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Please find below news items from our many members and Industry relevant press releases. If you would like to disseminate your news, please contact us.

Interface - FAC's Magazine

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Member News

Waviatech - Thursday, August 12, 2010

AerData acquires majority stake in Waviatech

To read more please click here

MEP - Tuesday, January 12, 2010

SC21 Success

MEP Ltd has become one of the first companies in the South East to achieve the Supply Chain in the 21^st Century (SC21) Bronze Award in recognition of its continued supply chain improvement efforts within the aerospace and defence industry
To read the full press release please click here

Drurys - Wednesday, August 04, 2010

HERTFORDHSHIRE FIRM RECEIVES NATIONAL INDUSTRY AWARD
Drurys Engineering, a Hertfordshire based company that manufactures high quality components for the aerospace, defence, oil and gas, and motorsport industries, has won a national award for supply chain excellence.

To read the full press release, please click here

Publications:

FAC Press Pack - click HERE

UKTI Aerospace International Strategy Document 2010 - click HERE

Aero Strategy Globalization Commentary - click HERE

Aero Strategy Civil Aerospace Commentary - click HERE

White Paper on Keeping control of your External IT Service Providers - click HERE

EEF have launched Back at the Crossroad: a Manifesto for Manufacturing - setting out how and why the next government should put manufacturing at the heart of a better balanced economy - click HERE to read

Please click HERE for the letter from DOW (a key producer of Trichloroethylene) Whilst Trichloroethylene is already avoided wherever possible it was a very widely used degreasing agent and may still be in some processes. If this is thought unavoidable then the user should be seeking an exemption under REACH for the process concerned. The attached letter from DOW explains. If you need to know more, please contact Charles Burt, MEnvSci, AIEMA, Managing Director of The Olive Consultancy. Tel 023 8011 1440 or Email: cburt@consultolive.com

Part of the CarbonOmics partnership

New European Aerospace Park and Cluster

The Southern Group Business Advisors (SGBA) are working in conjunction with Vaucluse Developpement, and actively promoting the investment in a new Aerospace Park, based alongside Avignon Airport. Ideally located to serve France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland the park will become the third largest Aerospace hub in France, after Toulouse and Paris. The region has the 2nd highest GDP per capita in France (after Paris), and France ranks 3rd worldwide in terms of hourly productivity (behind Norway and the US), well ahead of Great Britain and Germany. Source : BIT 2007

Active Clusters include Pole Pegase. The region has 75,000 employees in Aerospace working for 8 industry leading companies and SME's, all supported by Academia and 31 R&D test centres.

Companies wishing to develop European business that would like to hear more about the project, and how they can benefit from the opportunity and incentives, please contact Ian Thomas at SGBA. Try Ian Thomas or call 'Proactive' on 0870 787 7590.

Business Opportunities

Following the UKTI trade mission to Russia in March 2010, UAC has sent us a list of their Tier 2 and Tier 3 product requirements for the MS-21 programme. Please click here and here for information and list of MS-21 Tier 1 partners.

If people are interested in pursuing these opportunities with UAC, can you please, in the first instance, please contact me at neil.semple@ukti.gov.uk

At the Farnborough Airshow on 20 July, A|D|S signed a MOU on aerostructures co-operation with their Russia counterpart the Union of Aviation Industries (UAI). The MOU ceremony was attended by the UAC President, Alexey Fedorov, so this underlines the desire of the Russians to engage with the UK aerospace sector.

We also hope to organise an inward mission by UAC to visit the UK, with a provisional date of October 2010. Details of this mission, and other UKTI events, will be on www.ukti.gov.uk

SEEDA Funding for Space
We are pleased to announce that SEEDA has approved £1.5m of Collaborative R&D funding for this year in support of the aims of the International Space Innovation Centre at Harwell. The funding is aimed at supporting businesses operating in the south east of England. We are particularly keen that the funding should support both upstream (space technology) and downstream (data user) companies - in particular, companies that may be able to use space derived data in new ways or new sectors.

The first tranche of funding is available as a space related "overlay" to the Technology Strategy Board's current competition - "Collaboration Across Digital Industries" (http://www.innovateuk.org/content/competition/collaboration-across-digital-industries-mainstream.ashx).

Timescales are very short for this competition as the closing date is 19th August so please contact Colin Baldwin at SEEDA as soon as possible. Please click here and here for the main competition guidelines and an additional document regarding the space related funding.

If you have any opportunities you would like to advertise to our membership, please get in touch.

Industry News

SBRI - Tuesday, January 05, 2010

SBRI - Small Business Research Initiative

This is a process that enables government bodies to connect with technology businesses,
finding innovative solutions to specific public sector challenges and needs.

To read the brochure, please click here.

UBM - Thursday, March 18, 2010

Aviation Industry News

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Bank of England - Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bank of England Agents Summary - Summer 2010

Please find attached a web link to the August Agents' Summary for your information

To read the Summary please click here.

Library - Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New National Aerospace Library

This facility has now been launced and is based at IQ Farnborough. Please click here to find out more.

UKTI Information

Advanced Engineering Contracts

UKTI Advanced Engineering Business Planning 2010/11. Please discuss your ideas for international trade and investment activities with our teams in Embassies and Consulates now.

Context

As discussed at the pre-AdESAB meeting in September, there are changes to UKTI's business planning process this year. UKTI sector teams have, following consultation, produced the attached guidance sheet showing strategic priorities for international trade and investment for the UK advanced engineering the sector. If you are proposing to organise international activities for the advanced engineering sector in the next financial year that support these priorities and want to have involvement and support from our teams overseas, in the Embassies and Consulates, or the Advanced Engineering Sector national team, based in the UK, you should get engaged in this business planning process now.

If your ideas are not specific to any market, or group of markets, or you simply want to run then past us in the national sector team please contact Neil on +44 (0)141 228 3614 who leads on aerospace, Ian on +44 (0)141 228 3654 for automotive, construction equipment and mining or Janet on +44 (0)141 228 3617 - she leads on the rest of engineering including manufacturing technologies etc. Please copy us all in if you are emailing and are unclear or the idea is cross cutting.

New Specification Document