Engineering

We have a long track record in working in the aerospace, automotive, mass transport, earth-moving equipment and medical sectors. Geographically we have a wide customer base in the UK, Ireland, mainland Europe and North America.

We can import all files and formats and work daily with STP, CATIA, XT and STL files. We run Powershape and Solidworks for technical CAD, and Geomagic Freeform for creative CAD (using our haptic arm). We use Powermill for milling and Vectric for flat routing. In essence, we can take models from most formats and turn them into quality tooling parts, or create components from scratch.

We have 12 Hurco CNC machines - VMX30 (x2), 30s, 42i (x2), 50t, 50, 50i (x2), DCX 22i, VM10 and 10i; Romi d800; Maxicam M8 5 axis router/mill. We will shortly be commissioning a Roeders RXP501 HSM with 42K RPM spindle speed.

We can machine most metals up to 2200mm x 1600mm x 400mm 3 axis. Our 5 axis CNC can machine all model boards and some light aluminium work up to 2400mm x 1200mm x 500mm.

The vast proportion of our customers ask for Ureol/model board for prototyping and aluminium or steel dependant on the tooling. We work with a wide variety of model boards dependant on the application. Such is the volume of our purchasing for aluminium and model board we are very confident in our material costs on quotes and only charge a nominal handling charge on top. We do not mark up material costs.

Dependant on complexity of the job and capacity but we can go from receiving CAD data to delivery of tools and CNC fixtures in as little as 2 weeks, delivering ourselves where possible.

We’re accredited to ISO 9001 but see this as a baseline to improve from and set our targets for quality higher than the standard requires.