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13 Dec 2006
Long serving employees of Nottingham based Caunton Engineering were rewarded for their hard work and dedication over the years at a company awards celebration on Saturday 9 December.

Eleven members of staff were recognised, including software developer Richard Simm and business unit manager Allan Younger, who have each worked for Caunton Engineering for 30 years. They were congratulated by the ...

04 Dec 2006
Caunton Engineering was one of the national companies represented at the Nottingham University School of Civil Engineering Careers Fair being held at the Telford Orangery, on the lookout for what Human Resources Manager Jacquie Swinn describes as ‘gold dust’.

She said: "Trying to find and retain good young engineers gets harder every year. There are just not enough of them coming through the u...

04 Dec 2006
Caunton recently welcomed a delegation of five young engineers from major consulting engineer WSP to their works. Their objective was to understand better how a steelwork fabricator operates, in order to help them with their own steelwork designs. One subject they particularly wanted to study was the particular intricacy associated with heavy welding within the overall fabrication process. The sol...

27 Nov 2006
South Yorkshire was once one of the main coal mining regions of the UK. The sector em-ployed thousands of people and provided the fuel for most of the other major local indus-tries such as steel, textiles and heavy engineering.

Today, the majority of the mines have been decommissioned leaving behind large tracts of land ready for redevelopment. One of the largest of these brownfield sites is lo...

16 Nov 2006
Local school leavers are helping ensure that vital engineering skills are being assured for the future by taking advantage of apprenticeship opportunities created by local company Caunton Engineering and Aldercar Community Language College.

A close relationship between the Aldercar school - a local Vocational Specialist School - and Caunton, which is one of the UK’s leading constructional stee...

13 Oct 2006
Caunton have been awarded a steelwork order within the Oldham PFI schools contract won by Kier Group. Construction of the new schools, to replace the existing Failsworth and The Radclyffe secondary schools, will be carried out by Kier Build and Kier North West under a £51m construction contract.

The Kier project team comprises PFI specialist Kier Project Investment and facilities management sub...

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