News for: Engineering

Stockport manufacturer and supplier of military equipment, WFEL, is creating a further 45 jobs to meet continued overseas and domestic demand. The new roles will support the precision engineering and manufacture of military bridges from WFEL's Heaton Chapel facility, and which are sold to over 40 … [Read more...]

MAN Energy Solutions has formally signed a contract to provide its LAES turbomachinery solution to Highview Power’s CRYOBattery facility. The signing took place at Highview’s London offices and follows on the agreement previously reached by the companies in April 2021. Highview, a global leader … [Read more...]

Stockport headquartered aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul company, Aeroco Group, has announced it has been acquired via a management buyout (MBO) by its senior leadership. The new management owners, Chief Executive Jonathan Bird and Managing Director Tony Lewin, acquired the group in a … [Read more...]

A former apprentice from Cheadle engineering firm, Thales, has been named Young Manager of the Year in the 2021 Made in Manchester Awards. Software Engineering Manager, Nadia Johnson (pictured), joined Thales as an apprentice, and now leads a team of 22 engineers, developing software for advanced … [Read more...]

Access automation specialists, Bft Automation (based in Reddish), have created a new parking services department to optimise their revenue from this business area. The creation of a new department will expand on an existing service that Bft Automation has been delivering for some years. The move … [Read more...]

The UK Ministry of Defence has awarded a new military bridging contract worth £46million to Stockport based WFEL. WFEL has received a new contract from the UK’s Ministry of Defence for the supply of 17 Sets of its MGB Medium Girder Bridges following a review of the MoD’s modular gap crossing … [Read more...]

The Nuclear Industry Association's (NIA) latest jobs figures show the number employed in the industry in the North-west remained steady despite Covid-19. According to the NIA’s annual Jobs Map, 59,584 people are employed in the civil nuclear sector across the UK, a slight increase on 2019. The … [Read more...]

Marple based Arden Software, a computer-aided design (CAD) and packaging design specialist software company, have acquired American firm, Cimex. Massachusetts based Cimex developed the CimPACK software, CAD software also used in the sector, for print, packaging and die-making. Its software is … [Read more...]