Forging plant also completely machines parts

UK forgings company also machines forgings in small and medium batches and employs CAD/CAM die-making, reverse engineering and simulation and CNC machining.

WHT offers forgings in carbon steels, aluminium bronze and aluminium and has acquired particular expertise in forging high-performance alloys such as Monel, Alloy 625 and Hastelloy.

It can supply the forgings as fully machined forged parts specializing in small to medium batches: from as little as 10 pieces up to 10000.

The company is ideally suited to support low volume production and repair and maintenance programmes.

With full CAD/CAM die-making, simulation package and CNC-equipped machine shop for fast response it can reverse-engineer legacy parts.

At the UK's Subcon 2008 subcontracting exhibition at the NEC, Birmingham, April 22-24, WHT will be promoting its increased capacity in forging design resulting from the addition of another design seat on its Pro-Engineer CAD/CAM software license.

The company told manufacturingtalk that the investment will improve the its ability to produce 3D models at the enquiry stage and provide customers with a stronger visual concept of new product design.

This also reduces lead-time when orders are placed since much of the engineering and approvals have already been agreed.

WHT will also be showing on the stand examples of how computer simulation of the forging process predicts the likelihood of common production defects and allows its engineers to improve die design and shorten lead-times for new-product introduction.

* Safety critical parts - WHT recently won a contract from Bel Valves of Newcastle on our ability to rapidly produce new dies and tools and forge safety critical parts to NORSOK standards thereby meeting a critical deadline in serving their customer.

* CNC machining - WHT recently purchased its principal sub-contract machinist and moved it onto its site at Willenhall, West Midlands, so that it can now offer a full in-house service for purchasers of fully machined forged parts as well as bar-turned parts for automotive and other industries In addition to having some unusual forging shapes and components in high performance alloy-steels for the petrochemical industry on the stand, WHT will also be featuring some of the 'romantic' applications where it have made replica parts for restoring Vintage Bentleys and Black Shadow Motorcycles.

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