Case Studies

Task Engineering has built a reputation for machining complex components for a range of industries, with batch sizes ranging from one-off to a thousand-off. However, core to its business is the range of components manufactured for group company Crane Electronics, a specialist in delivering solutions for torque management and control ...

Traditional manufacturing covers many things, a particular industry may be traditional in one part of the country, a method of making products may also be traditional. B&G Lock & Tool Co complies with both those definitions of traditional. Based in Willenhall in the Black Country, it is now one of the few remaining lockmakers in an

Plymouth-based MSubs is a manufacturer of manned and unmanned subsea and surface vehicles with customers ranging from wealthy individuals who buy their products purely for pleasure and the world's navies who use them for more serious pastimes such as remote mine detection, systems checking and covert operations. The submarines manufactured

Turning compressed buffalo hide, drilling and taper cutting opposed elliptical forms in pure copper and brass, are a far cry from normal machine tool operations. But two recent installations by XYZ Machine Tools is not only enabling the UK's only manufacturer of soft hammers to maintain its high orders of quality and safety in use, but the

There are cameras and screens everywhere in the 2,500 ft² facility used by Steve Nash who runs his specialist security equipment supply firm on his own where he makes full use of his ability in designing, developing and assembling most of his own products. However, what has become key in his one-man operation is his capability to machine ...

Automated machine tools make easy work of what were once labour intensive and demanding tasks. Added to which, running for hours unattended and under 'lights out' conditions ensures the maximum return on expensive investments. But what if a malfunction were to cause a fire? Not only is expensive machinery now at risk but the building and ...

In less than ten years Chirton Engineering Ltd has invested more than £2 million in new machine tools. Not bad going for a subcontract business started on a shoestring by a former machinist and works manager made redundant when his employer sold his engineering business to fund his retirement. "I was 40 at the time with a mortgage and ...