Director Nathan Bluer comments: "We work with blue chip companies in the chemical, petro-chemical, pharmaceutical, nuclear and process industries - these industries inherently require the machining of difficult to cut materials. To suit this, we bought the rigid and robust Cincinnati CFV1050i, it meets all our needs and it has a Heidenhain control our engineers are familiar with, which meant the machine could slot straight into our production environment."

The company manufactures small to medium batches from materials ranging from plastics to nimonic alloys including hastelloy, monel, titanium and stainless steels.

"We have fully skilled engineers in our CNC and conventional machine shops, all under one 18,000 sq/ft roof and the aim is to gradually increase the number of CNC machines we have. We are putting more small batches and one-off jobs on the CNC's, hence the investment. The new Cincinnati has proven its worth in this capacity as it produces a wide variety of components, " says Mr Bluer.

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