint Interiors and talked about how to implement the Lean…

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3D Printed Electronics Holder

A Client’s key product required a unique solution for holding electronic equipment. The delivery time we were up against was a challenge….

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2016 Recap – COMING SOON!

Remember our 2015 recap video from last year?…Well Irene is currently working on the 2016 recap video so keep an eye out in January for when it is…

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Craig Wins HP Workstation

Craig won second prize from Develop3D’s online survey. The prize was a Z240 HP Workstation and FirePro graphics card. This will most certainly….

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Attending the “Made in the Midlands” Event

We attended the Made in the Midlands Event at the IPRO Stadium on the 17th of November. It was a great opportunity to network and where we…

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“Engineer Creates……” IT IS US!

Have you seen this ARTICLE that was published in the Leicester Mercury about our “Cardioplegia Clamps” on the 28th October?…

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LATI – From Earth to Space and Beyond

John exhibited at the LATI 2016 Members Showcase at the Sir Denis Rooke Building at Loughborough University’s Science and Enterprise…

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SolidWorks 2017 Launch Event

Craig and Irene attended this year’s SolidWorks 2017 Launch Event in Warwickshire held by SolidSolutions. The event presented what is…

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Engineering & Design Shows 2016

On the 19th October John attended to the Engineering Design Show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry and is due to attend to the…

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2000 Followers on Twitter!

We are so close to 2000 followers on twitter…. who will be the 2000th follower? Make sure to follow if you haven’t done so already.

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ARR Gauge Corner Weld Restoration

“Running steel wheels on steel rails creates very arduous contact conditions that lead to wear of the two mating components. The rate of wear is further exacerbated in tramway…

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Visit to GLW Feeds

Craig and Irene visited the GLW Feeds factory in Shepshed. GLW feed was founded in 1873 and since then they have evolved and grown as a….

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Cardioplegia Clamp

We have recently designed these 3D printed Cardioplegia Clamps. We delivered out first batch and have received…

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Optimised Engineering Design – GRM Event

On Thursday, 21st April 2016, Irene and Craig attended an Optimised Engineering Design event at the Williams Conference Centre in…

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Gauge Holders – Video

Our Gauge Holders have simplified a time consuming task during a regular clean down. They have many other benefits and option. Watch the video and…

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Download & Links Page

Let us introduce you to our FREE “Download & Links” page. We felt we should share some of the tips and tricks that we integrate into our…

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Materialise Metal Tour

On the 18th of March Craig and Irene attended another event held by Materialise “3DP Academy Metal Tour” to increase their knowledge…

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Recap of 2015 Video

We have recently put together a quick video to recap some of the projects we completed during 2015 and what else we got up to. The projects…

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“Up-to-date with SolidWorks Visualisation”

On the 1st of March Irene attended to the Customer Event – Creating Graphical Content & Lifelike Visualisations held by SolidSolutions at the…

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Factory Visit to Trelleborg

Last month John and Irene visited the Trelleborg Industrial Anti-Vibration Solutions factory in Leicester. Trelleborg design, manufacture and deliver polymer solutions for…

Horiba Mira Visit

We would like to thank the Institute of Engineering and Technology for arranging the visit to Horiba Mira Ltd in Nuneaton. It was a great morning…

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Standing Tall – WetMate

We recently were provided an update on a project that we assisted with the mechanical design concept. Great to see the adapted concept…

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Visit to Norton Motorcycles

Norton has been involved in the design and manufacture of bikes since 1898. After going through a lot of changes Norton moved to its current home at Donnington Park in…

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Internal Growth Accelerator

Over the last 3 to 4 months we have been working closely with Steve Black with a personalised Growth Accelerator that we created internally. We have…

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Irene’s Morning Networking

We believe that meeting people face to face is still a very important activity, critical to personal and professional development. Irene attended…

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3D Printed Gauge Holders – Latest Batch

Another batch of 3D Printed Single and Double Gauge Holders, all quality checked and…

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“Your Virtual Design Team”

Over the last couple of months we have been trying to think of a very simple way to describe what we do as a…

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Website Updates!

Over the past month we have had our “News Page” redeveloped for the website…

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Materialise – 3DP Academy Workshop

As previously mentioned we were invited to attend a 3D Printing Workshop held by Materialise UK. This event…

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Employee Success

Recently Irene and Craig attended the SolidWorks 2016 Launch event held by SolidSolutions. This enabled them…

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FEA Collaboration with TecQuipment

We have developed in collaboration with TecQuipment a range of steel & 3D Printed testing specimens that will be tested to…

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Materialise -3DP Academy

We have been invited to attend a “Design & Engineering For 3D Printing” seminar/workshop by Materialise. This will enable us…

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SolidWorks 2016

Craig and Irene are due to visit the latest software launch of “SolidWorks 2016” on Tuesday 20th October at the main event…

Autumn Networking

John is due to visit the Engineering Design Show on the 21st of October and the Advanced Engineering UK Show on the 4/5th of November.

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Loughborough Wins Gold

Loughborough has recently won the “Best Small City” Bloom award. Great to see a project in the spotlight.

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Britain in Bloom

Adam Lauda the MD of Lauda Fabrications had a great idea for helping Loughborough compete in the Britain in Bloom competition.

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Improving Products

We are currently working with Nigel Atherton from Joulefusion helping him improve his product.

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A Bridge Too Far

From Concept to Installation in under two weeks. Team work, cooperation and good design were instrumental in achieving the necessary result.

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Freedom of Design

We faced the challenge of designing components that secure and protect a micro-switch, cables, terminals and provides a mounting feature for energy chain.

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A Gripping Product

Orders for 3D printed products keep coming. We had a recent order of 25 of these clever and neat pacer box holders that were designed earlier this year.

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Freedom to Design

We are currently working with 3D printing technology that allows us to design very complex parts that do a number of jobs at a very reasonable cost.

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Over 30 3D-Printed Products

Over 30 3D-Printed Products were delivered to our Clients last month. Have a look at our 3D Printing Design page to see the benefits for you.

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The Future Today

We recognised that our clients would be fascinated by Additive Manufacturing so we put on a Seminar with Materialise UK to demonstrate how they could benefit from this exciting technology.

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Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing)

In recent years 3D Printing technology has made huge advances in both the materials that can be printed and the durability of the parts.

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Visualisation to Reality for Lauda Fabrications Ltd

his job started as a quick visualisation model to enable Lauda Fabrications to show their client the concept design for the entrance to the library.

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