OCF specialises in supporting the significant big data challenges of private and public UK organisations. Our in-house team and extensive partner network can design, integrate, manage or host the high performance compute, storage hardware and analytics software necessary for customers to extract value from their data. With a 14-year heritage in HPC, managing big data challenges, OCF now works with over 20 per cent of the UK’s Universities, Higher Education Institutes and Research Councils, as well as commercial clients from the automotive, aerospace, financial, manufacturing, media, oil & gas, pharmaceutical and utilities industries.

OCF has the expertise to optimise HPC solutions for your specific business need and complement this with additional support and deployment services. Whether you are modelling CFD in a commercial or academic organisation, fast reliable processing of your analyses is key. OCF has a number of technology platforms designed to optimise your CFD applications across a range of disciplines, including aerospace, automotive, power generation, chemical manufacturing, medical research, and astrophysics.

E. E. Blyth & Co. Ltd was founded in April 1964. This later became the holding company for the various Blyth Group trading companies.

Blyth Metals Ltd has built its reputation and company on uniquely high standards of service.

Almost all products are despatched within 3 to 5 days of receipt of order. In the UK nearer to 24 hours is the norm. Unusually in today’s economic climate Blyth Metals Ltd keep a stock of materials ready cut.

Blyth Metals Ltd has its own processing plant located on Todwick Road, Dinnington. The plant offers various methods of cutting, straightening and shotblasting. With two processing bays, each 4000 sq ft and over an acre used as a stocking area – we truly offer an end-to-end solution.

Established in 1955, DSM Fabrications is a dependable family owned business that provides a quality and reliable subcontract metal fabrication service from our workshops in South Shields, Tyne and Wear.

We specialise in fabricating bespoke metal products in mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium for many industries nationwide.  We can also provide metal working services on site and offshore.

Our philosophy is simply to provide excellence in metal fabrication by fabrication.  This is done by employing highly skilled metal workers and providing a first rate service to our customers.

Our breadth: Over 200 specialist policies designed for your businesses, properties, passions, and most things in between.Our size: We have nearly 100 offices nationwide and over 4000 staff on hand to deliver you the service that suits your circumstances.Our people: The advisors we hire are trained and able to give you advice; asking you all the right questions so that you have the protection you require.Our partners: We work closely with the UK’s leading insurers to find you competitive cover options – often bespoke to your needs rather than ‘off-the-shelf’.

Karmelle Ltd is a British company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of bespoke liquid filling machines, capping machines and labellers. With over 30 years of proven experience in the liquid packaging industry, Karmelle offers a wide range of equipment to develop cost effective solutions for their clients’ individual requirements. Since 1985, Karmelle’s machinery has been manufactured in Yorkshire for clients throughout the UK and around the world. In recent years they have expanded their products and services to better serve customers and meet their needs for a complex solution, which led to their popular turn key liquid filling, capping and labelling lines.

Merritts Machinery Movers are leading specialists in the lifting, transportation, installation, removal and storage of high performance manufacturing machinery & production equipment. From project start to project completion, Merritts Machinery Movers can provide you with the necessary resources to deal with every aspect of your machinery and equipment handling requirements. Working across varied sectors, our service has evolved into an industry leading package, offering a comprehensive turnkey solution, delivered by a fully trained team, operating the most state of the art equipment currently on the market.

Mey-Tech Limited, specialise in the supply of environmentally friendly lamination facilities. Their areas of expertise include production for the automotive, technical textiles, medical and cosmetic industries, amongst many more. Their products include components used in the manufacture of adhesive dressings, underwear linings, self tan mits, and integral laminated components used during the manufacture of vehicles such as Landrover and Bentley.

For nearly 80 years, we’ve been a leader in insulation, roofing, and fiberglass composites. And our global presence, with 17,000 people in 33 countries, helps us keep a pulse on the needs of customers around the world.

A revolutionary fall prevention system that’s fast and easy to assemble yet fully compliant with BSEN 13374:2013 for Class A and B Protection. Discover the full range of products from RAPID EPS at http://www.rapideps.com, each product is precision manufactured in Britain to meet exacting standards worldwide. Members of the British Safety Council, Edge Protection Federation and Concrete Structures Group. Certified to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001:2004.

Our friendly RoadCrew customer service team are on hand 24/7, 365 days a year to give advice or help with any technical questions you may have. Mobile workers have direct access to the RoadCrew simply by pressing a button on their JobWatch mobile computer.

JobWatch has been developed to perfectly meet the needs of any size of business from SMEs to major blue chip organisations. So whether you have one vehicle or ten thousand, JobWatch will change the way you work for the better, without adding extra complexity. Our solution delivers a level of functionality that has previously only been available to leading multinational corporations with major IT budgets.

The UK’s foremost Structural Foam Injection Moulder, Hallam Plastics has 40 years experience of providing creative thermoplastic solutions across a wide range of industrial sectors.

Nordson Corporation delivers precision technology solutions to help customers succeed worldwide. We engineer, manufacture and market differentiated products used for dispensing adhesives, coatings, sealants, biomaterials and other materials; for fluid management; for test and inspection; and for UV curing and plasma surface treatment. We support our products with application expertise and direct global sales and service. The Nordson company serves numerous consumer non-durable, durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, construction, and general product assembly and finishing. Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, USA, we have operations and support offices in more than 30 countries.

Based in the heart of England, Willstec is providing excellence in precision engineering to a wide range of industries.

We are specialists in Lean Manufacturing tools, techniques and methodologies, ensuring our team will provide you with the quality, costs and agile service you deserve.

It’s all about precision. Our approach to quality and reliability is shaped by the business we are in. Precision engineering requires an approach to work where quality and reliability are essential at every stage.

All our customers have benefited from this and that is why they continue to use us.

After securing our modern facility and commisioning our equipment and machinery, we have been extremely active in the automotive, automation and aerospace sectors.

As well as large projects and quantities, we welcome one-off orders and small batches.

Finch Insurance Brokers provides corporate clients with progressive and innovative insurance solutions to protect their business and staff members. Established in 1983, Finch is one of the UK’s most prominent & respected independent broking firms, founded on a reputation for excellence in client service.

Finch Insurance Brokers is part of a family-owned French insurance broker, Verlingue, one of Europe’s largest independent insurance brokers employing over 550 people & handling premiums in excess of £750m. It serves clients across all industries, both in the Public and Private Sector, ranging from mid-sized private companies to large multi-national corporations.

The company combines the dynamic characteristics of an independent local business with the world class resources & global reach of a major international provider of insurance & financial services.

Worldwide Broker Network (WBN)

We are a founder member of WBN, the largest international network of Independent Insurance Brokers and Employee Benefit Consultants made up of members in over 100 countries. This means that through our international partners, our clients can enjoy a consistently high standard of service virtually anywhere in the world, and access to worldwide insurance markets.

Key services include:

Insurance and Risk Management

Proactive claims management

International Risk

Specialist insurance products

Employee Benefits: Pensions, Private Medical Insurance, Group Risk, Cash Plans

Applied Inspection Ltd was formed in March 1984 offering a high quality non destructive NDT service to industry; rapidly gaining a reputation for being one of the most highly qualified NDT companies in the UK. The company soon acquired a customer base covering a very wide range of industries both in this country and overseas. The company has expanded in both size and the range of services offered. The company now operates out of three principal sites – Chesterfield, Burton on Trent and Ossett, West Yorkshire, with a satellite site in Glasgow.

At Haywood & Jackson we are proud to be able to provide all customers with ground breaking solutions to a wide range of specialist services with the satisfaction we can provide an extremely high standard of service.

Since starting the business in 1972, John Haywood has developed the business and moved with the times to ensure customer satisfaction every step of the way. Our vehicle fleet has recently been updated and we have introduced a new Health & Safety and Quality Management System.

Using our up to date, modern workshop facility (including our storage yard approx. ¼ acre) and our multi-skilled workforce we are able to provide a vast array of expertise, however we do not rest on our laurels and view training as an essential part of our business.

All employees hold CSCS cards, Network Rail Sentinel NCCA Personal Track Safety Cards, National Water Hygiene Cards, and CSTS Cards amongst others and attend appropriate training courses as necessary to keep up with the ever changing requirements of the industry and the needs of our clients.

As our customers are so diverse so is our work, throughout the years of working for the Rail Industry we have adapted and become expert installers of glass reinforced polymers (GRP) products.

Air Products touches the lives of consumers around the globe in positive ways every day. With over 20,000 employees and operations in more than 50 countries, we serve customers across a wide range of industries from food and beverage, health and personal care to energy, transportation and semiconductors. We supply a unique portfolio of atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and services.

Founded in 1940, Air Products has built a reputation for its innovative culture, operational excellence and commitment to safety and the environment. Our aim is to develop lasting relationships with our customers and communities based on human qualities: understanding their needs, doing business with integrity and honesty, and demonstrating a passion for exceeding expectations.

We make extra, ordinary.