Customers benefit from reduced lead times, with the process helping MCT to turn around parts, such as cam followers for NASCAR engines, extremely rapidly. The method, which removes peaks and 'normalises' a surface - reduces friction, so vital in the motorsport environment.

Rösler is the world's leading producer of surface finishing equipment and its research and development programmes have, in recent years, produced many processes now widely used across the world's high tech industries.

Nigel Eames, manufacturing manager at Oxfordshire-based MCT, explains: "Our commitment to delivering market-leading programmes for our clientbase means we are seeking, constantly, to improve our infrastructure and capabilities at the Leafield Technical Centre. Our surface-finishing resources add to our ability to offer a total solution to customers, across the automotive, motorsport and aerospace sectors."

He concluded: "The process, which improves significantly upon grinding and takes super-finishing to a new level while also improving component 'life', utilises a ceramic, abrasive media. This gives hardened steel engine components, such as cam followers, rocker arms, or any application where there is a metal to metal finish, a highly-polished finish, before the product is diamond like carbon-coated at the end of the process."