UK milling machining contracts soar by 30%

Milling based machining contracts have soared by 30% for Stapleford, Nottingham based Hemlock Engineering helping to boost sales in the 2005 financial year to almost GBP 4 million.

Milling based machining contracts have soared by 30 per cent for Stapleford, Nottingham based Hemlock Engineering helping to boost sales in the 2005 financial year to almost GBP 4 million.

The growing order book has resulted in the installation of a further Haas VF2 vertical machining centre with four-axis capability to produce parts alongside three machining cells each comprising two Haas machining centres and a 100 tool, twin-pallet Kitamura horizontal machining centre.

Hemlock Engineering, under managing director Paul Cobb, provides a specialised machining service for moulding plates, printer frames, face plates and fascias largely destined for packaging, printer and electronic industries as well as upmarket hi-fi systems.

Some components are very complex, largely machined out of aluminium plates, with high degrees of flatness and parallelism and often upwards of 200 features on each part including holes, slots and milled profiles.

Tolerances can be as tight as 10 micron.

Says Paul Cobb: "Our strength is to provide a complete service to customers from raw material stockholding through to surface treatment and individual packing ready for direct to assembly line delivery.

By investing to achieve higher productivity we leave very little to chance by falling down on either quality or scheduled delivery.

I am sure these factors are proving attractive to customers and helping to increase our order book at such an outstanding rate.".

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