Latest news about Midlands aerospace

AE Aerospace has completed a management buyout preparing it for the next stage of its expansion. The precision machine components maker said it was eyeing new marketplaces and customers and also aiming to strengthen its existing offering to the likes of Goodrich UTC, Rolls-Royce, Moog, Bombardier and BAE Systems.

Hexagon Metrology launches TIGO SF – an accurate and compact 3D-coordinate measuring machine (CMM) specifically designed for use on the shop floor. 

Mitsubishi Materials Corporation, a global provider of materials and cutting tools fo raerospace and other advanced industrial sectors has recently become a tier 2 member of the University of Sheffield AMRC with Boeing.

Wallwork Group has appointed Mike Jarvis director of engineering, responsible for energy management and environmental systems along with selection, installation and maintenance of plant on four sites.

Nasmyth Group, a leading global supplier of precision engineering services, is delighted to announce the successful completion of a Six Sigma training course resulting in another seven of the Group’s employees gaining Green Belt certification.

Leading test and certification group, TRaC Global, has announced it is expanding its testing service offering for the aerospace, defence and rail industries with the unveiling of a new LDS V984 Electromagnetic Shaker at its Warwick testing facility.

Apprentices are flying high at MAA member Greene Tweed & Co.

The firm, which designs and makes thermoplastic seals at its site near Nottingham, already has five apprentices and has pledged to recruit two more in 2014.

Pictured: from left, Neil Hayes, Shaun Motson and Daniel Minchin with Carolina Rodriguez who runs the apprentice project at Greene Tweed & Co.