Following on from Rolls-Royce approval for Wallwork’s Manchester site, the group’s Cambridge plant has secured the aerospace company’s seal of approval for vacuum brazing, plasma nitriding and heat treatment.
These processes are in strong demand, and Wallwork is making a significant investment to ensure that it is in prime position to win new orders.
£1 million is being spent on the installation of a new Seco vacuum brazing furnace, along with two new Rübig and Eltro plasma nitriders that will more than double the Cambridge site’s nitriding capacity.
The two new nitriders are aerospace-specified units with a high-temperature capability. Being more versatile and energy-efficient than the equipment that they have replaced, they will also enable aerospace components to be processed more quickly.
Wallwork’s Cambridge site director (
www.wallworkht.co.uk), Simeon Collins said: “Receiving Rolls-Royce approval for these processes is essential to working with the company.
“It also gives confidence to all our customers that we can meet the exacting standards required by aerospace primes — and therefore other precision industries such as motor-sport and medical implant/devices.”
A 20% increase in orders is anticipated in the coming months, and it is hoped that two skilled jobs in the vacuum brazing cell will be created.
With locations in Cambridge, Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle, Wallwork offers a nation-wide service to the aerospace industry.