- 18th January 2016
- Exhibitor Announcements, Manufacturing, Southern
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Machine shop casts and fabricates
Operating foundries and a welding facility alongside its machine shop in Ashford, Kent, Southern Manufacturing exhibitor M J Allen aims to provide an integrated casting, machining, fabricating and assembly service.
It supplies fully machined castings and fabrications to defence, medical, marine, machine tool, and automotive industries in the UK, Europe and North America and is certified to ISO9001, 14001 and 18001. The ferrous foundry produces high quality grey iron and SG iron castings to 3,000kg and has expertise in complex core assembly work. The non-ferrous foundry produces precision sand castings in aluminium and bronze alloys to 1,000kg for the most demanding applications. An aluminium gravity die foundry enables volume casting to 50kg.
The foundries have in-house facilities for heat treatment, chemical and mechanical analysis, x-ray, dye penetrant and ultrasonic inspection and pressure testing. The machine shop operates CMM inspection and jig boring in temperature controlled environments for the tightest of tolerances. Recent CNC additions include a Doosan twin pallet, horizontal machining centre (pictured) and Johnford bridge mill, covering machining in X-axis of 3.1m, Y-axis 1.8m and Z-axis 1.6m.
There are also paint and assembly facilities at the Ashford site, allowing for sourcing of machined and finished castings and fabrications of almost any size and volume with a single order.
See MJ Allen on stand F134 or go to www.mjallen.co.uk
