Engineering
Part Manufacture
We’re fortunate to have in-house vacuum forming, injection moulding and (prototype) press facilities. In addition to die-cut and 5 axis trimming we can take on component manufacture to provide a full end-to-end service.
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Part Manufacturing
Part Prototyping
We regularly prototype for customers while they are trying to get the design right of a part. This can be produced of very cost-effective tooling. We can work with a large variety of materials including most plastics, light foam, woven and co-polymer materials. We can supply these for customers to trim themselves or trim them ourselves either by hand, die cutting or CNC routering. For more information on our trimming capabilities visit our Jigs & Trim Fixtures page.
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Measurement & Inspection
Full Part Production
We have 3 high-spec vacuum formers with heated plattens that are regularly used for materials such as polycarbonate. In addition to that we have 2 injection mould machines – one at 380 tonnes and one at 600 tonnes. This give us a wide range of capacity for full production runs which, combined with CNC 5 axis trimming can give a boost to our customer’s own capacity by being an experienced and reliable offload partner.
Our Services
We have a long track record in working in the aerospace, automotive, mass transport, earth moving equipment and medical sectors. Geographically we have a wider customer base in the UK, Ireland mainland Europe and North America.
We can import all files and formats and daily work with STP, CATIA, XT and STL files. We run Powershape and Solidworks for technical CAD, and Geomagic Freeform for creative CAD (with haptic arm). We use Powermill for milling and Vectric for flat routing. In essence though we can take models from most formats and turn them into quality tooling, 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.
Who we work with…
Working alongside brands you know and love
We’ve helped the brands below with anything from creating parts for the next supercar, design a new plane seat or creating the next must-have chocolate. There’s never a dull day.
We’ve been designing, machining and delivering thermoform tooling for 30 years and constantly reinvest in our capability to ensure we
stay ahead.
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