Thomas Keating Ltd welcomes Reece Clements to begin his toolmaking apprenticeship. 'An apprentice's first year's training, which uses a training structure that has been in place since 1940 in the manufacture of personal equipment, really does allow that apprentice to appreciate the skills needed when using hand tools through to operating machinery. 'With that comes personal pride in seeing what they have achieved' says Training Supervisor Dave Cox. TK strongly believes in the continuation of strengthening its personnel skill base for the future. 'We are always planning ahead so we are able to recruit an apprentice year on year' says Toolmaking Manager, Simon Duke. ...
The GRaCE Radar - with TK designed Quasi-Optical circulator and high gain antenna - has observed Mie notches at a frequency associated with small raindrops for the first time - a world first: Chilboton from the air - GRace is sitting on the Red Star GRaCE - G-band Radar for Cloud Evaluation - is a development of a 200 GHz Monostatic, pulsed, doppler, zenith looking, solid state radar by consortium of the UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, St.Andrews and Leicester Universities as well as commercial partner TK, funded by the UK's Centre for Earth Observation Instrumentation. The GrACE radar has given this Doppler spectrum - taken during a rainstorm by the Chilbolton-based radar i...
We are delighted that the NASA/MIT TROPICS pathfinder cubesat - launched on the 30th June into a polar orbit by SpaceX's Transporter 2 - is operating well, and giving useful mm-wave images of the whole globe - three examples of which (at 92, 116 and 205 GHz) are below: Thomas Keating had the privilege of designing and making the antenna. There are a full details on NASA's www site here, with more technical details here - showing the progress of Ida ... and an explanatory video here (Thanks to NASA for the images)
TOOLMAKER / EDM WIRE TECHNICIAN We have a vacancy for an experienced toolmaker, preferably with EDM Wire erosion skills to join our team. Skills and Experience: Strong toolmaker experienceEDM Wire erosion desirableUse of CMM and CAD/CAM package would be an advantage We offer a competitive salary, flexible working hours, overtime, profit related bonus, generous holidays, life assurance and pension. Please send your CV by email to David Roberts:
The TK team which has designed, built and tested the On Board Calibration Target (OBCT) for EUMETSAT's Ice Cloud Imager mission (ICI) assembled to wave goodbye to the last three target as they departs for our customer AIRBUS in Spain.... viz FM2, FM3 and the Flight Spare. Built to provide hot radiometric calibration from 183 to 660 GHz, all three Targets have been calibrated to a few tens of mK precision in our TVAC facilities. From left to right: Nigel Richardson, Andy Bagley, Marie Parsons, Georg Sebek, Trevor Walker, Kevin Pike (Project Manager) , Josh Martin, Frank Jennings, Stuart Froud and Richard Wylde Missing from the picture are Jorge Fenandez de Toro Espejel, Graham Ba...
Thomas Keating Ltd welcomes Bob Evans,who has taken the position of sales representative for our toolmaking activities Bob brings with him over 40 years of manufacturing experience from making press and mould tools to machining aerospace parts, plus cost estimating of tooling, moulding, metal pressings and precision-machined parts. In recent years, he has moved into engineering sales. His experience helps him understand his customers' manufacturing issues and address these in a cost effective manner. Outside work he enjoys walking his dogs in the glorious Derbyshire countryside and watching most sports, recently discovering the joys of watching County Cricket You can contact Bo...