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Leading 5-axis Machinist Enhances Capacity for Milling Large Impellers
01 Sep 2004
Earlier this year, Turbocam Europe, a leading specialist in 5-axis machining with a core competency in 5-axis milling, took delivery of the latest Hermle C40U machining centre. The company supplies impellers to major aerospace and industrial turbomachinery projects in Europe, and is part of a group of companies that also develops and sells specialized software for 5-axis machining.
£300k Investment Will Free Up Hands-On Boss
01 Sep 2004
Next month a new 9-axis Puma MX2000 turning centre will be installed at Richmond CNC Engineering, Devon. It accounts for the largest share of a £300,000 investment in two Puma CNC machines (the other is a large capacity lathe) plus tooling. The new acquisitions were made possible by a good six months of increased orders, and mark a significant upturn in capacity for the family run firm, which has a total of 19 employees.
Prestigious Award Won Second Year Running
01 Sep 2004
Knaresborough based Claro Precision Engineering has struck gold again. The company has won one of the most prestigious awards in the engineering industry, for the second year running. It picked up the coveted GTMA World Class Golden Globe award at the GTMA World Class awards ceremony recently.
Five Year Contract Won for Engineering Services to UK Research Labs
01 Sep 2004
In June Acrona Engineering, Oxfordshire, won a five year contract to become one of the few engineering companies selected by the Central Laboratory of Research Councils (CCLRC), to provide a wide range of general manufacture, assembly and testing work. This success is the crowning point of Acrona's 10 year transition into a prestigious workshop that specializes in one offs and small batch work, where no machine is more than three years old.
Switch to 5-Axis Machines Achieves One-Hit Targets
01 Sep 2004
The objective at Kencom Engineering is to machine complex components in one hit. The company's switch to 5axis machining coupled with a 'right first time' ethos has resulted in a significant reduction in machining times. Kencom took delivery of its first simultaneous five-axis controlled twincolumn Mazak Variaxis 500 in 2002.
Investments Continue as Company Expands
01 Sep 2004
Contract-manufacturing specialist PG Technology, Surrey has recently completed the installation of two, top-of-the-range S31 5-axis CNC Studer grinding machines and a pair of two Mikron CNC vertical machining centres: a VCP600 and a VCE600. The installations come just a few weeks after the rapidly expanding company purchased a 5axis Mikron UCP 1350 vertical machining centre for its CNC machine shop.
New Sliding Head Lathe Wins Back Old Contracts and Attracts New Ones
01 Sep 2004
Dawson Precision Components is a family-owned and run business that has invested more than £1m in the factory, offices and new equipment over the last five years. However, it was the latest addition (a 13-axis Citizen M32-III installed in September 2003), that enabled the company to win old business it lost prior to its investment campaign.
Specialist Training Brings Immediate Benefits
01 Sep 2004
Kepston Ltd, whilst already a long term advocate of training (the company has had IIP for over eight years) was genuinely surprised at the immediate benefit of a spell of recent training. Within four weeks of specialised training for the Hauser S35-400 CNC jig grinding machine, £10,000 worth of orders were received and processed that previously would not have been possible.
Bold Business Plan Meets DTI's Challenge Head On
01 Sep 2004
Business development director Andrew Chantrill of sub-contract machinist Springer Rapid Industries, Rotherham, expounds the virtues of the DTI's Manufacturing Strategy. As far as he is concerned the document is a challenge that his company should meet head on. Springer Rapid's business plan says that: '..In five year's time we will be the largest five-axis sub-contract machining company in the UK'.
