The expansion of the company resulted in the construction of a new purpose designed facility in October 2000, and further investment in CNC equipment. The building has a machine shop with laboratory conditions, a dedicated area for the assembly of instrumentation utilising binocular work stations, and also a separate inspection department that incorporates the latest Mitutoyo metrology equipment.

Milling

• Bridgeport VMC600 Digital CNC Machining Centre with speed indexer. X=600mm Y=410mm Z=520mm, 22 station tool changer, 12000rpm spindle, rigid tapping.
• Bridgeport VMC600 Digital CNC Machining Centre. X=600mm Y=410mm Z=520mm, 22 station tool changer, 10000rpm spindle, rigid tapping.
• Bridgeport VMC308 CNC Machining Centre with speed indexer. X=450mm Y=310mm Z=410mm, 8 station tool changer, 4000rpm spindle.
• Miyano MTV-T310 CNC Drilling Tapping Centre. X=500mm Y=380mm Z=250mm, 15 station tool turret, 16000rpm spindle.
• Bridgeport BR2J Manual Turret Mill. With power feed and DRO’s
• Sixis Precision Manual Milling Machine. Horizontal and Vertical Heads, 6000rpm spindle, 100mm x 100mm table.

 Turning

• High Speed Drilling Machine with infinitely variable electronic motor up to 20,000rpm.
• Citizen L20-VII 10 Axis CNC Sliding Head Lathe with Sub Spindle and Iemca Bar Loader. Max Ø20.0mm, max length 200mm, C- axis, 4 driven tools on 3 axis, rigid tapping on 3 axis.
• Citizen B12-VI 5 Axis CNC Sliding Head Lathe with Sub Spindle and Iemca Bar Loader. Max Ø12.7mm, max length 135mm, 2 driven tools on 2 axis.
• Citizen B12-VI 5 Axis CNC Sliding Head Lathe with Sub Spindle and LNS Tryton Bar Loader. Max Ø12.7mm, max length 135mm, 2 driven tools on 2 axis.
• Hardinge Conquest GT CNC Super Precision Fixed Head Gang Tooling Lathe with Hydrafeed Bar Feed. Max Ø27.0mm bar fed (Ø50.8mm in step chuck), 2 driven tools on 2 axis.
• Hardinge Conquest GT CNC Super Precision Fixed Head Gang Tooling Lathe for 2^nd operation work. Max Ø27.0mm in collets (Ø50.8mm in step chuck), 2 driven tools on 2 axis.
• Hardinge Cobra 42 CNC Slant Bed Lathe with tailstock. Max Ø150.0mm. VDI 12 Station Turret.

In addition to the above we have:-

• 7 Schaublin 70  Precision Lathes for 2^nd Operation work with “dead length” headstocks. Max collet Ø13.0mm.
• 1 Schaublin 70  Precision Toolmakers Lathe. Max collet Ø13.0mm.
• 1 Schaublin 102  Precision Toolmakers Lathe. Max collet Ø20.0mm.

Metrology/Inspection:

• Mitutoyo Shadowgraph 10X and 50X
• Mitutoyo Co ordinate measuring machine with Geo-win software
• Hauser Optical measuring machine