£40,000 project aims to tackle shortage of engineering skills in classrooms of Boston

A £40,000 project to tackle the shortage of engineering skills in the classroom has been launched by Boston Borough Council. The authority has teamed up with national organisation Primary Engineer to try and encourage youngsters to make a career in the industry more attractive to them from an early age.

The launch follows on from a successful fluid power challenge trial day held with secondary school staff, where they had to design and build a device which used pneumatics or hydraulics to rotate, grab and lift overseen by engineers from Western Power, Parkinson Harness Technology and MetsaWood Ltd

Flowtech Fluidpower PLC (LON:FLO) are a specialist fluid power Group, they provide ‘total fluid power solutions’, delivering technical products, design, manufacturing services, maintenance and support to distributors, equipment manufacturers and industrial users across the UK and overseas.

Click to view all articles for the EPIC: FLO
Or click to view the full company profile:

Flowtech Fluidpower appoints James Brooke and Ailsa Webb as Non-Executive Directors

8th March 2022

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) has announced the appointments of James Brooke and Ailsa Webb as Non-Executive Directors of the Group with immediate effect. James has had successful City roles in equity and private equity fund management.

Flowtech Fluidpower: Strong revenue recovery underpins confidence FY21 outlook

8th September 2021

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) interim results to 30th June are in line with the comprehensive trading update (8th August) showing a good recovery in underlying demand from pandemic hit H1 ‘20. Revenue in the first half was down

Flowtech Fluidpower sustains strong gross margin

7th September 2021

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO), a leading specialist supplier of technical fluid power components and services has announced its 2021 half-year report for the six months ended 30 June 2021. “We are pleased that current trading continues

Flowtech Fluidpower revenue streams have increased significantly

3rd August 2021

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO), the specialist technical fluid power products supplier, has announced the following unaudited trading update on its performance for the six-month financial reporting period ended 30 June 2021. “We continue to make good

Flowtech Fluidpower Analyst Q&A: Outlook is improving & industrial markets will continue to recover (LON:FLO)

2nd February 2021

Zeus Capital’s Andy Hanson discusses Flowtech Fluidpower in this exclusive interview with DirectorsTalk.

Flowtech Fluidpower Shares look potentially very cheap (Analyst Interview)

27th January 2021

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) is the topic of conversation when Andy Hanson Director of Equity Research at Zeus Capital joins DirectorsTalk. Andy explains how the company has fared during 2020, the outlook for Flowtech and shares his thoughts on

Analyst Q&A: Flowtech Fluidpower “remains profitable for the first half” (LON:FLO)

15th September 2020

Zeus Capital’s Andy Hanson discusses Flowtech Fluidpower plc in this exclusive interview with DirectorsTalk.

Flowtech Fluidpower a strong performance despite a pandemic (Analyst Interview)

10th September 2020

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) is the topic of conversation when Andy Hanson, Research Analyst at Zeus Capital discusses interim results. Andy talks us through the key highlights, how the company performed during the pandemic, the outlook and the company

Flowtech Fluidpower improving revenue trends will see an improvement in profitability in H2

8th September 2020

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) interim results provide detail to the comprehensive update released in late July (28th). The business traded profitably in each month of H1 apart from April, despite lockdown, reporting adj. operating profit of

Flowtech Fluidpower a positive first half – Zeus Capital (Analyst Interview)

30th July 2020

Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) are the topic of conversation with Andy Hanson, Research Analyst at Zeus Capital. Andy explains how the company dealt with COVID during the first 6 months, how its traded since restrictions have eased and

Flowtech Fluidpower will come through 2020 in a better position than most

15th June 2020

The latest trading update highlights that Flowtech Fluidpower plc (LON:FLO) has traded well during lockdown having been breakeven across April and May. This highlights the strength of the model and the inherent resilience of the MRO

Flowtech Fluidpower Industrial Distribution

14th January 2020

Yesterday’s UK GDP data highlighted the weakness experienced in the economy during calendar Q4. This has been reflected in the trading patterns at Flowtech Fluidpower with weaker than anticipated demand leading to a 10% reduction in

Employee engagement

18th November 2019

Employee engagement is closely correlated to productivity. Highly engaged employees (those who feel positive and involved at work), are likely to be more passionate, hard-working, willing to learn and more supportive and inspiring towards customers. As

Derek Lane: The Full Service

14th November 2019

Derek Lane & Co was founded in 1979 and is a supplier of fluid power products and engineered solutions via its onsite Parker store. Flowtech Fluidpower PLC (LON:FLO) was acquired the company in March 2018, along

Learn about Robotics in Manufacturing

7th November 2019

Episode 7 of Fluid Power Forum, NFPA’s new fluid power industry-focused podcast, is now live. This episode features Donna Ritson of DDR Communications, who presents about the use of industrial robots in markets important to fluid power. The podcast builds upon her presentation

Thoughts on fluid power’s DNA

29th October 2019

Genetic testing has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry because it offers insight into your ancestry and, potentially, your future health. Likewise, it helps to understand fluid power’s DNA. In a recent keynote at the 16th

Flowtech Fluidpower Q3 trading update

23rd October 2019

Coming just a month after the release of the interim results (24th September) today’s Q3 trading statement does not contain any surprises. Organic revenue growth has slowed since June but remains positive at 1.8%. Contribution from the

Flowtech Fluidpower Outlook for future growth remains positive

22nd October 2019

AIM listed specialist technical fluid power products supplier Flowtech Fluidpower (LON:FLO), issued the following unaudited Q3 Trading Update for the nine-month financial reporting period ended 30 September 2019: GROUP TRADING UPDATE AND FINANCIALS Revenue for the nine-month period

Be sure to check our sister interview main ratings news website