The significant impact that the COVID-19 coronavirus is having on all our lives is unprecedented. In view of this, the TRMG office is now closed and all staff are currently furloughed during this period of disruption. This means that ISMR’s May, June and July/August issues will not be published.

Given the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus, the Manufacturing Technologies Association (MTA) has decided that, to minimise the risks to visitors and exhibitors and to provide the best platform for exhibitors and visitors, the MACH exhibition will now take place from 25-28 January 2021.

Prima Power Laserdyne has announced the relocation and expansion of its manufacturing and operations centre in the U.S. Over February, Prima Power Laserdyne moved from its location in Champlin, Minnesota, to a new facility in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

With World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development on 4 March 2020, Airbus highlighted the contributions of engineers across the company towards a more sustainable aviation industry.

Piper Aircraft Inc. has installed a high pressure Flexform™ press from Quintus Technologies at its manufacturing facility in Vero Beach, Fla (USA).

Messe Düsseldorf GmbH has postponed the international trade fairs for the wire, cable, tube and pipe industries – ‘wire and Tube Düsseldorf’ – to 7-11 December 2020.

The IMF is making available about US$ 50 billion through its rapid-disbursing emergency financing facilities for low income and emerging market countries that could potentially seek support following the Coronavirus outbreak.

The show organiser, Mack Brooks Exhibitions, has now announced the expansion of exhibition space for EuroBLECH 2020 with the addition of a ninth hall for the first time in its history.

Almost half of workers in the UK’s manufacturing industry have a hidden health issue that they have never disclosed to their employers, with younger employees the most likely to withhold information from their bosses.