Laser ablation machine wins Winbro a Queen's Award for Enterprise

Winbro Group Technologies has received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for the development of the HSA5 laser ablation system.

The HSA5 (5-axis, high speed laser ablation) system is said to be the world’s first ‘Art to Part’ solution, integrating post-processing, ablation and inspection technologies within a single machine platform for the manufacture of complex shapes in turbine components.

Winbro started trading in 1992 and is now recognised as a global leader in providing manufacturing solutions to the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industries, based upon its core laser and high speed EDM cooling hole machining technologies as well as viper grinding and ECM machining processes. Winbro Group Technologies provides turnkey machining systems, services and manufactured components backed by extensive research and development in products and processes.

This is the second Queen’s Award received by the company.