Oil and gas bottleneck removed
PR2 supplies low volume, high quality, difficult to manufacture turned parts
Kirkcaldy-based subcontractor PR2 Engineering has installed its fifth Mori Seiki turning centre to remove a bottleneck in oil and gas products caused by increased demand.
PR2 it supplies low volume, high quality, difficult to manufacture turned parts to blue chip customers in the oil and gas, petrochemical, defence, nuclear, and space industries.
Director Paul Halliwell says: “We cut difficult high temperature alloys such as Haynes 230, and Hastelloy X and the rigidity and power of the NLX2500MC, with its built-in motors on the turret and spindle and its box construction, enable us to cut these materials with no problems, allowing us to use the tips and coatings on our tooling to their fullest extent. We know that less rigid machines would definitely struggle with the type of work we are doing.”
He says the company’s plan is to invest continuously over the next five years, and the NLX2500MC was purchased to address a bottleneck in production for oil, gas and petrochemical products, where demand has grown rapidly.
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