Inca Geometric to demonstrate engineering strength at Southern Manufacturing

The investment at the Chartham site, near Canterbury, included a Mazak-300C-II travelling column, vertical machining centre and a Dugard Eagle HMB-4 horizontal borer, each having full four-axis capability. Both machines complement another recent acquisition of a Dugard 400 heavy duty lathe and an upgrade to its large volume co-ordinate measuring machine that are installed alongside a wide range of turning, milling, boring and grinding equipment. Managing director Michael Cain explains: "The advantage Inca Geometric can pass on to customers is our high level of production and application expertise. This has been built up over a 50-year history in the design and development, build and supply of special purpose machine tools, assembly and test rigs as well as made-to-order multi-heads for drilling, boring and threading." During this progressive development of the business Inca Geometric supplied equipment worldwide to the likes of automotive, fuel injection, transmission, pump and valve, defence, leisure, oil and gas and general engineering sectors. Although the business focus today is the provision of a contract machining capability, Inca Geometric still maintains a special engineering service to customers involving re-tooling and re-engineering equipment. One of its strengths, through the flexibility of the company, is to provide holiday shut-down engineering services, and with the in-house 3-D design, fitting and large capacity machining, the company is able to co-ordinate multi-faceted turnkey, project requirements.