Midlands Aerospace Companies 2013 2014

Kennametal UK Ltd
Pensnett Trading Estate
PO Box 29
Kingswinford
West Midlands
United Kingdom
DY6 7NP
t: 01384 401000
w: www.kennametal.com
From lightweight composite materials to exotic alloys,
Kennametal is committed to reducing risks and costs
in the manufacture of aerospace and defence components.
We partner with our customers to implement
standard and customised cutting tool solutions with
minimum cost per part and high repeatability in mind.
Kennametal has unique capabilities and resources to
cover the total manufacturing equation from roughing
to automated deburring and finishing. Try our best-inclass
technologies and services that are used today by
our customers to deliver up to 30% cost reduction
and 60% cycle time reduction.
Clive Brittain
e: clive.brittain@kennametal.com
Kyocera Unimerco Tooling Limited
Nanscawen Road
Fradley Park Industrial Estate
Fradley
Staffordshire
United Kingdom
WS13 8LH
t: 01543 267777
w: www.kyocera-unimerco.co.uk
Global manufacturer and distributor of high-performance
standard and customised tools for your
industry. Reducing your costs is our specialty;
optimized tooling solutions for the machining of
applications within many typical aerospace segments,
such as airframes, avionics and missiles, aerostructure,
control systems and aero engines; wide range
of advanced, customized tools for the aerospace
industry, for example veined tools, PCD tipped tools
and solid carbide tools; we give you access to an
extensive range of high-precision chucks suitable for
any situation; with RE•NEW tool maintenance your
old tools become as good as new - or even better.
Efficient tool management gives you complete control
over tool consumption and reduces the costs related
to procurement and processing.
Jason Chodynicki
e: jcc@unimerco.com
LB Foster Materials Handling
43 Wenlock Way
Troon Industrial Area
Leicester
Leicestershire
United Kingdom
LE4 9HU
t: 0116 276 1691
w: www.conveyors.co.uk
CI Logistics are one of the UK’s largest suppliers of
materials handling and storage solutions. Our offices
and 16,000 square feet of manufacturing space are
based in Leicester. Products supplied by CI Logistics
are: overhead conveyors; telescopic boom loaders, van
loaders, flexible conveyor systems etc; belt conveyors
including belt bends, spirals and merges etc; powered
roller, gravity roller, transfers etc; modular slat and
chain conveyor; mezzanine platforms; storage racking
and shelving. Services available include: technical sales
support; in-house design; in-house control systems;
manufacturing facilities; project management; installation;
after sales service including spares and service.
Adrian Pryce
e: adrian@conveyors.co.uk
MA Ford Europe Ltd
Unit 38, Royal Scot Road
Pride Park
Derby
Derbyshire
United Kingdom
DE24 8AJ
t: 01332 267960
w: www.maford.com
Supplier of high performance solid carbide milling and
drilling tools to the aerospace industry. From its European
stock and technical support centre M.A. Ford
Europe can advise customers of the best component
machining strategy from a supplied model through to
producing sample programmes along with estimated
cycle times. This process using the most up to date
versions of CAD/CAM software and high performance
tooling/cutting data can drastically reduce
customers’ cycle times and hence costs.
Stuart Smith
e: sales@mafordeurope.com
Mills CNC Limited
Units 2 & 3
Tachbrook Link
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
United Kingdom
CV34 6SN
t: 01926 736736
w: www.millscnc.co.uk
Mills CNC, established over 38 years ago, are the
exclusive distributor of Doosan CNC Machine Tools
in the UK and Ireland. Located in a modern 36,000sq
ft facility in the Midlands, Mills CNC specialise in
providing technical engineering solutions to a wide
customer base in all industry sectors. Delivering in
excess of 300 machines every year, Mills employ over
30 engineers to provide an industry leading service,
spares and training support organisation to over 1,500
individual customers with more than 4,000 CNC machine
tool installations. Doosan machines are designed
and manufactured by the machine tool division of
Doosan Infracore.
Nick Frampton
e: nframpton@millscnc.co.uk
Mitsubishi Materials UK
Mitsubishi House
Galena Close, Amington Heights
Tamworth
Staffordshire
United Kingdom
B77 4AS
t: 01827 312312
w: www.mitusbishicarbide.com
Mitsubishi Materials UK is an advanced materials &
tools business. The entire production process of every
tool is carried out in-house – from raw material
selection to the end product – therefore, we offer
our customers optimised solutions that derive from
our leading carbide technology. Mitsubishi tools are
created for a vast range of applications; our drills and
milling tools are used extensively in the aerospace and
automotive sectors, for example. Making full use of
our knowledge in the areas of cutting materials and
coatings, we constantly improve our successful products
by introducing new technologies and expanding
our portfolio.
Maria Martin
e: mmartin@mitsubishicarbide.co.uk
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