Precision engineers seeking metal heat treatment and PVD coatings will see an expanded offering from Wallwork Group (
www.wallworkht.co.uk) at
Advanced Engineering 2018 (Stand Q6) taking place 31 October and 1 November.
During the past year, a new Newcastle facility has been fully integrated into the group, its Cambridge site has increased its vacuum brazing capacity with an additional furnace (and gained further Rolls-Royce accreditations), while the company’s Birmingham facility has increased its aluminium processing capacity.
Howard Maher, group sales manager, said: “The 12 months since the last show have been all about meeting rising demand and customer expectations. With added reach in the North East and Scotland, existing and new customers there now get an even faster turnround on orders.
"Capacity for processing aluminium at our Bury headquarters was being stretched, and it made sense to expand capacity at Birmingham to provide an even faster service for the Midlands and the South. Vacuum brazing capacity again was under pressure, so adding a new furnace at Cambridge will meet rising demand there.”
The Wallwork Group has also installed a new fully accredited mechanical testing facility in Cambridge, so it no longer has to rely on external testing.
Running tensile, compression and hardness tests on materials and components before and after heat treatment is now much quicker, and the data is used to refine existing metal heat treatment processes and component design.
The company has also developed a PVD coating that is an evironmentally safe replacement for hard chromium plating and meets REACH regulations in the European Union and OSHA in the USA.