The company's 9,000 sq. ft. of purpose-built workshops and facilities provide the space and flexibility to offer bespoke design and consultancy for product development, from initial research through prototyping to full production.

Recent and on-going projects include the machining of complex components such as wave guides, laser packages, heat sinks, hypo tubes, ring frames and chip carriers from stainless steels and telecommunications materials such as Kovar.

Tornos was the only machine tool supplier capable of meeting the very small scale part requirements of DCE Holne (R&D). This became apparent with a trial component that no other machine tool manufacturer could produce. The 6mm long by 0.8mm diameter job was required in quantities of 10,000 per week. The workpiece started as a tube that was cut to length then countersunk, slotted, deburred and given an identification marking before being sent for plating. Before the purchase of the Tornos, the part was produced manually by eight operators.

Employing eight skilled staff was itself an issue; however Tornos eradicated that need and enabled the company to reduce its staff costs.

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