Sub-contractor invests and targets large precision work
Precision engineering sub-contract Barker Collins Engineering Ltd has set its sights on the niche market of large, precision parts and is investing to support this.
The Sheffield-based company was the subject of an MBO in 2003 and has since installed a CNC horizontal boring machine, a CNC gantry mill, a CNC universal ram-type milling machine and, most recently, two Doosan Daewoo ACE DB 130C horizontal boring machines from Mills Manufacturing Technology.
"We have made a conscious decision to focus our business on the manufacture of large complex parts for a quite diverse range of industries. However, to achieve in these sectors – we need (and rely upon) the very latest advanced machine tools available. The decision to invest in the two DB 130C machines is a case in point," says Chris Carter, managing director.
Barker Collins specialises in the manufacture of complex precision parts and components for marine, offshore, power generation, defence, petrochemical and other process industries.
