Live event to address region’s engineering skills shortage Manufacturing employers and young people from across Leeds will come together at a live event this week to address the chronic skills shortage facing the manufacturing sector. Leeds Manufacturing Festival…
Airbus extends its training offer with new composite training Airbus Services has launched a new Structure Training offer focusing on composite materials, now available to customers worldwide. New generation aircraft featuring advanced materials require new skills for damage assessment,…
Who says engineering can’t be fun? Norco began 2019 with the opening of a brand-new training centre to offer hands-on training for all new apprentices working at the company, Mike Richardson hears about the exciting progress…
Innovations in training In a Q&A session, Composites in Manufacturing hears the views of iMET’s managing director, Jo Sainsbury on the range of apprenticeships and short training courses the company offers – all…
Editor's comment: Ignore training at your peril Is the UK falling short when it comes to composites training? Whether it’s a lack of specific courses or a fall-off in investment, the composites sector has more work to…
Norco unveils new composites training centre Norco says it has opened a new training centre in a purpose-built facility to give hands-on training for new apprentices to tackle the local skills shortage. Having won several long-term…
iMET opens doors to welcome composite technician apprentices iMET has opened its doors to welcome the first cohort of Composite Technician Apprentices at its new multi-million pound Advanced Training facility at Alconbury Weald. The new Composites Apprenticeship has…
The digital age of abrasives Mike Richardson attends the opening of Mirka’s new training centre to get hands-on with some of the company’s latest abrasives, surface preparation and dust extraction products available to the composites…
Mirka invests in training centre of the future Mirka UK is opening a new state‐of‐the‐art national training centre in Milton Keynes in September 2018. The investment is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to providing its customers with…
ARRK’s Lean training programme reaps improvements Members of ARRK’s Composite team in Nuneaton are celebrating having successfully gained their Level 2 Certificate in Business Improvement Technology. The seven members of staff undertook a 12-month government-backed training…
Train don’t blame It’s often hard to see the merits of joining up some of the over complicated dots in the UK’s composites manufacturing industry. Particularly when they concern the amount of government…
Training across the board Whether it’s a lack of specific courses, or a fall-off in UK investment, the composites sector has more work to do in training. Lou Reade reports. The UK is…
