Thermal deburring specialist names sales manager

Thermal deburring specialist, Deburring Centre, has appointed Martin Bridges as sales and marketing manager to educate the engineering market on the benefits of thermal deburring.

Deburring Centre, based in Poole and the UK specialists in thermal deburring, have appointed a new sales and marketing manager.

Paddy House, the managing director, said: "We have grown the business over the last 10 years and found ourselves in the position where we couldn't keep up with the new enquiries.

We wanted a client handler who could educate the market as well." Martin Bridges has been appointed.

He has a 30 year track record in marketing and communications.

Bridges commented that he had often worked with niche markets and for the last six years have headed a team dedicated to customer handling.

"I saw three challenges with Deburring Centre 1- To give existing customers more support, 2 - To find new customers requiring our services and 3 - To educate the engineering market on the benefits of thermal deburring, and to some engineers to reveal that TEM exists at all." Thermal deburring or the Thermal Energy Method (TEM) to give it it's original name was developed in the States back in the 1960s.

Although not widely known the process itself is very simple - any material with a large surface area to mass ratio ie burrs, loose material or flash are removed by oxidising when their temperature exceeds the metal's ignition point.

These burrs 'burn' for approx 20 milliseconds until the temperature drops dramatically when the heat safely dissipates into the main body of the component.

This is a unique, guaranteed way of removing all sharp edges and burrs, especially in awkward and inaccessible places where the traditional methods of hand deburring or automatic processes either miss or are ineffectual.

"I was impressed with its simplicity and unique properties," explained Bridges, "And the fact that it saves money and guarantees removal means that it was a marketing man's dream product.

On top of that, Deburring Centre is the only sub contractor in the UK offering this service so I was really eager to promote it with all my skills and experience.

I'm very much looking forward to talking with groups of engineers who have heard very little of its benefits." The company has serviced the hydraulic industry mainly which was the background of the two directors.

The high safety issues required mean that often thermally deburred parts are stipulated on drawings.

Deburring Centre offers a free deburring service for sample parts and provide a full analysis report to go with it.

'The easiest way to prove its abilities is to demonstrate it - which we are keen to do, said Bridges.

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