Apprentice of the Year Finalist

Apprentice of the Year Finalist

Recently our Digital Marketing Apprentice was nominated as Apprentice of the Year through the East Midlands Chamber Enterprising Women Awards. Today, we are delighted to announce that Charlotte is a finalist in her category with the overall winner to be announced on...

The Engineering Skills Gap

According to Government Europa it is currently estimated that within the next few years 186,000 engineering jobs need to be filled.   With few engineers available to fill these roles where do we turn to and how do we manage this? Many children are not introduced to...

20% OFF VOUCHER

20% Off Ballscrew Repairs.  As many businesses have planned maintenance coming up along with summer shutdowns then you may find that you need a ballscrew repaired and this summer from July 2019 until the 15th of August 2019 we are running a summer sale by offering 20%...

Where have all the ballscrews gone?

Anyone who builds, repairs or refurbishes machine tools will know that ballscrew lead times are getting longer and longer.  Most people are visibly shocked when they hear that a new ground ballscrew which before Christmas took around 6-8 weeks to manufacture is now...

NOT ALL BALLSCREW REPAIRS ARE EQUAL

WHAT YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF BEFORE SENDING YOUR BALLSCREW FOR REPAIR Refurbishing a ballscrew is a sensible and cost effective option for many maintenance and machine tool re-builders but how do you know you are using a ballscrew repair company with the necessary...

We’ve had our photos taken!

To mark the appointment of Anne Ford as MD and Mehdi Sabet as Technical R&D Director we have had our photos taken – not sure about them but would highly recommend the photographer Lesley Bee from Hinckley.  Let me know what you...
Summer Shutdown plays havoc with productivity

Summer Shutdown plays havoc with productivity

Latest figures indicate that the UK still has an issue with productivity. The gap between the UK and the G7 average is widening.  Its a long term problem which seems to be getting worse with subsequent governments having failed to close the gap.  PGM Reball has a...
Why should we buy British?

Why should we buy British?

Time after time I get shocked at the prices we have to pay in the UK compared to prices further afield.   In our Office we have started to refer to this phenomenon as ‘Rip off Britain’ but the problem is that it’s really hurting our manufacturing industry....