The company’s machine shop is equipped with vertical boring, horizontal deep-hole boring, honing, milling, turning and drilling machines, as well as balancing and sawing facilities.
According to Somers Forge, it is the first opportunity for subcontract machining on the largest horizontal deep-hole borer in Europe, offering boring lengths up to 20 m. The latest subcontract services will give customers more flexibility without the capital requirements and associated maintenance costs.
Somers is able to process a range of materials, including titanium, nickel-based super alloys, carbon steels, low-alloy steels, stainless steels and bronze alloys.
With heat treatment now being offered as a subcontract service, customers can access a wealth of metallurgical expertise to meet a range of international standards. Annealing, normalising, hydrogen diffusion, tempering, water quenching, oil quenching, stress relieving and post-weld heat treatment are all available.
Some £2 million was invested by the company last year on equipment and people to further improve capability, capacity and delivery. Somers also saw a 15% increase in the workforce during 2018, with this set to rise again this year. Best known for serving the defence industry, Somers operates in 11 markets and has facilities in both the UK and USA.
