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DavyMarkham - News Archive
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An Express Service from Giant Forging Press 20/08/2008
A giant forging press is back making the wheels for France's world record breaking TGV trains and doing the job better than ever thanks to Sheffield-based DavyMarkham. Full story DavyMarkham Shop Stewards Work To Secure Firm's Future 09/08/2008 Amidst all the financial doom and gloom, at least one Sheffield engineering company, DavyMarkham, is upbeat about its future and enjoying the wholehearted support of its union representatives and 180-strong workforce.So much so, that senior members of its Joint Shop Stewards Committee, Chairman Sam Wragg, Deputy Andy Tuohy and Secretary Mick Jay, have declared that union members are keen to work closely with management and address the challenges the company faces in an increasingly global marketplace. Full story Moving Times For DavyMarkham's Fabrication Department 01/08/2008 Moving house or office can be stressful enough, so imagine how daunting it would be to relocate an entire steel fabrication workshop, complete with heavy presses, bending and welding machines, CNC profile cutters and heat treatment areas - especially when the largest equipment weighs around 200 tonnes, or the equivalent of sixteen London buses!. Full story Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire Visits DavyMarkham 27/06/2008 The highlight of the Sheffield social calendar is, without doubt, the Cutlers' Feast, which has been held every year since 1682.This year's Feast, hosted by the current Master Cutler, Gordon Bridge, was attended by 375 guests including nobility, dignitaries, leading local and national industrialists, and Freemen of the Cutlers' Company.The principal guest and speaker this year was the Rt Hon William Hague MP, who returned to Sheffield for his second Cutlers' Feast. Full story Father & Son Transform University Project Into Extra Revenue 01/06/2008 Normally, when college students approach family members regarding a possible business project for a university assignment, they expect a fairly straightforward task.But when University of Leeds student Stewart Parkin discussed the possibilities with father Kevin, MD of Sheffield heavy engineering concern DavyMarkham, the project turned into a full-blown system installation, complete with touch-screen HMI's (human machine interfaces) and text messaging facilities, which is set to save the company hundreds of thousands of pounds.Needless to say, this being Yorkshire, there was no fee involved!. Full story 320T Cutterhead For China's Biggest TBM Tunnelling Project 01/05/2008 Sheffield heavy engineering company DavyMarkham has fabricated and shipped a 320 tonne cutterhead for a 12.4m diameter tunnel boring machine (TBM), being built by The Robbins Company of Ohio, the world's foremost manufacturer of underground construction machinery.It has been despatched to the mountains of Sichuan Province, China, where it will be instrumental in one of the biggest TBM-driven tunnelling projects in Chinese history, for the new 4,800MW Jinping II hydropower station on the Yalong River.Once completed in 2010, this will be the largest power station in an ambitious project for owners Ertan Hydropower Development Company, which will transmit electricity to many eastern provinces and such cities as Shanghai and Beijing. Full story £6.5 Million Mine Hoist Order 14/04/2008 Davy Markham has secured an important £6.5 million (approx $13 million CAD) export order from leading Canadian mining and refining company, CVRD Inco Limited, the world's largest nickel producer.The contract is for a dual-purpose, double drum, 16' 6" diameter mine hoist, which will be used for skipping and personnel handling duties at the newly-reopened Totten #2 shaft, on the edge of the Sudbury Basin in Northern Ontario, the largest concentration of nickel-copper bearing minerals in the world.Nickel is in increasing global demand, as a key component in the production of stainless steel and rechargeable batteries for hybrid electrical vehicles such as the Toyota Prius, and CVRD Inco commands some 20% of global sales. Full story Former Lathe Turner, John Watson, Is Appointed Production Director 10/01/2008 Sheffield heavy engineering concern, Davy Markham, which markets machinery and equipment across the world, has appointed John Watson as its new Production Director, in which capacity he will manage the firm's programme of continuous manufacturing improvement and assist in implementing strategies for increased productivity.Having joined the company as a lathe turner in 1988, John was transferred temporarily from the shop floor just three years later, in order to gain experience of non-production processes, and never returned to his original job, subsequently rising through the management ranks and in the process gaining an Institute of Management degree. Full story Size really does matter. If it's big and ugly.... 08/01/2008 If it's big and ugly, then it's right up DavyMarkham's street. Full story |
