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What Katy Did Next - Marketing 07/01/2010
Katy Worton, a postgraduate in Occupational Psychology from the University of Sheffield, has joined DavyMarkham's marketing team.She will play an integral role in the continued development of the company's successful marketing programme.The heavy engineering concern was recognised recently in the Sheffield Business Awards for its work in promoting the city's manufacturing expertise and Kate will contribute her skills to this award-winning team. Full story Manufacturers urged to back skills initiative 03/01/2010 Manufacturers across South Yorkshire are being urged to give their backing to a new initiative to enthuse school children about a career in engineering and help them to gain the basic skills they need to train as apprentices.The Passport to Work programme is the brainchild of a number of leading local industrialists, led by Kevin Parkin and Vince Middleton, managing directors of Davy Markham and Newburgh Engineering.They have teamed up with Business & Education South Yorkshire, the Industrial Trust, the National Metals Technology Centre (NAMTEC) and Sheffield City Council with the aim of raising the standard of work experience for pupils and guaranteeing to industry that any youngster with the Passport will have the basic skills they need. Full story DavyMarkham Picks Up Three Top Business Awards 12/01/2010 Engineering heavyweight DavyMarkham scored a notable hat-trick in the 2009 Sheffield Business Awards, the Steel City's most prestigious business event.The company won the title Barclays Commercial Bank Outstanding Business Of The Year, while its managing director, Kevin Parkin, was named Rensburg Sheppards Business Person Of The Year.It also received the Creative Sheffield, Sheffield Champion Award for its work in promoting the city's manufacturing heritage and world-class products. Full story Apprentice Scheme Approved By Institution Of Mechanical Engineers 01/11/2009 The highly regarded DavyMarkham apprenticeship scheme has now been officially accredited by the country's leading professional engineering body, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).The scheme, which was successfully revived by the Sheffield heavy engineering firm two years ago, having been discontinued by previous management, has been approved under the institution's Engineering Technician Development Scheme and all DavyMarkham apprentices are now affiliate members of IMechE.Upon completion of their 3 or 4 year apprenticeships, they will be eligible to apply for Engineering Technician status and to use the letters EngTech MIMechE after their names. Full story DavyMarkham Participates In One-Day Coal Conference 01/10/2009 Kevin Parkin, MD of Sheffield heavy engineering company DavyMarkham, is pictured with the Rt Hon John Prescott MP at a recent one-day conference staged at the University of Sheffield and supported by the Coalfield Regeneration Trust, headlined Coal: The Social, Economic, Regeneration and Climate Change Opportunities.Involving a series of eminent guest speakers from the worlds of politics, business and academia, the event was hosted by the former Deputy Prime Minister, who also delivered the keynote address, and was introduced by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, the Rt Hon Ed Miliband, MP for Doncaster North. Full story £2.7m cutterheads for railroad tunnelling project in China 30/10/2009 Leading UK heavy engineering concern, DavyMarkham of Sheffield, is nearing completion of two 10.3m (40ft) diameter cutterheads, which will be fitted to the front ends of tunnel boring machines being built by the Robbins Company of Ohio, for a major railroad tunnel project in China.Each 226 tonne cutterhead will be despatched in modular components to the company's TBM assembly facility near Chendu, Sichuan Province, home of the giant panda.After the machines have been assembled and tested in the factory, they will be disassembled and sent to a remote location in Gansu Province, where the TBMs and cutterheads will be reassembled by local labour. Full story DavyMarkham Wins $20 Million Canadian Contract For Gold Mine Hoists 01/10/2009 Sheffield heavy engineering concern, DavyMarkham has been awarded a massive $20 million order for the supply of mining hoists and associated electrical drives and controls, by top mid-tier gold producer IAMGOLD Corporation of Toronto, Canada.The contract includes the largest double drum hoist supplied to North America in recent times, with a diameter of 21ft (6.4m), a drum width of 8ft (2.4m) and a payload capacity of 44,000lbs (20,000kg). Full story Austrian technical students gain work experience in Sheffield 15/10/2009 There has been something of a continental flavour about Sheffield heavy engineering firm DavyMarkham lately, with two young Austrian students and a German postgraduate all enjoying periods of work and language experience at the Prince of Wales Road works.Michael Berger and Michael Struber, 19 year olds from HTL Hallein in Salzburg, spent some time honing their engineering skills alongside DavyMarkham's home-grown apprentices.They are pictured with the company's Apprentice Training Supervisor, Peter Kerfoot, shortly before returning to Austria. Full story DavyMarkham Young Apprentices Achieve NVQ Qualifications 10/09/2009 The £250,000 investment in a new apprentice training programme, by Sheffield heavy engineering company DavyMarkham, is already bearing fruit, with the first of its young school leavers completing the initial phase of the scheme.Daniel Firth (18) and Chris Andrews (19), both of Rotherham, have completed NVQ Level 2 qualifications in Engineering Production, which incorporated practical Welding and Fabrication modules, as part of an Apprenticeship in Metals Processing, being run in association with strategic skills body MetSkill. Full story |
