Processes
All of the processes below are carried out on site.
Design and development
- Technical advice and visits
- Drawings / Solid Works CAD
- Prototypes made and tested
- Pre production samples
- Testing – NDT and destructive
Meeting your needs
- Staff are available, several per department
- A modern, fast, computer system from ‘enquiry to despatch’
- Software also runs production scheduling, stock control etc
- £1/2 m of forgings ready to machine
- 1000’s of dies, tools & fixtures available
- Test / material / NDT / break load / certification
- Survey, repair work, as well as make new
- Tensile testing on your free issue parts
‘Hot work’ ability
- ‘Hot work’ ability on site
- Forging capacity and skills
- Drop forging hammers - Massey
- Air hammer - Zigmunt
- Upset hammers - Covmac -13 mm to 67 mm
- Clear space hammer work - Massey
- Heat treatment
-
Flash butt welding to 80 mm dia - 2 fully automated (LROS & Rail approved)
- Chain making, 2 plants, open link & stud chain to 62 mm at present
-
Linking, to 80 mm diameter
-
Blacksmithing
-
Hot swaging - Platt
-
Bending – up to 100mm dia
-
Profile cutting
- Mig and Tig welding
'Cold work'
- Cutting and cropping
-
Grinding & linishing
-
Drilling
-
Lathe work
-
Milling
-
Auto bar feed
-
Horizontal CNC
-
Vertical CNC
-
Our own die sinking capability
-
Tapping to M155
-
Threading to M155
- Tensile testing & certification (works or 3rd party) to 255 tonne
-
NDT, die penetrent, magnetic permiabilty, hardness
- Assembly
Size / material / finishes
-
Typically M 10 to M 155 thread
-
SWL‘s from 100 kgs to 200 tonne
-
Product size from pencil size to handling 4 ½ ton anchor
-
Batch size from 1 to 20,000
-
Carbon & alloy steels, stainless, bronze, and exotics.
- Self colour, galvanised, plated, painted, blacked, bead blasted
