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Cnc Machining

  • Just in Time Deliveries Just Got Better After Move

    01 Mar 2004

    Precision Products (Brighton) Ltd has recently moved its head office to Rustington and consolidated its operations from three sites to two. 

  • Advanced EDM Business Invests to be UK's Best

    01 Mar 2004

    Just weeks after engineering group PG Technology Ltd completed a purposebuilt 'EDM Centre' in Surrey, the firm invested in a new, top-of-the-range, 5-axis vertical machining centre from Mikron. The latest Charmilles single and twin-wire EDM and CNC spark erosion machines, bring the company's total EDM investment over recent years well into seven figures. 

  • Time Taken To Program Can Be as Little as Ten Minutes

    01 Mar 2004

    At Ilford Engineering, the time taken to program from drawing to finished component can be as little as ten minutes. The firm's latest acquisition is a 7.5hp (5.6kW) Proturn VL 355 manual/CNC lathe, supplied by XYZ Machine Tools. 

  • Machining Subcontractor is Committed to Training

    01 Mar 2004

    There can be no doubt then that when 19 year old Andrew Rodgers takes his place in July as the latest modern apprentice at Claro Precision Engineering Ltd, Knaresborough, he will be joining one of the best and most committed companies in the country for training. The company's SEMTA registration as a Training Assessment Centre has been renewed for the next two years - an essential requirement in order to support the necessary training needed to ensure that the company can continue to develop and grow. 

  • Turned Parts Specialist Moves Without Hang Ups

    01 Mar 2004

    On 16th February, CNC precision turning specialist Qualiturn Products Ltd, moved from its original threeunit site to new premises under one roof, two miles away. Prior to the move, it took one week to cut away hundreds of welded-on hooks and fittings at the new location (18 Merchant Drive, Herts), which was previously occupied by welding engineers. The whole machine shop of 16 lathes was moved and reinstalled in only four and a half days. 

  • Automotive Company Saves Days on 5-Axis Programming

    01 Mar 2004

    Basildon based Firstek Limited has achieved substantial savings after installing PEPS SolidCut Laser to drive their Prima 5-axis laser machines. Upon installation the most noticeable improvement was that of speed. A part that might have taken 5-6 hours to take from drawing to code can now be done in 2 or 3 hours, which over the course of a week saves about a day. 

  • Recent Order Book Growth Follows £800k Investment

    01 Mar 2004

    The order book at North Somerset Reproductions (NSR), Bristol is up by 30% in the last 4 months. 

  • Balls Just Keeps On Growing

    01 Mar 2004

    Although focused initially on tool and cutter grinding, these days Balls Grinding Services takes on any machining work, from production quantities to one-off tool making and everything in-between. From being one of the first in the UK to install XYZ's DPM turret mills and more recently Proturn CNC lathes, 25-employee Balls Grinding Services has progressed to two Vulcan 610 machining centres and its latest acquisition, a 9/12kW Vulcan 150 turning centre. 

Corrosion & Wear Resistance

  • Blacking of Iron and Steel Will Be On Show at MACH

    01 Mar 2004

    Room temperature blacking of iron and steel is a subcontract service provided by Blackfast Chemicals, Surrey. The company will be demonstrating its new Vapourblack process at MACH next month. 

  • Feedback Sought on Concentrated Corrosion

    01 Mar 2004

    A new form of aggressive, localised corrosion has occurred on unprotected steel marine structures over the past 20 years. It affects structures at or around the low water level and is called accelerated low water corrosion (ALWC), lowest astronomical tide corrosion, or concentrated corrosion. 

  • Heat Treatment Facilities Extended with Upgrades

    01 Mar 2004

    Keighley Laboratories Ltd, the specialist sub-contract company offering heat-treatments and metallurgical laboratory and technical services has recently achieved the new ISO 17025 accreditation for technical services, and has been continually upgrading its facilities by investing in new equipment and improved processes and controls. 

  • New Rig Tests for Combined Effect of Corrosion Plus Wear

    01 Mar 2004

    To help solve customers' on-going problems caused by combined wear and corrosion, Poeton has recently expanded its environmental test facilities to include a new corrosive/wear rig that will produce new data on the performance of its Apticote protective coatings. 

Industry News

  • Spring Industry Invited to Institute's Open Day

    01 Mar 2004

    The Institute of Spring Technology will be opening it's doors on Thursday 20 May for customers in the spring industry supply chain to view the facilities and to meet IST staff. 

  • 'Birthday ' Marks Progress for Tooling Project

    01 Mar 2004

    One year into its three year term, the GTMA-led, EU funded, FASTOOL project, which aims to reduce toolmaking times by more than 50%, is making good progress. 

  • Waste Minimisation Guide and Case Study Launched

    01 Mar 2004

    Envirowise is currently looking for engineering companies who would be prepared to work with their key suppliers to assess and achieve cost savings through participation in this year's Supply Chain Partnership programme. 

  • High Quality Advice Limits Effects of CCL President Putin Speaks for Engineers' Interests

    01 Mar 2004

    When the Government committed to the Kyoto protocol, they failed to take into account the inability of smaller companies to access high quality advice to enable them to understand where they could reduce energy costs, or provide them with support to enable them to invest in the required operational changes, says Mark Eaton, Director of the MAS (South East & London), for EEF South. 

  • Companies Access Help With Strategic Development Projects

    01 Mar 2004

    London Metropolitan University has recently established a Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Centre specifically to help companies across the UK access generous subsidies and tax breaks to undertake strategically important projects and employ high quality graduates. A KTP is a government subsidised partnership between a company and the University, which lasts between two and three years. The level of financial support that companies get makes this scheme attractive. 

Non-metallic Materials Engineering

  • Captive Contract Manufacturing Plant Prospers After MBO

    01 Mar 2004

    One year on from a management buyout on 1st April 2003, HBC Engineering Solutions, Sheerness, is producing over 70 million plastic and 120 million metal components per year. The company employs over 200 staff on its 10 acre modern manufacturing site, and achieved an annual turnover of £17 million after only eight months. 

  • Demand for Cut to Length and Blue Acetal Increases

    01 Mar 2004

    Plastim Ltd, Gloucestershire, one of the UK's largest stockists and distributors of engineering plastic rods, tubes and sheets has seen the demand for cut blocks, strips and billets increase significantly over the past year. Plastim has won major contracts to supply cut-to-length nylon, acetal and PTFE billets, resulting in the company investing in an additional precision high-speed billeting saw. 

Subcon 2004

  • Hotlines open for UK's premier subcontracting event

    01 Mar 2004

    The hotlines are now open for visitors to register for Britain's premier subcontract manufacturing event, Subcon 2004, which takes place alongside MACH at the NEC Birmingham from 19 to 21 April. 

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