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Strategic Business Unit

Compressor Airfoils

Description

Precision machining of engine ready airfoils, including ECM and conventional milling and grinding.

Materials

Stainless steels, nickel alloys, aluminium

Principal markets

Industrial gas turbine
Aircraft, helicopter and tank engine

Capacity

Compressor blades from 0.5" to 20" overall length
Variable guide vanes and IGVs to 30"
Hot section blades to 30"
Run size from 50 to 10,000 pieces

Technology

Broaching
High speed CNC milling
Turning
Creep feed grinding
CBN grinding
Barfeed electrochemical milling
FPI and MPI non-destructive testing
Peening and vibratory surface conditioning
Chemical passivation
Closed loop CMM controlled DNC

Facilities

7 broaches
24 vertical machining centres
4 horizontal machining centres
4 lathes
5 creep feed grinders
3 CBN grinders
5 electrochem milling machines
Conveyorised FPI/MPI line
2 peening machines
8 CMM
Root feed grinding

Accreditations

ISO9002, NADCAP
GE, Honeywell, US army

Fan blades (Machined) for the Aerospace market
Compressor airfoils (Machined) for the Aerospace market
Engine structural components (Machined) for the Aerospace market
Turbine airfoils (Machined) for the Aerospace market
IGT Compressor airfoils (Machined) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Turbine airfoils (Machined) for the Industrial gas turbine market
IGT Compressor blades (Machined) for the Industrial gas turbine market
Turbine blades (Machined) for the Aerospace market