New Striko Furnaces

Hadleigh Castings places order for four new Striko UK Gas Fired, recuperative bale out furnaces. The furnaces will all be fully modulating, plc controlled. Two of the furnaces will replace existing, now aging units in our Gravity die shop, each with a 175Kg Capacity. The other two furnaces will be placed in our medium and large sand foundry moulding areas to give increased melting capacity. These will have a 250 Kg and 300Kg melting capacity. These new acquisitions represent Hadleigh Castings continued drive for improved process control combined with the need to reduce our energy consumption whilst also considering the environment.

Come See Us At DSEi 2011

We are pleased to announce that we will be exhibiting at DSEi 2011. Please come and visit us on stand No 1697 & 1699, for a chat about your future requirements.

Hadleigh Castings' World First Accreditation

Hadleigh Castings Ltd are proud to announce that we have been awarded the new IRIS quality accreditation (International Rail Industry Standard) and are the first Non Ferrous foundry in the world to have achieved it - 14 November 2009

Compressing the carbon footprint of Hadleigh Castings

THE BUSINESS CASE:- The foundry is heavily dependent on a regular supply of high quality compressed air, produced using compressors which consume large amounts of increasingly expensive electricity. The decision to update the system with a more efficient alternative was made for the company when the largest compressor fell over. With an interest-free loan from the Carbon Trust of £30,000, Hadleigh Castings replaced the fixed speed compressor with a variable speed option, ensuring that energy is not wasted. Installed at the end of 2008, the new compressor is on target to save the company 78.92 tonnes of CO2 a year, reducing the energy bill by £11,330 – based on today’s prices. THE TECHNOLOGY:- Hadleigh Castings previously had six compressors of various sizes, three of which were controlled by specialised software to generate the right amount of compressed air. A certain amount of power was inevitably wasted as the levels could not be altered on individual machines. Three fixed-speed rotary screw air compressors were replaced with one large variable speed machine. The company also held onto several smaller compressors to top up the air supply if necessary. So far these have not been needed, as the single compressor provides all the compressed air required for the foundry, and the supply can be precisely controlled. As well as significantly reducing the amount of electricity used by the company, the new compressor is quieter, will need to be serviced far less frequently than the old machines, and delivers a much better quality of air to point of use. On the back of this success, the company is exploring the financial cost and projected energy savings involved in replacing at least one of its furnaces.

See us at MEDTEC 2009

See Hadleigh Castings Ltd at MEDTEC 2009 25-26th March NEC Birmingham

Additional CNC Turning Capacity

We are pleased to announce that we have recently installed additional CNC turning capacity in the form of a Leadwell T-8 CNC Turning Centre. The T-8 has 12 Tool stations, a swing capacity of 670mm and a spindle speed of 3500rpm.

Hadleigh Castings invests in further new technology

We are pleased to confirm that we have taken delivery of a further Measuring arm to compliment our existing CMM's, within our inspection area. The Roma Sigma series arm extends to a length of 2.5 metres & has a single point accuracy of 40 microns. Its primary role will be for confirming/ aligning new sample castings produced from cad machined tooling to the master cad model for FAI purposes

New High-Speed Machining Centre

We have also placed an order of a further new high-speed machining centre, due to arrive in early summer 2008 to further enhance our already comprehensive facility & increase our capacity. The machining centre is a Horizontal, twin pallet, Doosan HP5100, and takes a 500mm x 500mm Pallet. The Spindle Speed is 14,000 RPM

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