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      <title>Service offers four free days of consultancy</title>
      <description>UK Industry and Regions Minister Margaret Hodge announced a massive leap forward for the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) while on a visit to Sheffield last week.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Manufacturing advice helps component manufacturer</title>
      <description>Thanks to help from the Manufacturing Advisory Service in the East Midlands Micron Design has positioned itself to win more orders from the aerospace sector and expand its business further. </description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Aerospace company pre-empts environment rules</title>
      <description>Trac Baker is well on its way to earning the environmental credentials which could soon become mandatory for businesses supplying the aerospace sector.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advice is key to managed expansion</title>
      <description>A Measham-based company has seen its production capacity soar and is planning to take on more staff following support it's received from the region's chief manufacturing advisers.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Scheme helps aerospace businesses boost profits</title>
      <description>A Nottinghamshire aerospace firm which supplies one of the world's biggest names in aerospace is making great strides towards securing its long-term future and winning more orders.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Design advice helps old concept meet new demands</title>
      <description>A technology that has been around since the Second World War to give soldiers a hot meal on the go is now being used by a Derbyshire company to conquer the US market.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advice helps Landamores build boats faster</title>
      <description>Norfolk luxury-yacht-building company Landamores has increased its productivity by over 25% in the last few months, thanks to support from the DTI Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS).</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>New product development is key to competition</title>
      <description>Report urges manufacturing companies to invest in new product development in order to remain competitive globally.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Business advice aids deep drill development</title>
      <description>A specialist Derbyshire engineering company is developing a product that could soon see it helping the oil industry drill in the most remote and deepest places on the planet.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Day is dedicated to innovation in the workplace</title>
      <description>Tuesday 14th November 2006 is Ideas at Work Day.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Service supplies process improvement</title>
      <description>By working with MAS, Cadwalader's has set in motion systems that will help it meet the demands created by high growth, both now and in the future.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lift off scheme reduces costs</title>
      <description>Copely Developments has reduced its costs thanks to a scheme called Lift Off that helps East Midlands aerospace companies boost their profits.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Service targets aerospace suppliers at Farnborough</title>
      <description>A new campaign aims to encourage manufacturers working within the aerospace supply chain industry to take advantage of the wide range of benefits the DTI Manufacturing Advisory Service has to offer.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Advisory service proves its worth</title>
      <description>Figures from the DTI's Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) show it has added GBP 69 million of value to the firms who have come to it for help over the past year.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Government troubleshooter cuts costs for Alcon</title>
      <description>Motor sport supplier maintains its competitive edge thanks to support from the Government's Manufacturing Advisory Service.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tool takes dispassionate look at offshoring</title>
      <description>Too many businesses rush into offshoring because they think it is the most cost effective way to maintain their competitiveness, but this is not always the case, says the MAS.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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