According to the DfE, the success of that trial – aimed at boosting the teaching of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and design and technology – has led to another £500,000 funding injection. This will allow 60 teaching schools to buy 3D printers and train teachers to use them effectively – a key development from last year’s trial in which pilot schools reported that early work with the printers was often limited to demonstrations and printing of small files such as 3D shapes. The funding boost is the latest stage in the government’s plan to improve standards in hi-tech subjects. Announcing the new 3D printing fund, Gove said: “3D printers are revolutionising manufacturing and it is vital that we start teaching the theory and practice in our schools. Teaching schools will be able to develop and spread effective methods to do this. “Combined with our introduction of a computer science curriculum and teacher training, this will help our schools give pupils valuable skills.” The new design and technology curriculum, backed by Sir James Dyson, specifically mentions 3D printers and will see pupils taught about advanced skills, including robotics, so that more are prepared for jobs in the engineering...

The administrators were called in to the haulage and shipping business, whose services include the transport of large paper reels to many of the UK’s leading national and regional news groups, after the directors established that it was suffering from “acute cash flow pressures”. FRP Advisory is now marketing the business, which employs 250 staff throughout the UK, while working with customers and suppliers to assess the viability of the group and several of its subsidiaries and to try to ensure the companies continue trading while a buyer is sought. However, the joint administrators warned that it was “possible that during the administration process there will be redundancies within the Group” adding that there could be further announcements on this front in due course. Rowley, a senior partner at FRP, said: “We are highly focused on working with the Group’s customers and suppliers and in engaging with interested parties. In line with economic issues facing many businesses, Charles Gee has faced challenging trading conditions for a number of years and despite the support of its loyal customer base, recent cash flow problems have prompted the need to seek the protection of administration.” Charles Gee Group has operations in Tilbury, Felixstowe, Kings Lynn, Birkenhead, Didcot, Chatham, Aylesford, Harmondsworth, London, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Clevedon and Bridgewater. It supplies large UK and other European industrial manufacturers and support services firms....

The administrators were called in to the haulage and shipping business, whose services include the transport of large paper reels to many of the UK’s leading national and regional news groups, after the directors established that it was suffering from “acute cash flow pressures”. FRP Advisory is now marketing the business, which employs 250 staff throughout the UK, while working with customers and suppliers to assess the viability of the group and several of its subsidiaries and to try to ensure the companies continue trading while a buyer is sought. However, the joint administrators warned that it was “possible that during the administration process there will be redundancies within the Group” adding that there could be further announcements on this front in due course. Rowley, a senior partner at FRP, said: “We are highly focused on working with the Group’s customers and suppliers and in engaging with interested parties. In line with economic issues facing many businesses, Charles Gee has faced challenging trading conditions for a number of years and despite the support of its loyal customer base, recent cash flow problems have prompted the need to seek the protection of administration.” Charles Gee Group has operations in Tilbury, Felixstowe, Kings Lynn, Birkenhead, Didcot, Chatham, Aylesford, Harmondsworth, London, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Clevedon and Bridgewater. It supplies large UK and other European industrial manufacturers and support services firms....

The administrators were called in to the haulage and shipping business, whose services include the transport of large paper reels to many of the UK’s leading national and regional news groups, after the directors established that it was suffering from “acute cash flow pressures”. FRP Advisory is now marketing the business, which employs 250 staff throughout the UK, while working with customers and suppliers to assess the viability of the group and several of its subsidiaries and to try to ensure the companies continue trading while a buyer is sought. However, the joint administrators warned that it was “possible that during the administration process there will be redundancies within the Group” adding that there could be further announcements on this front in due course. Rowley, a senior partner at FRP, said: “We are highly focused on working with the Group’s customers and suppliers and in engaging with interested parties. In line with economic issues facing many businesses, Charles Gee has faced challenging trading conditions for a number of years and despite the support of its loyal customer base, recent cash flow problems have prompted the need to seek the protection of administration.” Charles Gee Group has operations in Tilbury, Felixstowe, Kings Lynn, Birkenhead, Didcot, Chatham, Aylesford, Harmondsworth, London, Kingston-Upon-Hull, Clevedon and Bridgewater. It supplies large UK and other European industrial manufacturers and support services firms....

The Cartonwrap is designed to manufacturer variable-sized cartons dynamically from a reel of corrugated cardboard, fill them with the relevant goods and seal and label them for shipping; it is aimed at the e-commerce fulfilment market. Because the machine uses wrapping technology to construct each carton around the relevant product, it minimises the size of the carton, cuts out the use of padding materials to fill the empty space in a standard carton and negates the transport of empty space. A size detector in the product inlet registers the size of each product and sends that data to the box forming section to define the carton size; multiple products can be placed in the same box. The automated box forming section features a dynamic creasing and cutting system, a transversal cutting blade and hotmelt glue guns that automatically apply glue to the blank. The products meet the semi-formed cartons in the box filling section of the machine, where product alignment and carton filling operations are performed before the upper flaps on the box are closed and the carton is finished. It is possible to add additional documents, such as marketing materials, invoices, return instructions, through optional feeders in the machine outlet, prior to the carton closing and labelling. The Cartonwrap has an average running speed of 10 boxes per minute. It takes 800mm or 1,200mm wide reels, with other widths available on request, and can form the following box sizes: 240x150x30mm up to 450x350x80mm or 350x350x150mm from an 800mm reel; 300x150x30mm or 240x150x200mm up to 600x350x200mm from a 1,200mm reel. According to CMC the launch event was attended by more than 150 customers from 50 countries around the world. The machine will be available for demonstrations in CMC’s factory until the end of November 2013. CMC first announced the Cartonwrap at Post Expo in Brussels in September 2012, where it showed videos, samples and brochures, after finalising its patent on the equipment; the recent event at the company’s factory was the first time the Cartonwrap has been shown ‘live’....