EoW May 2013

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40 years and still going strong

cold forming dies, medium range press tooling, rubber mould tooling, feed fingers and various component parts machining. It continues to invest in the latest machining techniques, including hard turning, CNC lathe and internal grinding machines, together with the very latest technology wire electro discharge machining centres. 2013 sees the addition of a specialist five axis-machining centre.

This year sees CTR Carbide Dies Ltd celebrating 40 years in business. Based in Birmingham, the manufacturing heartland of the UK, it is one of the largest specialised fastener tooling companies in the world and supplies to all sectors including general engineering, construction, automotive, aerospace, energy and defence industries to more than 50 countries. The CTR management team can between them boast 75 years technical, manufacturing and

commercial experience. The close working relationship with customers and “know how” enables them to offer added value tool design and development advice, resulting in cost savings by eliminating unnecessary process operations together with extended tool life. The tooling is used for the manufacture of all industrial standard and special fasteners including airframe rivets, construction anchor bolts, automotive wheel

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▲ ▲ CTR is celebrating 40 years in business

CTR is BS EN IS0 9001 and AS 9100 Rev C Accredited and a member of ADS (Advancing UK Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space Industries, globally) and MAA (Midlands Aerospace Alliance).

Nexans has established the ‘Nexans Foundation’, a common platform for all its corporate sponsorship activities, aimed at assisting and supporting Nexans’ active and long-term participation in solidarity initiatives across the world. The Nexans Foundation will focus on two areas of intervention, in line with the company’s corporate values: Supporting general interest projects of a social and humanitarian nature, by contributing to the fight against energy insecurity and poverty worldwide. The Nexans Foundation will achieve this by providing access to energy, enabling disadvantaged communities to access services that are essential for their human, social and economic development; cultural heritage through the development and restoration projects of the Preserving the world’s bolts, engine bolts, special formed gear assemblies and special alloy nuts. Tooling can be individual and also for complete machine kits. CTR has proven experience in low volume sub-contract machining in areas such as tooling for spring manufacturing, tube

CTR Carbide Dies Ltd – UK Website : www.ctr-uk.com

Foundation for the future – thanks to Nexans

Public the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. Current initiatives include: Electriciens sans frontières (Electricians without borders (ESF)) – This non-government organisation contributes to making access to energy a developmental lever for the most disadvantaged communities worldwide, in partnership with Nexans which is supplying low and medium voltage power cables covering 50 per cent of ESF’s needs. Palace of Versailles – Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Nexans agreed to sponsor cables that could be used to help with renovations of the site. Louvre-Lens Museum, Northern France – Nexans donated all the cables for the 28,000m 2 building premises and 22 hectares of land. Nexans – France Website : www.fondationnexans.com Establishment of

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