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Group Rhodes accompany Prime Minister on Indian Trade Mission (21 Feb 2013) Group Rhodes Managing Director, Mark Ridgway OBE, DL is taking part in a trade delegation to India which is being led by Prime Minister David Cameron. The trade mission aims to show the “best of British” and generate new orders for firms like Group Rhodes, which is one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of special purpose machinery for advanced applications in metalforming, heavy ceramics, composites, environmental and deep-sea oil and gas sectors Trade and... Rhodes order signifies new jobs and a cleaner environment! (29 Jan 2013) Award winning engineering firm, Group Rhodes has won a significant order to install and commission a First of Class (FOC) Autoclave and loading equipment at a new purpose built waste management facility that is being constructed for Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (WMDC). Group Rhodes was chosen as an engineering partner due to its ability to demonstrate success in new product development and technology. The Company was originally awarded an order in 2009... Group Rhodes & Leeds Metropolitan University are Successful at World Skills Competition (07 Jan 2013) A combined team of young engineers from Group Rhodes Limited and Leeds Metropolitan University won Silver in the Industrial Control section of the UK World Skills Competition, based at the NEC in Birmingham, 15-17 November 2012. The team demonstrated the advantages of industry / university collaboration to produce a control for a fluid flow system, a task that was only bettered by an all university team from Napier University, Edinburgh, School of Electrical and Electronic... Wakefield Engineering Company wins Double! (21 May 2012) Wakefield Engineering Company, Joseph Rhodes Limited (part of Group Rhodes) has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade Category in recognition of outstanding achievements in overseas markets. During the MACH 2012 exhibition, the Company also won the MWP Advanced Engineering Award 2012 for Best Metalforming and Fabrication Equipment for its range of Superplastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding (SPF/DB) machinery. The need to improve... Adam Kelsey Wins “Young Engineer of the Year 2012” (08 May 2012) West Yorkshire engineering firm, Group Rhodes celebrates yet another award, as design engineer Adam Kelsey wins the MTA Manufacturing Industry Award for the “Young Engineer of the Year 2012”. Adam received the award after demonstrating outstanding commitment, achievement and innovation in engineering. At only 23 years old, Adam Kelsey has this year taken the role of Lead Design Engineer and Project Manager for the production of a 1200 tonne Superplastic Forming/ Diffusion... Beauford Engineers achieves Standard ISO 3834-2 and exhibits at the Offshore Europe 2011 (22 Aug 2011) Beauford Engineers is pleased to announce that the Company has passed the audit and is awaiting final accreditation to ISO 3834-2; Quality requirements for fusion welding of metallic materials - Part 2: Comprehensive quality requirements. Prepared such that it is independent of the type of welded construction to be manufactured, ISO 3834-2 defines quality requirements for welding both in workshops and on site, and as such it provides guidance for describing the Company’s... Group Rhodes Managing Director Awarded Honour (28 Jul 2011) Engineering firm Group Rhodes is celebrating a double this month. Not only has the firm acquired another business, but managing director Mark Ridgway has been honoured by the queen. Mr Ridgway was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his services to industry. Mr Ridgway, who won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise last year, and is the Chairman of the Wakefield Local Enterprise Partnership said: “It is humbling to receive it and a massive surprise.... GROUP RHODES STRENGTHENS WAKEFIELD’S ENGINEERING BASE (11 Jul 2011) Group Rhodes is pleased to announce the acquisition of Slater and Crabtree Limited (S&C) on 6th June 2011. The two Companies have enjoyed an intertwined history with S&C focussing its early business on the manufacture of tooling for Rhodes presses. S&C was based in an adjacent building to Group Rhodes in Belle Vue, Wakefield before moving one mile to its current location on Thornes Lane in the 1960’s. Throughout this period Group Rhodes retained a... New Developments Boost Group Rhodes Customer Service (24 Dec 2010) Group Rhodes has implemented a number of developments to improve customer service. Along with two new service engineers, Mr Graham Boffey has also joined the Company, as the Spares & Service Manager of the group’s Metalforming division. Surpassing the department’s customer satisfaction targets within his first six months, Graham has instigated a number of procedures, including customer forward ordering, pre-planned maintenance contracts and consignment stock, all... AWARD WINNING GROUP RHODES ‘IMPRESSES’ AT MACH 2010 (15 Jul 2010) Along with valued and potential new customers, award winning Group Rhodes attracted a plethora of VIP’s including HRH Duke of York and Mark Prisk, small business minister when the manufacturer exhibited at the recent MACH Show (Birmingham NEC, June 2010) one of the UK\'s premier manufacturing technologies events. During the show, Group Rhodes managing director, Mark Ridgway (who is Vice President of the Manufacturing Technologies Association) also met with Business Secretary,... Group Rhodes to exhibit new DS2 Mechanical Press at MACH 2010, Hall 4, Stand 4630 (19 May 2010) Group Rhodes is to display its new range of Mechanical Presses at the MACH 2010 exhibition. The Rhodes DS2-160, a straight sided, double cranked, 160 tonne mechanical press has been completely revamped to improve productive output and efficiency. The press, which boasts the new generation of Rhodes control systems, is designed specifically with two-point suspension to provide a larger working bed area to cater for specialist tooling. Furthermore, the two-point suspension ensures even... Innovative Company Flying High after winning Queen's Award for Enterprise (20 Apr 2010) Wakefield based Joseph Rhodes Limited (part of Group Rhodes) has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category in recognition of its continuous development of Super Plastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding Presses (SPF/DB). These machines are specifically designed for the high temperature forming of titanium and aluminium alloys, primarily used in the aerospace and automotive industry. Through a series of innovations Joseph Rhodes has become a world leader in... Beauford Engineers receive orders close to £1.5 million resulting from the new UK CVF Royal Navy Ai (11 Aug 2009) Britain’s new generation of aircraft carriers, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are expected to enter service in 2016 and 2018. Three times larger than the 20,000t UK Invincible class carriers, the two new vessels will each carry 1200-plus personnel, 36 F-35B Joint Strike Fighters and four EH-101 Merlin helicopters. By utilizing two 70-ton lifts the carriers will be able to deploy 24 planes into the air in 15 minutes. Following the successful completion of... Local Business Man Discusses Global Expansion with the Prime Minister (23 Jul 2009) As part of a UKTI initiative, the Prime Minister welcomed over 100 UK exporting firms to 10 Downing Street to recognise their business success in overseas markets and their contribution to the UK economy. One of the invitees was Mark Ridgway, Managing Director of Wakefield manufacturing Company Group Rhodes. Mark was able to discuss the Company’s successes and concerns, and suggest ideas for how the Government could further help British companies export. A member of the... ‘STUCK ON YOU’ Japanese based, ALTECO CHEMICAL PTE LTD, one of the foremost cyanoacrylate adhesive (commonly known as Super Glue) manufacturers in the world, has purchased an advanced backward extrusion press from Wakefield Company, Joseph Rhodes Limited. The award winning Rhodes KJX-25 Horizontal Impact Extrusion press will be commissioned into a new production line to extrude aluminium bodies for the production of super glue tubes. ALTECO is a... Repeat Refurbishment Order For Joseph Rhodes (12 Jan 2009) Repeat Refurbishment Order For Joseph Rhodes Joseph Rhodes Limited, one of Europe’s leading Manufacturers of Metalforming Machinery has again demonstrated an unrivalled ability to undertake cost effective refurbishments of all makes and sizes. Following the successful installations of a number of Rhodes hydraulic and mechanical presses, The Metal Drum Company has again shown their confidence in Joseph Rhodes by placing an additional order to refurbish their RH160... Group Rhodes Sell Two Award Winning KJX Horizontal Impact Extrusion Presses (10 Jun 2008) Group Rhodes Sell Two Award Winning KJX Horizontal Impact Extrusion Presses Group Rhodes has recently supplied two KJX Horizontal Impact Extrusion Presses to Alucon PCL. The presses have been installed in a new manufacturing site to extrude aluminium bodies for the production of marker pens. Based in Thailand, Alucon is renowned as the largest producer in Asia of aluminium impact extruded packaging materials, with an annual capacity of 400 million components produced... Rhodes Wins International Machine Tool Award (09 Jun 2008) At a time of unrest in the financial markets, as our major banks fight the fallout from the “credit crunch” we are pleased to be able to report a major success for UK manufacturing in general and a Wakefield company in particular. On Tuesday 22nd April, 2008 the NEC hosted the MWP International Machine Tool Awards 2008 as part of the MACH Machine Tool show. International machine tool companies from countries as far afield as Japan, Germany, Switzerland and... Rhodes Interform Scoop £1m order (12 Jun 2007) Rhodes Interform Scoop £1m Order Rhodes Interform recently received an order from a major aerospace manufacturer for a 10,600 Tonne Flexible Die Press. The press will be designed and manufactured at the Wakefield site, and will be used to produce Aircraft Nacelles for Aircraft Engines. Purchased to keep pace with rising demand, the Customer is one of the leading players in the international nacelle market. It has a workforce of 3,500 employees and a presence in the... A perfect fit; I\'ll take two please! (15 May 2007) A Perfect Fit; I’ll Take Two Please! Ibstock Brick Limited, the UK’s leading manufacturer of high quality clay facing bricks, has recently purchased two Craven Fawcett Box feeders. Impressed with the design and performance of the machinery, the Box Feeders will be installed at the Ibstock South Holmwood factory, as a cost effective and efficient method of increasing production. Purpose built to suit Ibstock Bricks exact requirements; one Box Feeder will use a... New Appointment - Alan Cheetham (01 Feb 2007) New Appoinment - Alan Cheetham Rhodes Technical Solutions employ specialist consultant Alan Cheetham to spearhead the Company into new markets. Professional engineer, Alan Cheetham, has over 30 years technical knowlege and experience working with some of the largest Blue Chip Companies in the world. Corus, Rolls Royce and BAE to name a few. The Press that thinks it\'s Mechanical (02 Oct 2006) The Press that thinks its mechanical! Joseph Rhodes worked closely with Chasestead Limited to design and build an 800 Tonne Adaptive Motion Hydraulic Press, which precisely mimics the pressing motion profile of conventional mechanical presses. The user friendly CNC system offers its user, for the first time, a press slide motion profile equivalent to either the sinusoidal curve of a simple crank/slider mechanism or modified harmonic of a link motion press. Application of... Winning Together (13 Sep 2006) Winning Together Ibstock Brick Limited has awarded its prestigious ‘Preferred Supplier Status’ to Craven Fawcett for its range of Clayworking Products and Service Engineering Support. Ibstock Brick is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of high quality clay facing bricks, offering an unrivalled choice of almost 400 products from both fully automated factories through to traditional hand-made and clamp fired sites. Commenting on the award,... VICTORY FOR BEN! Group Rhodes apprentice Ben Jennings won first prize at the NC Graphics MACH 1 Racing Car Challenge. The event was organised by NC Graphics who specialise in 3D Advanced CAM Solutions for the Engineering industry. The entrants designed their own cars from scratch and machined them, using NC Graphics DEPOCAM software. Taking part in the competition final, held during the MACH 2006 Show at the NEC, were Joseph Rhodes Limited, Datron Technology... Success at MACH 2006 (17 May 2006) Success at MACH 2006 Group Rhodes was awarded first prize at the Metalworking Production Awards 2006 in the category of Best Manufacturing System. Working in partnership with a customer, Joseph Rhodes developed and built a new manufacturing system for producing quick-fastening captive screws used predominantly within the automotive sector. Traditionally these fasteners were produced from two separately pressed pieces, machined and then welded together. This involved a... Rhodes Interform scoops deal (04 May 2006) Rhodes Interform scoops Chinese CATIC deal Rhodes Interform Limited, one of Europes leading manufacturers of special purpose metalforming machinery, has beaten off stiff international competition to win an order from CATIC (China National Aero-Technology International Supply Corporation) for a 250 tonne Hot Forming Press. CATIC has purchased the Hot Forming Press to cater for increased demand, and will use the press to manufacture titanium helicopter fuselage components. The... Ecology Update... At Group Rhodes we are fully aware of our environmental responsibilities and over the last six months we have spent more than 20,000 on environmental projects. Peter Ward, responsible for monitoring the company's environmental performance says: Recent projects have dramatically improved our working environment and benefited our manufacturing operations. Initiatives range from improvements in cutting fluids to the creation of a public access to a... Rhodes Beat International Competition The leading UK press manufacturer, Joseph Rhodes Limited, has recently supplied three KJX Horizontal Impact Extrusion Presses to Alucon PCL. The order consists of two KJX 50 (160 tonne) presses and a KJX 25 (60 tonne press). Joseph Rhodes are one of only a few press manufacturers in the world capable of producing Impact Extrusion Presses. As Alucons technical plant manager, Mr Ian Neighbour, explained, Having already purchased a number... Royal Visit.. His Royal Highness The Duke Of Kent, KG recently visited Group Rhodes (in Wakefield). The event also coincided with the Company's 180th Anniversary. The visit of the Prince to Group Rhodes celebrates 180 years of design and manufacture of innovative machinery. The Group is one of Europe's largest Original Equipment Manufacturers in its field, supplying an extensive range of machinery for Metalforming, Material Handling, Clay Preparation, Concrete... Hot off the Press! Rhodes Interform Limited, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of special purpose metalforming machinery, beat stiff international competition to win an order from CATIC (China National Aero-Technology International Supply Corporation) for a 250 tonne Hot Forming Press. Based in Beijing, China, CATIC is a state-owned conglomerate specialising in aviation, operating 7 specialised companies and 10 regional subsidiaries in China and an additional 56... |
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