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Short Runs and Quick SetUps Attract New Orders
01 Dec 2005
When a new Star SR32J, was delivered earlier this year to the Chingford based turned parts contractor Inro, it marked the company's 25th year in business. It also represented the latest development in a continuing investment programme that has contributed in excess of £2.5m worth of the latest machine tool technology over the past seven years.
Commenting on the apparent slow down in filling order books, senior partner, Roger Innes says that companies are doing well if their orders are booked beyond four weeks.
Inro's ability to accommodate short runs and quick set ups has attracted new customers.
Mr Innes attributes his company's growth mainly on the purchase of 12 Star and Miyano CNC lathes. "We will continue to install new equipment that fills a gap in the turned parts market", says Mr Innes. To secure its substantial capacity for larger turned parts and components, ranging from 3mm to 51mm bar capacity, Inro has built up a dedicated and skilled workforce of CNC setters, on 24 hour shifts.
The mainstay of Inro's business is complex components in specialist materials, particularly for medical, offshore, aerospace, defence and autosport industries. About half of Inro's components require cross milling and drilling and nearly all are machined on the reverse. Stainless steel accounts for 70% of throughput, the majority of the remainder being steel, brass and aluminium.
www.inro-eng.co.uk
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