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Roger Brereton

Roger Brereton is head of sales at steering system specialist Pailton Engineering, which specializes in providing custom-made steering parts for commercial vehicles and buses. Pailton Engineering designs, tests and delivers world-class steering systems using state of the art CAD (Solid Works), purpose-designed and -built test facilities, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capability. To keep up to date with the company’s news, opinion, focused content and case studies, visit this website.

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    The Pros and Cons of the Microfactory

    In the evolving landscape of electric vehicle manufacturing, is "giga" always better? Within this sector, a rivalry between two diametrically opposed manufacturing methods is playing out.
    By: Roger Brereton
    26 July, 2021 | 4 minutes
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