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Cnc Machining

  • Somerset Subbie Wins Zero Defects Award

    01 Sep 2002

    With over 30 years experience in subcontract precision engineering, Metrics Engineering Co Ltd, Somerset, offer a high quality CNC milling and turning services mainly for the automotive industry. The company's quality system is accredited to ISO2001:2000, and has recently received a prestigious Federal Mogul Zero Defects award. 

  • F1 Supplier Gears Up Programming Capacity

    01 Sep 2002

    The past few months at Amdale Ltd, Portsmouth have been spent gearing up for the demands of additional orders during the Formula One build season. Increasing programming capacity with Delcam's PowerShape and PowerMill CADCAM system was a top priority. 

  • High Speed Op Prompts Change to Synthetic Fluid

    01 Sep 2002

    Birmingham-based PDP Engineering operates twelve fixed-head and two new sliding-head CNC machines and employs sixty people. The company discovered that its new tools and machines were designed for high speed operation, but its cutting fluid wasn't. 

  • The Significance of CNC is Recorded

    01 Sep 2002

    Thirty years ago affordable computer numerical control (CNC) technology became available for the first time when Fujitsu Fanuc Ltd introduced a machining centre controlled by small inexpensive programmable computer. The significance of CNC is recorded at the National Museum of Science and Industry in London with a display of a Fanuc 6-TB control system fitted to a Colchester lathe. 

  • CNC Machining Steps Up Component Complexity

    01 Sep 2002

    Hampshire's Gravatom Engineering Systems Ltd (GESL) has enhanced its component manufacturing capabilities with the addition of four state of the art CNC machines. 

  • Components Machined And Milled With Precision

    01 Sep 2002

    Cawkwell Engineering Ltd of Byfleet Surrey is an established sub contractor supplying precision components to a broad customer base, aerospace, medical, special purpose machines and Formula One. 

Heavy Engineering

  • Turn For The Better In Manual or CNC Mode

    01 Sep 2002

    Wellington Engineering of Hayes, Middlesex, a precision subcontractor serving the needs of the medical, automotive and general engineering sectors, has installed two additional Colchester CNC lathes in the last eight months. 

  • Rolling Stock Supplier Is Environmentally Friendly

    01 Sep 2002

    Wickham Rail Engineering Ltd, the Colchester-based heavy engineering company, originally specialised in the overhaul of steam locomotives and diesel engine refurbishment. 

  • Coating Polymers Repair Dutch Power Plant Pipes

    01 Sep 2002

    Last month the second phase of a project began to repair and coat the fuel feed pipes of a coal fire power station in Holland. The contract, valued in excess of £250,000, was won by Roodhart Emission Control, the Dutch distributor of Thistlebond engineering repair and maintenance coating compounds. 

  • Giant Tool Cuts Largest Bore Holes

    01 Sep 2002

    The Scottish engineering company Innovative Tooling Solutions has recently introduced a new addition to its controlled boring product range. 

Industry News

  • Metalworking Fluids Exposure Tackled

    01 Sep 2002

    Dermatitis, and respiratory effects, including bronchitis and asthma are the main health concerns associated with exposure to metal working fluids, such as coolants and cutting oils. To reduce these health risks, the HSE and the Engineering Employers' Federation will launch new guidance on good practice standards at the first of a series of seminars being organised in October and November at venues around the UK. 

  • MAS Shortens Odds In The Supply Chain

    01 Sep 2002

    "Sometimes it is better to pay a higher price to get a lower cost" says Mark Eaton, Head of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) in the South East. He explains why sometimes paying a few pence more for a product can reduce overall costs to a business by thousands of pounds. 

  • Scottish Engineering Features Renewables

    01 Sep 2002

    Scottish Manufacturing and Engineering Show, at the SECC, Glasgow 5 - 7 November, is featuring a section on energy efficiency and waste minimisation. 

  • RPD Boosted Through Powder Processing

    01 Sep 2002

    The ability of UK manufacturing industry to compete in world markets received a major boost with the announcement of a new Faraday Partnership for Rapid Manufacturing through Powder Processing. 

Surface Treatments & Finishing

  • Thin Wet Films Replace Grease in Many Areas

    01 Sep 2002

    In the Automotive and Transport feature in last month's Engineering Capacity, the new Carbaflo coating technology was incorrectly described in the headline as a 'dry' film coating, which it is not. 

  • Special Vibratory Processes Finish Off

    01 Sep 2002

    Midland Deburr & Finish, Lye, West Midlands, provides a specialist component finishing service to industry. 

  • Merger Turns Up The Heat

    01 Sep 2002

    Hammond Heat Treatment, Darlaston, recently merged with another West Midland's heat treatment company, Homer of Redditch to become the largest sub contract heat treatment facility in the UK. 

  • Surface Engineering Awards 2002 Recognise and Honour Excellence

    01 Sep 2002

    The Surface Engineering Awards 2002 will be presented at a gala dinner on Friday 11 October in the International Convention Centre, Birmingham. 

  • Powder Coating Is Not Just For Vending

    01 Sep 2002

    Messers Solutions, the manufacturing arm of N&W Global Vending, is diversifying its operations by setting up a sub-contract facility that utilises the kit, people and processes at its Bilston site in the West Midlands. 

  • Electroless Diffused Nickel Resists Corrosion

    01 Sep 2002

    Over the last two years Nitec UK Ltd, a specialist in electroless nickel plating, has invested £750,000 and added a sixth plating line at its plant in Chesterfield, Derbyshire. 

Welsh Manufacturing

Stevens Rowsell is a specialist precision sheet metal engineering company in East Sussex