Henton Engineering Installs 5-Axis Milling Machine
This investment will be used to produce aerospace components, gas turbines and other energy applications.
Posted: July 24, 2015
Henton Engineering Ltd (Coventry, UK), machining and fine grinding specialists that are part of the Nasmyth Group, has invested in an additional Mazak 5-axis milling machine at its Hinckley plant in Leicestershire. The extra capacity and efficiency that this investment has created will be utilized primarily to produce component parts for the aerospace industry, gas turbines and for other applications within the energy sector.
This machine shop specializes in the production of large, complex, sectioned ring and prismatic components, typically in the 200 mm to 2 m range, used in the aerospace, space, oil and gas and other precision engineering sectors. The shop has the expertise and capability to produce parts in aluminium, titanium, nimonic and stellite as well as other exotic and high temperature alloys and is one of the 12 precision engineering businesses that comprise the Nasmyth Group, which provides a full range of precision machining, welding and assembly, and surface treatment services in integrated and practical solutions to the specific business and product requirements of its customers.
The chairman and chief executive officer of Nasmyth Group, Peter Smith, commented, “This new investment in Henton Engineering is part of an ongoing program of strategic investment designed to ensure that we have the resources and the technologies needed to meet customers’ needs across all of our global markets.”
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