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Edward Lowton
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Heat treatment and hard coatings
04 October 2018
Advanced and precision engineers seeking metal heat treatment and PVD coatings will see a much expanded offering from Wallwork Group at the 2018 Advanced Engineering show. A new Newcastle facility is now fully integrated into the group. Cambridge has increased vacuum brazing capacity with an additional furnace and gained further Rolls-Royce accreditations while, at Birmingham, more Aluminium processing has been added.
Howard Maher, group sales manager, explains: “Capacity for processing Aluminium at our Bury HQ, was being stretched and it made sense to expand this at Birmingham to provide an even faster service to customers in the midlands and south. Vacuum brazing capacity again was under pressure so adding a new furnace at Cambridge will meet rising customer demand there.”
The company has added new fully accredited mechanical testing facility and so no longer has to rely on external testing. Running tensile, compression and hardness tests on materials and components prior to and post heat treatment, is now quicker and feeds data into refining existing metal heat treatment processes and component design.
The company will be showing its PVD coating, a full HCP replacement that meets REACH in the EU and OSHA in the USA. Stand Q6
