Five-axis machining Aerospace supplier's new factory focuses on complex aero-engine components

摘要

Wteston EU, a Tier One supplier to the aerospace industry, recently opened a new factory (in Earby, Lancashire) that is devoted to the five-axis machining of the root form and tip shrouds of compressor blades produced from aluminium-alloy, titanium-alloy and nickel-alloy forgings. The new unit is close to the company's headquarters (and hitherto main production centre) in Foulridge, Lancashire, from where all 21 Hermle machining centres - some three-quarters of the company's total number of five-axis machines - were relocated to Earby between March and November last year.