Accredited to the AS 9100 aerospace quality standard and an SC21 Bronze level award company since August 2010, Hone-All Precision Ltd reports that aerospace continues to be a growth area for the Leighton Buzzard-based subcontractor.
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Qioptiq develops and manufactures optical solutions for the military, including modules for head up displays for aircraft, night vision systems and sightings for rifles. For 40 years it has called on Dawson Precision Components (DPC) for a broad range of vital components which go into producing its military products.
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Premier Deep Hole Drilling has an enviable reputation in the demanding industry sectors it supports, which includes meeting the diverse challenges created by customers in the medical device and human implant industries.
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Premier is one of the UK's largest providers of specialist deep hole drilling, gun drilling and honing services. As a tier two supplier to the aerospace industry accredited to AS9100, the company's reputation in this demanding industry sector has resulted in a new contract to supply actuators for the new Bombardier CSeries regional aircraft programme.
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Hone-All Precision Ltd is already reaping the benefits of the recent decision to extend its machining capability with the installation of two Sunnen horizontal tube honing machines. According to Colin Rodney, Managing Director, this latest instalment in an ongoing investment programme has contributed significantly to the subcontract machining company's competitive edge, especially in tube honing applications requiring high stock removal rates on larger diameter components.
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With just a two-week window during a shutdown period, Inca Geometric rebuilt four complex fixtures on a special purpose machine tool used for producing V8 engine crankshafts. Each fixture, that had been in continuous three-shift production for over five years machining two crankshafts per cycle, weighed over two tonnes.
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Motorsport provides many technically challenging demands for the team at Premier Deep Hole Drilling. With several well-known race teams listed as customers, the company's passion extends directly to the race track with over a decade's sponsorship of the race team THR Motorsport.
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Following the installation of a Mazak VTC-300C-II travelling column vertical machining centre, Chartham near Canterbury-based Inca Geometric has been able to secure its first aerospace contract of 30 initial components with a totally new customer.
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St Albans, Hertfordshire-based specialist deep hole drilling, gun drilling and honing company Premier has been involved with the Eurofighter Typhoon since the aircraft project first started. Today, the company carries out all the drilling on the flap hinges of the moving wing parts machining a total of 12 different component part numbers, or 24 parts per aircraft.
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Telford, UK. May 2007: In developing revolutionary new technology for the diagnosis of cancer, Stokes Bio Ltd called upon the services of rapid injection moulding company Protomold to manufacture fully functioning prototypes in record time. From design finalisation through to supply of polycarbonate injection moulded prototypes took just 15 days!
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Through the Chessington-based operation of Mollart Engineering the medical industry can obtain a fully developed deep hole gundrilling system for creating the holes in titanium trauma nails. The development by Mollart is in response to the in-vogue growth in demand for the use of surgical grade titanium in preference to 316 stainless steel for trauma related components.
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With its stringent quality controls, high standards of production are necessary at all stages of aerospace manufacture, including from subcontractors. Dawson Precision Components (DPC), a leading precision engineering subcontractor, is one company that is used to working with this demanding industry.
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Inca Geometric, within a two-week window during a shutdown period, rebuilt four complex fixtures on a special purpose machine tool used for producing V8 engine crankshafts. Each fixture, that had been in continuous three-shift production for over five years machining two crankshafts per cycle, weighed over two tonnes.
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Providing precision ground gears for the autosport industry on a business to business basis is high on the agenda for Stockport based Mini Gears / Components Worldwide.
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Having completed the extensive refurbishment of its four deep hole borers, Hone-All Precision Ltd hasordered a new HTC series CNC horizontal honing machine from Sunnen Products Ltd. "Creating significant additional
boring capacity means we have to increase the capacity of our honing section to keep pace," says Hone-All Precision co-Director, Andrea Rodney.
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Having completed an extensive upgrading and refurbishment of four deep hole boring machines, Hone-All Precision Ltd is now investing more than £200,000 in upgrading its specialist honing capability. This involves revamping part of its 20,000 sq. ft. factory to accommodate two additional honing machines, without disrupting the Leighton Buzzard subcontractor's carefully planned process flow.
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Highly complex connectors for oil and gas exploration are now being processed at Mollart Engineering in Chessington. The components made of difficult to machine Inconel 625 Plus, a heat and chemical resisting alloy, from billets 100 mm diameter by 770 mm long involve more than 20 separate machining operations that also include special processes. Eight operations involve turn-milling and gundrilling on two of Mollart's seven Mazak Integrex e-500H-II turn-mill centres.
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The commitment by four major companies to establish manufacturing bases in the UK in support of the manufacture of wind power generation equipment was confirmed in Lords' debate recently.
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Cutting & Wear Resistant Developments, the Rotherham-based precision manufacturing specialist, has reduced cycle times by as much as 50 per cent on selected parts with its recently installed Doosan 5-axis machining centre.
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Through the Chessington-based operation of Mollart Engineering the medical industry can obtain a fully developed deep hole gun drilling system for creating the holes in trauma nails.
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NR Engineering, a Lancashire-based precision component subcontractor, has invested in a CUT 20P wire EDM machine from GF AgieCharmilles.
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Precision machining subcontractor Dawson Precision Components (DPC) was approached by Surgical Innovations when it needed a batch of precise surgical components machined at very short notice.
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Plalite is a supplier of high quality precision machined components, based in the south east of England, with an extensive plant list including simultaneous 5-axis machining centres, 7-axis turning and wire EDM technology.
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As a specialist provider of deep hole drilling and gundrilling services, Hone-All Precision is well aware of the challenge posed when angled holes are required to break into one another.
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An Oxfordshire based company is using the rapid injection-moulding services of Proto Labs, Protomold, to help its airline customers minimise the amount of time their aircraft are on the ground for annual maintenance.
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