Hone-All's honing investment ups material removal rates: boost competitiveness

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. The claim made by Sunnen for its honing machines is that they deliver twice the metal removal rate of other competing machines. And the machine at Hone-All also features the new 'tight bore' torque sensing feature, while auto stroke adjust also helps prevent tool breakage and bent drive shafts – even during unattended operation in 'tight bore' conditions. The end result of this, said Colin Rodney, is that the two new honing machines "are most definitely meeting and exceeding our expectations and, for the first time in a long while, we have honing capacity available and can be exceedingly competitive, due to the stock removal rates achieved on the new Sunnen machines". Although honing is the latest investment, the company offers a complete machining service at its fully refurbished 20,000 sq. ft. factory. This includes material procurement, deep hole boring, deep hole drilling, gundrilling, CNC honing, CNC turning and CNC milling. Co-Director Andrea Rodney added: "We have invested heavily over the years and we remain committed to delivering the best possible service to our customers. They will continue to benefit from the improvements we are making in our drive for world-class performance." Hone-All has recently successfully undergone its annual re-assessment of its SC21 Bronze status and is heading towards Silver status, targeting the 99.5-99.9% quality performance criterion required.