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KWE exhibited at 2024 Searchlight SME Showcase in Salisbury

KWE were in Salisbury this week at Porton Science Park, for the 2024 Searchlight SME Showcase. Tony and Adrian had a stand there on Thursday, 11th July, in our first time exhibiting at the show.
As a platform for promoting technology transfer and innovation, the Dstl Searchlight SME event provides a great opportunity for ‘end-users’ including scientists, technologists, engineers, project managers, Head of Departments and all those involved in the assessment and acquisition of science and technology products and services to network with industry, other Government Departments as well as the chance to meet new suppliers from non-traditional Defence sectors.

KW Engineering attended the Careers and Apprenticeships Show hosted at the BIC.

With a strong focus on empowering the next generation in to engineering, KW Engineering attended the CAS 24 show at the Bournemouth International Centre. It was great to meet so many young enthusiastic people and discuss the many possible careers involved in engineering.

KW Engineering supports the STEM village at the Bournemouth Air Festival

The Stem (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) Village, is a new initiative by the air festival to inspire and support the budding engineers of the future. We took along some of our recently qualified apprentices who have gone on to secure permanent jobs with KW Engineering to inspire those considering a career in engineering. With a strong focus on aerospace engineering our CEO Keith Ward was also in attendance and we had a visit from the tutor for the Red Arrows pilots.

Another Mazak machine at KWE

Our New Yamazaki Mazak QTE-200 SG is fully commissioned and ready for production, adding to our existing fleet of Mazak machines.
Pictured is our newest trainee Oliver being trained by Adam.

Our EMCO fleet has grown

Introducing our new MAXXTURN 25, complementing our existing fleet of EMCO machines. Its highly dynamical drive systems provide more productivity and efficiency, plus improve precision and rigidity for complex turned and milled components. We’ll be using this new machinery for our aerospace, defence, scientific, defence and industrial clients who rely on us for turning requirements.

DEMC (Dorset Engineering and Manufacturing Cluster)and KW Engineering

As part of the DEMC it provides both great opportunities for networking and to share capabilities with other members. It also allows us to keep up with the latest developments in the engineering field and share best practices and excellence with other engineering firms in Dorset providing a collaborative approach to promoting engineering in Dorset across the UK. Some of the events KW Engineering have been a part of are the Industrial Groups Careers in Engineering hosted by Curtiss-Wright, Cluster meetings with other South of England Clusters such as the Devon and Dorset cluster meet hosted by WEAF (West of England Aerospace) and Norco Composites.