Happy Birthday Unit 4
It is exactly one year since staff first started working at out Export Hub in Paxton Hill. A small team crossed the threshold and immediately started production from eight machines, whilst also putting in place the many systems and processes necessary to get the unit working at full capacity. Now a year on, the Export […]
Three Lucent Winners
Lucy Cavendish College staff and students have expressed their gratitude to Cambridge Precision Ltd for supporting the LucEnt Challenge. The LucEnt Challenge invites Lucy Cavendish College students to combine their knowledge, skills and experience in a multi-disciplinary team to identify an enterprising solution to a problem relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The […]
Presentation Day at the Lucent Challenge
Cambridge Precision Ltd sponsors the Lucy Cavendish ‘Lucent Challenge’. The challenge takes the format of an intensive ‘mentoring’ weekend, helping teams of students develop project concepts into convincing pitches. Following the 2023 opening event on Friday night, eleven teams of students worked with commercial and academic mentors over the weekend. Today the hard work is […]
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. IWD has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to […]
Changing the face of engineering
Its not that long ago that engineering environments were imagined as dark and greasy shop floors, with antiquated machinery and little scope for creativity and innovation. At CPL the team have made a concerted effort to create a contemporary environment where quality products can be imagined, developed and then manufactured efficiently. The new Export hub […]
CPL ISO 27001 accreditation renewed
Last week Cambridge Precision Ltd were pleased to welcome Mick from the British Assessment Bureau who conducted a three-day audit of our information security systems he audited the business against the ISO 27001 standard. This Information Security Management standard details the requirements for businesses to securely manage information assets and data to an internationally recognised […]
Upgrading the manufacturing hub
Over recent months, there have been a number of layout changes and machine moves at CPL, aiming to create a more ergonomic environment. In Units 1 and 2, the changes have been pretty significant, creating an environmentally controlled area for some products that have particular finishing needs in Unit 2, a cobot production area in […]
An apprenticeship in Engineering Innovation
Cambridge Precision Ltd is recognised internationally a leader in engineering innovation and a partner to those who are changing the way in which we live. Our Cambridgeshire sites, have for many years partnered tech and bio-tech innovators in our region, and increasingly we support national and international innovation. Our business is high quality precision engineering […]
Josh settling into the Export hub
Josh Wright joined the team working at Paxton Hill in November of last year and has quickly settled in and now making a very valuable contribution. Having left college after studying Level 3 Mechanical Engineering, he had been using his practical skills as a wood-worker, building garden furniture. Although he enjoyed that work, he was […]
Make UK Membership
Cambridge Precision Ltd has joined Make UK, keen to contribute to raising the profile and standards of British Manufacturing. We are particularly looking forward to working with the Make UK team on a range of apprenticeship programmes as we intend this year to keep expanding the team and bring on board new skills and enthusiasm. […]
