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News Release from: MCT | Subject: Micro-surface finishing - metals
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 August 2007
Micro-surface finishing reduces friction
Motorsport engine builder has invested in surface finishing equipment to offer micro-level finishing to reduce friction in components such as cam followers.
Menard Competition Technologies (MCT), a leading motorsport engine constructor, has invested in the micro-level finishing of parts - and is already being exploited by some of the world's foremost racing teams Roesler has supplied the equipment, which removes peaks and 'normalises' a surface - reduces friction - so vital in the motorsport environment
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 29 Jan 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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MCT said that customers benefit from reduced lead times, with the process helping the company to turn around parts, such as cam followers for NASCAR engines, extremely rapidly.
Roesler is the world's leading producer of surface finishing equipment and its research and development programmes have, in recent years, produced many processes now widely used across the world's 'high-tech' industries.
Manufacturing manager at Oxfordshire, UK-based MCT, Nigel Eames, explained: "Our commitment to delivering market-leading programmes for our clientbase means we are seeking, constantly, to improve our infrastructure and capabilities at the Leafield Technical Centre.
Our surface-finishing resources add to our ability to offer a total solution to customers, across the automotive, motorsport and aerospace sectors".
He concluded: "The process, which improves significantly upon grinding and takes super-finishing to a new level while also improving component 'life', utilises a ceramic, abrasive media.
This gives hardened steel engine components, such as cam followers, rocker arms, or any application where there is a metal to metal finish, a highly-polished finish, before the product is diamond like carbon-coated at the end of the process.".
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