SECTOR FOCUS: MANUFACTURING
CADCAM software is minted for great success
Key exports: Paul Udenze
Learn from the experts at the export roadshow
Businesses seeking to exploit high-growth markets in Africa will be given specialist advice and guidance at a UK Trade & Investment roadshow being held in the West Midlands this month. The event, which will feature
short, focused presentations, will focus on opportunities in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, South and Southern Africa and Uganda. The event is being organised
jointly by the UKTI teams based at Birmingham and Black Country Chambers of Commerce, the roadshow will take place at Walsall Football Club on 4 February from 9am until 3.15pm. A case study will be given by
Paul Udenze, the Nigerian-born chief executive of Oldbury-based BritChem Products UK, which trades as Soligard GB, a surface coatings and solvents manufacturer and exporter. Two years after its formation in 2005, the company won the Black Country ACBF Award for the Best Business Start-UP and UKTI International Trade Award for Outstanding Export Achievement and last year it received the Exporter of the Year Award from Trade & Export Finance Ltd. Mr Udenze established BritChem
Products UK to export British products such as paints, lacquers and thinners to Nigeria. Andy Smith, UKTI overseas
business networks adviser, said that six of the world’s ten fastest growing economies since 2005 had been African with agriculture, manufacturing, construction and services being amongst growth sectors. “Brand Britain is held in high
regard and products from the UK are considered symbols of quality, tradition and style, so potential exporters should really take advantage of the opportunities before them – especially as this year the Sub Saharan African GDP is projected to grow on average by almost six per cent,” he added. Delegates attending the
Roadshow – which will highlight topics such as export finance, IP, and aid-funded business – will be able to book one-to-one meetings with market experts by logging on to
africanroadshow.eventbrite.co.uk
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The Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry has welcomed Forterra (formerly Hanson Building Products) as its latest member, in a bid to drive forward productivity and technology improvements in the building products industry. Forterra has become the first member of the MTC
from this sector and aims to support its ambition to develop new processes and introduce new technology. Forterra is a leading manufacturer of a diverse range of clay and concrete building products and is one of the largest brick makers in the UK, producing around 10 million bricks per week. The MTC aims to provide a competitive
M
ints using Delcam’s ArtCAM CADCAM software to produce their designs were winners in multiple categories at the 2016 ‘Coin of the
Year’ (COTY) Awards. The awards, which are organised by Krause
Publications and sponsored by World Coin News, will be presented to the winning mints during the World Money Fair to be held in Berlin from 5-7 February. A selection of the winning coins will be displayed on the ArtCAM stand at the Fair. The most prolific winner using ArtCAM was the
Austrian Mint, which was recognised in three categories following votes from an International Panel of judges.
‘We are delighted that so many of our longstanding customers have achieved such well-deserved success’
The Mint won in the ‘Best Bi-Metallic Coin’ category with a 25 euro silver and niobium coin highlighting the science of evolution, in the ‘Best Silver Coin’ category with its 20 Euro coin commemorating the fall of the Iron Curtain, and in the ‘Most Artistic Coin’ category with a gold 50-euro coin celebrating the Gustav Klimt painting, Judith II. One of ArtCAM’s earliest customers, the UK Royal
Mint, won the award for ‘Best Circulating Coin’. The two pound bi-metallic coin, which marked the centenary of the First World War, depicts Lord Kitchener on the reverse.
Coining it: The Austrian Mint’s award-winning designs New member for MTC
A warm welcome (L-R): James Jeffcott, process engineering manager,
Forterra, George Stewart and Clive Hickman
environment to bridge the gap between university- based research and the development of pioneering manufacturing solutions. MTC’s chief executive, Dr Clive Hickman, said that
the addition of Forterra as a member would boost the centre’s capabilities in the building products sector. “Forterra has invested extensively in modern
automated brickworks, making the whole process more efficient. Having made the capital investment, Forterra now wants to identify opportunities to deploy more innovative technology and make overall improvements to quality and productivity.”
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