Pilz Automation has published a 200-page safety guide for mechanical and electrical engineers, machine builders and systems integrators.

Clive Martell, chief executive of CADCAM developer Delcam, has been invited to be a panellist at the UK-China SME CEO Forum to be held by UKTI and the China-Britain Business Council in London on 1 June and which is inteded to help SMEs develop business with China.

Haas UK has won its 40th award at the recently held global dealer meeting at Haas Automation Inc.

UK manufacturers expect strong output growth in the coming quarter, backed by healthy order books, reports the CBI.

Mollart Engineering is now the largest exporter of deep hole drilling machines to the Chinese market.

US-headquartered machine tool maker MAG has acquired France’s Forest Liné Industries Group (FLI).

With global demand for secondary industrial assets rising, Apex Auctions is moving into the Eastern market and opening an office in the Gurgaon region of Delhi, India.

Yamazaki Mazak has pledged its support to initiatives that promote engineering as a career for young people by offering work placements to a number of local students.

Laser sintering machine and powder producer EOS has played a major role in helping the University of Warwick to move up the field in Formula Students, thanks to extensive use of additive manufacture (AM).

The UK economy will continue to make headway in 2011, but growth will be patchy and slow, according to the CBI’s latest economic forecast.