Now regarded as one of the UK’s leading subcontract engineering business, it is difficult to believe that North Shields based, Chirton Engineering Ltd was established as recently as 2003. From relatively modest beginnings, the company has enjoyed a meteoric rise to prominence over the past 12 …
Over recent years, a wide range of advanced machine tools have been developed to help satisfy global aerospace manufacturing industry’s requirement to produce parts faster than ever before. Although these innovative machines manufacture complex components within much faster cycle times, often,…
The global aerospace manufacturing industry is renowned for administering the highest standards of quality control and for utilising detailed inspection and testing systems. The employment of skilled staff, the use of the best available inspection and testing equipment plus the close relationships w…
There comes a time when older inspection equipment gets to the stage where its performance threatens to create a bottleneck in production. This was the situation reached with a 10-year-old Vision Measuring System at Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells (JMFC) in the fuel cell component manufacturing facility …
Mitutoyo UK recently completed the installation of the company’s largest ever Coordinating Measuring Machine sold in the UK. The Crysta-Apex C CMM (Measuring Volume - 2000x4005x2005mm x,y,z) enables Express Engineering to undertake the rapid, accurate inspection of large Oil & Gas componen…