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Jonathan Newell

Our specialist Manufacturing IT editor is Jonathan Newell, who spent ten years with IBM, initially as a manufacturing engineer and later holding various positions relating to manufacturing planning and control. He then took on a variety of roles in consultancy and interim management before taking the position of IT Director for an international leisure marine group.He has written for Industrial Technology and Croner Publications.

Manufacturingtalk is edited by Mike Page

Mike Page

Mike Page - a former Black Country Bloke from Darlaston, West Midlands, has been writing in trade and technical journalism for some 30 or so years now after serving a student apprenticeship, and as a production engineer, at GKN Sankey, Bilston and Wellington. He also served time on Iron Age, Metalworking Production, European Automotive Production, Tunnels and Tunneling and latterly, Welding and Metal Fabrication. Mike is also leading a CECIMO Manufacturing Technologies (MANTYS) taskforce looking at the future machine tool requirements of the aerospace and automotive industries. Free time is taken up with travel and railways, coupled with archaeology and hill walking - as well as enjoying good food!

Jon Hobden

Our specialist editor for the Measurement and Quality and Subcontracting sectors is Jon Hobden. Jon has been at the cutting edge of industrial marketing for more than 20 years, working for world leaders like Hyster, Mitutoyo and First Index. Jon has been publisher of the highly-regarded Manufacturing Times magazine and has launched a number of corporate newsletters and magazines.