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Doncasters Group Ltd. is a leading international engineering group that manufactures precision components and assemblies for the aerospace, industrial gas turbines, specialist automotive, fasteners and petrochemical markets. The group excels in working with alloys and metals that are difficult to shape and form.
Core manufacturing capabilities include superalloy production, precision casting (equiaxed, directionally solidified and single crystal); precision forging and ring rolling; a wide range of specialist fabrication, machining and finishing processes.
With extensive experience in the use of titanium, nickel/cobalt alloys, aluminium, metal matrix composites and all ferrous materials, major products include turbine airfoils, rings & casings, structural castings, compressor airfoils, combustion components, aerospace fabrications and exhaust assemblies.

Centres of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration are a leading technology transfer network linking businesses to world-class science, engineering and technology from universities in Wales. Each Centre is independently accredited by the Welsh Assembly Government based on their track record of working with industry, they all have people focused with interfacing with business to deliver solutions and understand their needs. Within performance engineering the network has capability in :

High performance materials and composites
Next generation fuels and engine design
Computational modeling and simulation
Design and rapid protyping casting and machining
Electronic vehicle sub-system testing facilities
Telematics, embedded sensors and instrumentation
Electromagnetic, environmental and non-destructive testing

SBAC is the UK's national trade association representing companies supplying civil air transport, aerospace defence, homeland security and space. SBAC encompasses the British Airports Group and the Industrial Space Committee. Together with its regional partners, SBAC represents over 2,600 companies, assisting them in developing new business globally, facilitating innovation and competitiveness and providing regulatory services in technical standards and accreditation.

With over 30 years' experience in the machining of precision engineering components, Acro represents one of Europe's leading suppliers to the engineering and technology sector. Acro offers specialist low volume prototype development as well as high volume manufacturing and is equipped with a broad range of modern CNC [Computer Numerically Controlled] machinery: -

· CNC lathes with live tooling and 24 hour unmanned production
· Swiss type sliding head automatics
· CNC milling
· Conventional turning/milling/finishing

Customer projects have included components for sports cars suspensions, bomb disposal robots, hospital beds, forecourt petrol pumps, the London Underground, equipment for off-shore oil exploration and production and components for the construction industry.

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There is a well-established aerospace industry in Wales, represented by The Aerospace Wales Forum. The Forum is a member of the Society of British Aerospace Companies whilst its own membership includes some of the biggest names in the industry. The Forum promotes excellence, collaboration and provides networking opportunities in Wales and beyond

Doncasters Group Ltd. is a leading international engineering group that manufactures precision components and assemblies for the aerospace, industrial gas turbines, specialist automotive, fasteners and petrochemical markets. The group excels in working with alloys and metals that are difficult to shape and form. Core manufacturing capabilities include superalloy production, precision casting (equiaxed, directionally solidified and single crystal); precision forging and ring rolling; a wide range of specialist fabrication, machining and finishing processes. With extensive experience in the use of titanium, nickel/cobalt alloys, aluminium, metal matrix composites and all ferrous materials, major products include turbine airfoils, rings & casings, structural castings, compressor airfoils, combustion components, aerospace fabrications and exhaust assemblies.

Centres of Excellence for Technology and Industrial Collaboration are a leading technology transfer network linking businesses to world-class science, engineering and technology from universities in Wales. Each Centre is independently accredited by the Welsh Assembly Government based on their track record of working with industry, they all have people focused with interfacing with business to deliver solutions and understand their needs. Within performance engineering the network has capability in : High performance materials and composites Next generation fuels and engine design Computational modeling and simulation Design and rapid protyping casting and machining Electronic vehicle sub-system testing facilities Telematics, embedded sensors and instrumentation Electromagnetic, environmental and non-destructive testing

SBAC is the UK's national trade association representing companies supplying civil air transport, aerospace defence, homeland security and space. SBAC encompasses the British Airports Group and the Industrial Space Committee. Together with its regional partners, SBAC represents over 2,600 companies, assisting them in developing new business globally, facilitating innovation and competitiveness and providing regulatory services in technical standards and accreditation.

Achieving supply chain improvement is critical to the continued competitiveness of the UK aerospace and defence industry. This key programme is overseen by SBAC's Enterprise Excellence Board and continues the work of the Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team SC21 aims to accelerate the competitiveness of the aerospace and defence industry. With international competition increasing, the participation of companies of all sizes throughout the UK supply chain is crucial to delivering real results from this modernisation programme.

Established in 1959, Engineering Capacity is recognised as a 'grass roots' publication about subcontractors. Buyers turn to Engineering Capacity when they need help to find specialist subcontract manufacturing services. Be the first to find out about contractors who are adding value and sustainable competitive advantage for their manufacturing clients in the UK.

With over 30 years' experience in the machining of precision engineering components, Acro represents one of Europe's leading suppliers to the engineering and technology sector. Acro offers specialist low volume prototype development as well as high volume manufacturing and is equipped with a broad range of modern CNC [Computer Numerically Controlled] machinery: - · CNC lathes with live tooling and 24 hour unmanned production · Swiss type sliding head automatics · CNC milling · Conventional turning/milling/finishing Customer projects have included components for sports cars suspensions, bomb disposal robots, hospital beds, forecourt petrol pumps, the London Underground, equipment for off-shore oil exploration and production and components for the construction industry.

Blum Novotest are a global company specialising in helping manufacturing companies save money whilst increasing accuracy. We have amongst our products a range of cutting tool and work piece measurement solutions for integration into your machine tools. By utilising Blum technology, setup and manufacturing times can be reduced and machines can be run unmanned saving you money and backup and support is only a phone call away with Blum’s qualified engineers on hand to support your business.

The MIA is the global trade association serving motorsport's high performance engineering, tuning and services industry, with over 300 corporate members transacting over £3 billion of motorsport related business worldwide.

The National Composites Network is a unique Knowledge Transfer Network jointly funded by government and industry that will embrace the entire UK Composites industry and its supply chain. NCN is a network group operating within the Materials KTN.The NCN is a Company Limited by Guarantee, with a Board drawn from organisations with prominent composites interests. NCN will call upon the expertise of a Strategy Group, representing the breadth of the composites community. The UK has an impressive global reputation for innovation and research in composite materials and recognised high skills and quality based manufacturing, which is heavily led by implementation of new technologies. Driven by improvements in business economics and the technical performance of materials, industry will inevitably seek further advances via the use of composites. The establishment of Regional Centres of Excellence (including the NDT Centre in South Wales) where companies can obtain hands-on support and expert advice has already begun. The intention is to grow this cluster of centres from existing UK capabilities and focus future infrastructure investment on capability gaps defined by industry.

Strategic Marketing is a leading business development consultancy with private and public sector clients ranging from small amibitious companies to multi-nationals and government development agencies