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Story added 09 September 2009.

Barker Collins of Sheffield – the UK’s premier sub-contract engineer – has expanded its large-capacity CNC milling capability with the installation of a Soraluce FL-8000 travelling column, floor-type milling centre to reinforce its position as a mainline supplier of workpieces for blue chip customers in industry sectors such as oil and gas, power generation, earth moving, nuclear, defence, transport, minerals and mining, as well as excavation and construction.
 
The new cnc machine, supplied by Ward CNC, complements an already formidable portfolio of Asquith Butler, Correa and Marufuku CNC milling centres, as well as CNC horizontal borers from Doosan, Giddings & Lewis, Kuraki and Sacem.
 
Indeed, Barker Collins hosts the UK’s largest installed base of Doosan borers in Europe with two DB130C and three DB130CX models having X, Y, Z and W axis travels of 3,000 mm by 2,000 mm by 1,600 mm by 700 mm, respectively.
 
All feature Renishaw RMP60 probing for workpiece identification and datuming, program ion, inspection and generation of inspection reports to integrate with the measuring routines from the DEA co-ordinate measuring machine, which has X, Y and Z axes capacities of 3,000 mm by 1,200 mm by 1,000 mm.
 
According to managing director Chris Carter, the Soraluce’s floor plate working surface area of 8,000 mm by 1,500 mm and X, Y and Z axes of 7,500 mm by 1,400 mm by 1,000 mm, as well as a machining head capable of 1,000 deg positioning/movement, will comfortably accommodate the extra-long components such as whipstocks required by customers involved in offshore drilling.
 
These complement its established supply of oil and gas sector components like stabilisers, cans and reamers, pipeline tooling, pumps and valves and seabed fastening systems.
 
The continual investment strategy at the £4 million turnover operation in Chapeltown - over £5.5 million has been spent during the past five years – reflects the company’s ethos of ‘excellence through innovation’ to underpin its consistent supply of quality workpieces.
 
Chris Carter adds: “We’ve never professed to be, or wanted to be, the biggest sub-contractor in South Yorkshire – but we strive to continue to be the best. That’s why we continually invest.”

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