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Back to the floor for MP “Apprentice“ - Click here
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Plymouth, Devonport MP Alison Seabeck is going “back to the floor” to get a taste for life as an apprentice.
The Labour MP will be shadowing apprentices at Kawasaki Precision Machinery UK Ltd (KPM) as an extension of National Apprenticeship Week which took place from February 1st to February 5th. |
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Created 22/03/2010 |
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European Metal Recycling Chooses Bandvulc and Fulda - Click here
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European Metal Recycling Ltd (EMR), a global leader in recycled metal products and environmental services, has selected Bandvulc and Fulda tyres as policy fitment for its southern UK based fleet operations. |
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Created 22/03/2010 |
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Vi-Spring & Princess Yachts - Click here
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Vi-Spring believe that “sleeping on the right bed can be a truly life-changing experience.”
The luxury brand has now been selected by Princess Yachts to design and create handmade, pocket sprung mattresses for its entire range of motor yachts.
“We’re looking forward to working together to provide Vi-Spring comfort on Princess Yachts”, says Mike Meehan, Managing Director of Vi-Spring. |
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Created 11/03/2010 |
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A proud day for Wrigley - Click here
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Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh today visited the Wrigley Company’s site in Estover, Plymouth. Meeting associates, the visit included a tour of the company’s quality laboratory, manufacturing line and ended with an unveiling of a plaque celebrating the company’s 40th anniversary at the site. |
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Created 10/03/2010 |
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Plessey Semiconductors announces planned release of innovative products - Click here
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Plessey Semiconductors announced today the planned release of a number of innovative semiconductor products including a range of amplifiers, demodulators, synthesisers and high-speed pre-scalers. These products have been designed primarily for the defence and space markets, but are also used in the general communications, automotive and industrial control market segments. The types of end products that will use these components include television systems, fibre optic communications, CCTV and data communication systems. |
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Created 10/03/2010 |
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Bombardier celebreates 50 years in the UK Signalling industry - Click here
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Bombardier Transportation will celebrate 50 years in the UK
Signalling Industry. The signalling division of Bombardier, with a UK workforce of
approximately 200 employees based in Reading, Plymouth, Derby and London, will
celebrate its anniversary on March 23rd with a celebration at its Rail Control Solutions (RCS)
site in Plymouth. The site is Bombardier UK’s international engineering centre of excellence
and largest hub for rail control product engineering, project management, quality and safety,
and manufacturing. |
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Created 05/03/2010 |
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BD Named Industry Champion on FORTUNE's List of the 'World's Most Admired Companies' - Click here
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BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has been selected by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the World's Most Admired Companies and ranked #1 in the Medical and Other Precision Equipment category, according to its peers. |
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Created 04/03/2010 |
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Investment in skills key to manufacturing in the city - Click here
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INVESTING in skills is critical in ensuring the future of manufacturing in the city, the Plymouth Employment and Skills Board (ESB) have announced in the run up to National Manufacturing Week, which runs 1st – 5th March. Many firms in Plymouth have been badly hit by the recession, some even disappearing from the city completely.
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Created 25/02/2010 |
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'Low risk' rating a boost for firm - Click here
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ESTOVER-based manufacturer Fine Tubes Ltd has been given a financial risk indicator which shows the business has a low probability of failure.
The firm has been registered as 'Rating 1' with Dun and Bradstreet, which means it has a good 'creditworthiness'. |
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Created 24/02/2010 |
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Barden cuts bearing costs on Hippag air generator - Click here
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Barden has helped Ultra Electronics Precision Air Systems to reduce bearing costs and assembly times on its high-pressure pure air generator by 40-50 per cent.
Ultra produces a range of mini-compressors known as Hippag (High Pressure Pure Air Generators). |
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Created 22/02/2010 |
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Bandvulc Invests £300,000 in ‘World Class’ Production Process - Click here
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Perhaps in an effort to practice what it preaches, Bandvulc recently demonstrated some examples of innovation in in-house design and engineering. As a result, the company has now changed the way it handles over 18,000 truck tyre casings per month and has named this new process Avalon (a reference to the company’s King Arthur-themed production process). |
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Created 16/02/2010 |
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Princess Yachts recognised for its Excellence in the Environmental Business - Click here
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Plymouth-based luxury boat builder and PMG member, Princess Yachts has been recognised for its excellence in the environmental management of its business. The company has just been awarded ISO 14001, making it the first major European-based boat builder to gain this stringent international standard. |
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Created 21/01/2010 |
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BD awarded grant contribution towards £18million investment in Plymouth site - Click here
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Medical equipment manufacturer and PMG member BD - Becton Dickinson and Company - has been awarded £2.2million under the Grant of Business Investment scheme from the Department for Business Innovation and Skills. The business employs 770 people in Plymouth and is the city's third largest private sector employer. |
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Created 01/02/2010 |
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Staff sail through training - Click here
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TWENTY Princess Yachts employees have finished the first phase of their training after the firm linked up with City College Plymouth.
The luxury boat builder collaborated with the college to deliver a bespoke training programme for aspiring marine engineers and carpenters.
The pioneering programme, known as the Princess Carpenter/Engineering Mate Recruitment Scheme, covered a range of marine-specific engineering and carpentry disciplines. |
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Created 25/01/2010 |
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Manufacturer targets Middle East markets - Click here |
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IVYBRIDGE-based acrylics manufacturer and PMG member Luminati Waycon is mounting an assault on the lucrative Middle East hospitality market.
The firm is keen to sell its Clear2C acrylic photo frames in the region and has appointed a Dubai-based sales agent to promote the products.
With help from UKTrade and Investment's Export Marketing Research Scheme, the company recently returned from a successful preliminary market research visit to Dubai. |
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Created 15/12/2009 |
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Firm's acrylic beds take centre stage - Click here |
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Acrylic fabricators and PMG Network member Luminati Waycon has made 48 transparent beds for the English National Opera's production of Handel's masterpeice Messiah.
The Bittaford-based firm supplied the acrylic beds to London's The Coliseum theatre.
They are need as props for the entire chorus to perform on in the resurretion scene in act three. |
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Boat firm signs deal on training - Click here |
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PMG Member, Princess Yachts has signed a ground-breaking training agreement with union Unite.
The Lifelong Learning Agreement will see Princess Yachts' staff taking part in personal and career development courses to complement their job-specific training. |
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Bandvulc Wins Carbon Reduction Category - Click here |
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PMG Member, Bandvulc won the Carbon Reduction category at the recent DEBI 2009 Environmental Awards. Held on 26 November, the awards ceremony took place at the Met Office, Exeter and were presented by Paul Gompertz of Devon Wildlife. Previously overall DEBI Awards winner in 2006, Bandvulc has built on its early success and has put carbon reduction at the forefront of its strategy.
This has been achieved with an enthusiasm and determination that is apparent throughout all areas of the business. The 2009 Carbon Reduction award recognises Bandvulc’s: good environmental practices; encouraging wider interest in the adoption of best environmental practice; promoting the development of novel solutions to environmental problems. |
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Created 26/11/2009 |
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High-quality product ensures firm doesn't go down the tube - Click here |
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ESTOVER-based and PMG member Fine Tubes says its decision to go up market has helped it weather the recession.
The firm – which makes stainless steel, nickel and titanium tubes – made the strategic decision to move to high-quality products six years ago.
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Created 22/10/2009 |
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Vi-Spring to supply US outlet - Click here |
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The luxury bed manufacturer, which produced the £52,000 Majesty bed for retail in Harrods earlier this year, is to supply a range of its beds to a top Chicago outlet.
Vi-Spring's marketing manager, Peter Tasker, said the company's foray into the 'difficult-to-penetrate' US market, was an initial foothold, as the firm sought to offset the effects of a declining UK furniture market.
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Created 16/10/2009 |
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Turnover Rises 17% at Luminati Waycon - Click here
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A PMG member is on course for a 17 per cent increase in turnover this year after making a conscious decision to 'up' its marketing spend despite the onset of the recession.
Luminati Waycon, which makes a range of acrylic and perspex display units and furniture for home, office and retail use, says it is bucking the national trend among UK manufacturers for a decrease in output with a 10 per cent rise in output during the second quarter of this year. |
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Created 09/10/2009 |
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Spinnaker International sources 200k Convergence investment - Click here
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An expansion to globally successful Saltash-based business Spinnaker International has been approved for almost £200k of ERDF (European Regional Development Fund) Convergence investment.
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Created 10/09/2009 |
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Innovation in Manufacturing event - Click here
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"Never has there been a more important time to put innovation at the heart of a manufacturing firm's business strategy".
This was the message delivered by Dr Richard MacIntosh of the South West Manufacturing Advisory Service at the over-subscribed "Innovation in Manufacturing" event hosted at the University of Plymouth on 10th September 2009 and delivered in partnership with Plymouth Manufacturers Group, Enterprise Europe Network and Business Link.
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Created 09/09/2009 |
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Pioneering qualification launched by Plymouth firm - Click here
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A PIONEERING qualification designed by employers to teach manufacturing and product design skills to young people has been launched at a Plymouth company.
Students and employers met up at Kawasaki Precision Machinery's Ernesettle site this week to launch the Diploma in Manufacturing and Product Design qualification.
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Created 29/06/2009 |
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Plymouth Board calls for wage subsidies to support manufacturers - Click here
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Plymouth Employment and Skills Board (ESB), the body set up to
co-ordinate and support employment, skills and training provision
across the city has today called on the government to support
wage subsidies. |
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Created 19/06/2009 |
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Plymouth Manufacturers' Group announces 5 new network members - Click here for more
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The Plymouth Manufacturers’ Group is celebrating the success of its new network for small and medium sized enterprises in signing up five additional members in quick succession. The Network, which was only formed in January of this year, is now ahead of schedule to have recruited 25 members over the first two years of operation. |
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Created 16/06/2009 |
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PMG member officially in top 60 greenest companies in the UK - Click here for more
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Bandvulc Tyres Ltd has been recognised as one of the Top 60 Best Green Companies in the UK by the Sunday Times. At the annual awards ceremony in London Bandvulc’s Managing Director received the award from Alistair McColl (Sunday Times Supplements Editor) for achieving a top 60 placement.
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Created 21/05/2009 |
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PMG Visit Ginsters - Click here for more
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Ten PMG members enjoyed an informative visit to Ginsters on Thursday 21st May at their Tavistock Road site in Callington, Cornwall.
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Created 16/03/2009 |
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New network for city manufacturers - Click here for more
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THE Plymouth Manufacturing Group is launching a new arm to include small and
medium-sized firms.
The PMG group, which helps and advises manufacturing companies across the city, has
never covered SMEs – but it wants to do so now due to the recession. |
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Created 01/10/2008 |
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Promoting skills leads to engineering success - Click here for more
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Plymouth Employment and Skills Board (ESB) are delighted with the success of Karen
Friendship, Managing Director of Alderman Tooling who was named Business Woman of the
Year Award at the recent Plymouth’s Women of Achievement Awards. |
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Created 17/07/2008 |
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Algram crowned champion at Plymouth Challenge! - Click here for more
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The SW Manufacturing Advisory Service has held a tournament challenging PMG
members in Plymouth to put their business acumen to the test and compete against
one another for the title of South West MAS Plymouth Manufacturing Champion. |
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Created 11/06/2008 |
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Value engineering success as local student wins manufacturing title - Click here for more
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Andrew Mason, from Pall, Redruth has designed a potentially revolutionary differential pressure indicator (used to indicate a blockage of a filter system).
Pall, Redruth who has hosted Year in Industry students since 2003 are delighted yet again with how they,
as a company, have benefited.
X-Fab, based at Roborough, Plymouth recently hosted the eighth Plymouth Manufacturers’ Group, Best Manufacturing Project Award competition.
Entrants for this competition were chosen from the Year In Industry scheme. The Year in Industry, based at the Tamar Science Park, is a national not-for-profit organisation that places students with local companies to encourage young people to fulfil their potential in careers in Science, Engineering and Technology. |
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Created 07/04/2008 |
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Mayor meets world champs - Click here for more
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Plymouth's Lord Mayor has met a team of Formula One racing champions with a
difference; they're city school pupils who race model cars.
Cllr David James invited the lads from Devonport High School for Boys to his office
so they could tell him how they triumphed in a global competition to design, build and
race the fastest miniature car on the planet. |
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Created 13/10/2008 |
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30th Anniversary celebrations for the PMG - Click here for more
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Engineering companies in Plymouth will be faced with a series of new opportunities this year, with many
potential benefits for the sector, according to Plymouth Manufacturers’ Group (PMG), which is celebrating
its 30th anniversary. |
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Created 13/10/2008 |
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Manufacturers sign pledge to improve skills - Click here for more |
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Thirteen of Plymouth’s leading manufacturing businesses, representing some 10,000 staff
gathered for the signing of a new Skills Pledge.
The Skills Pledge is a voluntary, public commitment by the leadership of organisations to
demonstrate the importance of investing in the skills and training of their employees. |
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