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Bodycote extends thermal
spray expertise
Bodycote has announced the acquisition of three UK companies, Plasma & Thermal Coatings Ltd, Greenhey Engineering Services and NPE
Innotek Ltd, which join the Metallurgical Coatings division of Bodycote’s Thermal Processing Group.
Plasma & Thermal Coatings operates from Newport, UK, and provides plasma spray, HVOF, arc spray and flame spray coatings. The facility is Nadcap
accredited for the thermal spray coatings of aerospace components and was the first UK thermal spray company to achieve the environmental
management standard ISO 14001.
Greenhey Engineering Services offers state-of-the-art thermal spray capability from its facility in Skelmersdale, UK. Additional services also include
ceramic coatings and the machine shop is equipped with the latest CNC lathes and milling machines, together with grinding and finishing capability.
NPE Innotek Ltd is a precision engineering company based in Neath, UK, offering precision tooling and machining solutions to a wide range of
industries. NPE manufactures tools and equipment in hard metal, all grades of tools and high speed steel (including powder metallurgy steels) and
advanced materials to customer specification.
“We believe these acquisitions further enhance the expertise and range of services provided by Bodycote’s Metallurgical Coatings division across the
UK.”
New Orbital spin on an old
riveting story
TIL takes
It is 116 years since the Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet Company (B&TR)
sold its first impact rivet setting machine and now an Orbital Spin Riv- lead from
eter has been added to its extensive range of manufacturing solutions.
Operating virtually silently, the machine can perform a wide variety of
tasks and with suitable tools can flare, flange, join or swage.
‘The Apprentice’
B & TR says that spin riveting is far quieter than general impact riveting
and tool changes and set up times are much faster.
The adjustment of timing and the force and
stroke length of the riveter is precise and
Following the successful establishing our own
stepless. Additional tooling enables
implementation of a Apprenticeship Training
repeatable settings for multiple
‘Programme of Continuous Programme. As a start-point, we
applications on the same machine.
Improvement’ at Tooling have selected five production
The Orbital Spin Riveter is of rigid
International Limited, the operatives who have shown
construction and suitable for single,
Company has taken loyalty to our business and
multi-point, or multi-spindle applications,
something of a lead from Sir certain attributes that would
for fast and effective spin riveting with Alan Sugar and introduced its support their further learning.
precise control and gentle deformation. own Apprenticeship Training Each will, on a rotation basis,
The tooling is also available in carbide-tip. Programme. shadow five Mentors who enjoy
Bench mounting is standard in the
“At TIL we employ some the skills and disciplines that we
range, but a pedestal mount is also
highly-skilled engineers in such need to share”
available. Special tooling accessories to
areas as tool-making, die- “We are supporting this
reach inaccessible parts can be provided
finishing, engraving, scheme with external training at
together with tool-locking devices for
maintenance, etc. These key various levels of NVQ & BTEC and
notching or marking. An optional pressure
skills are crucial to the future are working closely with
pad is also available to hold component
success and longevity of our Business Link WM and the EEF
assemblies during riveting.
business,” explains managing Technology Centre in Tyseley. We
The Orbital Spin Riveter is generally operated
with manually placed rivets but in conjunction
director, Richard Woods. “Sadly have also just recruited our first
with other companies in the Aylesbury
these skills are less readily Young Apprentice from the EEF,
Automation group, located
available in the market than Greg Telfer. Greg will be released
under one roof, the
they once were and new for one day each week for the
Bifurcated & Tubular Rivet
engineers, qualified in these next four years to attend the EEF
Company can provide
disciplines, are increasingly and will move across all areas of
systems which are fully
difficult to find.” our R&D, tool-room, production,
automatic with hopper or bowl
“We thought seriously about quality, inspection & mainte-
fed rivet supplies combined with a how best to overcome this and nance. We are looking to recruit
robot handling process. came up with the idea of a second Apprentice very soon”
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