Casting Services

Industrial friction materials produce prototype and small batch production of precision machined components in a variety of materials with a variety of finishes.

Our precision engineering department offers milled parts, turned parts, c.n.c engineering, surface grinding, wire erosion, and spark erosion. All of our parts are 100% inspected. We can provide original certificates for all of our materials including carbon steels, stainless steel, brass, copper, tool steel, titanium, aluminum (aluminum).

We are able to offer 3 axes CNC Milling with a tool magazine capacity of 24 tools. The largest of these CNC milling machines has a working area of 710mm x 450mm x 500mm and utilises the Siemens 810D Shopmill Control, reducing the downtime for changeovers. Batch sizes can be from 1 to 10,000 or more if required! We have high volume bar fed CNC Turning capabilities as well as conventional turning. The CNC Turning has a capacity of ø300mm x 550mm maximum turned length with a 1000mm bar feed system. Using the 12 station live tooling facility our CNC machines can produce complex shapes including hexagonal, flats, PCDs, keyways and cross drilled holes at high throughput with fast cycle times and scope for 24 hour unsupervised operation. They are equally well suited to smaller batch work and prototype samples. We offer a broad range of precision engineering services which include conventional milling, conventional turning, surface grinding, routing and general jig & fixture assembly work. We can erode all conductive materials from aluminum through to hardened tool steels, solid carbide & polycrystalline diamond materials. We’re specialists in processing rare-earth, solid carbide and polycrystalline diamond materials.

Using wire erosion can deliver accuracy between 0.004mm and 0.040mm faster and more economically, and with greater guarantees of accuracy than conventional electrical discharge machining techniques.

CNC control of our five wire erode machines coupled with sophisticated computer design technology enables the most complex, awkward or three-dimensional and advanced tapered profiles to be processed, allowing us to rapidly deliver exactly what our customers require.

Aluminium & Copper based alloys, Iron & Steel castings ranging from 1 gram to over 1 tonne.

Precision Sand Castings in airset moulds as well as traditional & very cost effective greensand moulding.
This process is suitable for all types of casting alloys and ranging from 1 offs to several hundred off.
This process can be used for prototyping of diecasting or investment casting as it is fast with low cost tooling.
Investment Castings in almost all casting alloys to very high accuracies which eliminates or reduces machining to very low levels.
We can supply low cost silicon moulds for samples or low volume parts or higher volumes using metal tooling.
Full traceability & certification available.
Diecasting, either Gravity or Pressure in Aluminium, Zinc & some Copper based alloys for high accuracy and high volume requirements.
Centrifugal & Shell mouldings available in most alloys for the specialist requirements.

• Full patternmaking & tooling manufactured whichever casting process is used.
• Existing patterns & tooling can be used if available reducing costs of moving suppliers.
• 24 hour turnaround available for the urgent job with no tooling costs if a sample is provided.
• This sample may be a worn out or broken part or simply a sample of what is required.
• We can use this to produce a low quantity of sand castings, even adding material where necessary to allow for machining allowances & shrinkage.
• This saves the cost of a new pattern if only a very few castings are required and can be delivered within 24 hours of receiving the sample part.
• We are a fully independent UK supplier, not tied to the restrictions of one UK foundry, so we are able to give you at least three competitive quotes where necessary.

We are regularly supplying castings for Aircraft engine machining centres, Formula 1 hospitality, Rail restoration projects, Fork lift trucks, Motorcycle & car restoration, Nuclear power stations, High street Boutiques just to name just a few.

We have customers who just require a 1 off casting and others who have regular scheduled orders, all are catered for.

Full machining, conventional & CNC, fabrication, polishing & finishing available.