News Items

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, March 04, 2010

Waviatech and easyJet sign 5 year contract

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

Relevant Papers:

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

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

Mitsubishi Supply chain contacts will be at the Farnborough Airshow this year. if you wish to visit any of these companies, please contact Tracy Plews who will be able to arrange 1-2-1 meetings for you. Please click here for the list of companies available.

Florida Great NorthWest are visiting Farnborough Airshow this year and have many companies that would like to take the opportunity to create alliances and discuss the opportunities in their region. If you would like to have a meeting set up please contact Jacqui Hills . To read the list of companies attending, please click here.

The Brazilian Consulate is visiting the Farnborough Airshow, if you wish to meet with any of the following companies, please contact Paul Smith, Aerospace Sector Lead for Brazil (UKTI). Click here for a list of the companies.

Torino Piemonte Aerospace, who are a member of the european Cluster Partnership will be exhibiting at Farnborough Airshow in Hall 1, Stand D16 within the stand of AIAD. they are keen to have B2B meetings with companies they have on the stand if you are interested in meeting with any of them please contact Tracy Plews so she can liaise with the companies to arrange mutually convenient meetings for you. To read their flyer, please click here.

Portuguese Trade and Investment Office
To book a 1:1 meeting with one of these companies please contact: Diana Bras, Portuguese Trade and Investment Office OR visit the Portuguese Pavilion at H4 E3. Tel: +44 (0) 207 201 6664 or email Diana Bras. For a list of the attending Portuguese companies please click here.

ADS Networking Event
ADS ASD and SJAC Networking event on Monday 19th July (1430 - 1530). Please click here for the fullyer flyer and itnerested companies should RSVP directly with ADS.

Book B2B meetings with Indian Companies at FI2010
The FAC have been asked to send you these opportunities to meet with Indian S.I.A.T.I. companies at FI2010. Please click here for the information relating to this offer

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

Click here to read the latest new

Bank of England - Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bank of England Agents Summary - December 2009

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