Mapal, the global tooling specialist, claims big energy savings can be achieved with its latest tooling solutions.

The UK’s Minister for Trade & Investment, Lord Green, visited CADCAM developer Delcam recently. He attended the Aerospace Opportunities 2011 event being held at the company’s Birmingham headquarters.

Improving demand for UK-made goods, especially from abroad, has further boosted UK manufacturers’ expectations for output growth, says the CBI.

Yamazaki Mazak will showcase its INTEGREX j-300 series multi-tasking machine at Midlands Design and Manufacturing 2011, NEC, Birmingham, 6-7 April.

Established in November 2010, Sussex-based Fine Machining has wasted no time investing and installing a Doosan Puma 2600M lathe, a Doosan Puma 3100 lathe and a Doosan DNM 650 vertical machining centre at its Littlehampton facility.

Hexagon Metrology has entered into a partnership with Dormer Tools, based in Sheffield, to demonstrate the benefits of metrology throughout the production cycle.

Mollart Engineering is exhibiting the latest version of its Drill Sprint deep hole drilling machine at the CIMT 2011 exhibition in Beijing, China.

Bystronic UK will hold a series of Spring seminars and product launches at its Coventry showroom and headquarters (Junction 3, M6 motorway, North Coventry).

Hardinge Machine Tools/Bridgeport and Jones and Shipman are to consolidate their technical, distribution and administrative facilities.

Water Jet Sweden (WJS) is about to build and supply what is believed to be the world’s largest water jet profiler to a ThyssenKrupp Group shipyard in Sweden.