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Allspeeds
continues investment to drive growth. 
The fleet of CNC machinery at Allspeeds’ Accrington
manufacturing facility has been further enhanced with
the addition of a new Doosan CNC horizontal machining
centre.
With a spindle speed of up to 14,000 rpm the 5100 features
an automatic tool changer capable of holding 60 tools
and changing tools in 1.5 seconds!
Keith Elliot, Engineering Director, said, “The
Doosan HP5100 horizontal machining centre has increased
our effective capacity by more than one third, and alleviated
a production bottleneck that has been a regular problem
to our manufacturing lead times. The size, spindle speed,
and high volume swarf management make it particularly
efficient at handling out aluminium jack and cutter
products.”
Praising the team at Allspeeds, Keith said, “The
Allspeeds management team are extremely grateful to
the production team for their part in this development.
They have unlocked the potential of this new asset and
achieved excellent results in a very short time.”
36ft sucker
rod pumps start their journey!
Destined for a customer in Syria, the 40ft
boxes containing 20 x 36ft barrels
and sucker rod pumps were safely loaded on to their
transport at Allspeeds’
head office in Lancashire.
Too large to be shipped in the hold, these boxes will
be transported on the deck
of the freight ship as they travel to Syria. The boxes
will first travel to Belgium,
before loading on deck and making their way onto the
high seas!
Due to enhanced manufacturing development, Allspeeds
(through the Millingford brand) can now offer 36ft barrels,
an increase on the 24ft products available
until now.
Mike Holyhead, Allspeeds’ MD said, “We
have seen an increased demand for our Millingford products
recently and we are very proud that our customer has
chosen Millingford to manufacture their pumps and barrels.
I was recently told by a potential client that they
had borrowed a Millingford Pump to run tests alongside
a competitor’s product. They were very impressed
by the longer life obtained from the Millingford pump
estimated at a ten times greater lifetime. We have been
greatly encouraged by this endorsement of the quality
of our products.”
Investment
Allspeeds continue to invest in machine tools.
The latest addition is a PUMA 2000SY, a multi-functional
turning centre that boasts superb accuracy, and a wide
variety of unmanned operation functions to further increase
productivity.
The PUMA offers the following benefits:
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Y axis, live tooling with full milling
capability. |
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Subspindle (6000rpm, to complete the second operation
without
handling the component). |
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Magazine bar feed (1 metre, max dia. 65mm). |
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Parts catcher. |
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Swarf conveyor. |
Manufacturing Director, Keith Elliot explained ‘The
PUMA is the right machine for Allspeeds. The PUMA will
relieve bottlenecks around the factory and as a result
lead times will be reduced.’
Charity
Walk
Greg Pope MP recently walked the breadth of Nicaragua
to raise money for the British Heart Foundation and
the Peace and Hope Trust, which works with some of the
poorest people in Central America.
The 140 mile trek from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic
Coast included climbing Mount Concepcion, a live volcano
over 5000 ft high!
Allspeeds supported Greg’s campaign and invited
Greg to visit the new office
and factory.
Managing Director, Mike Hollyhead commented ‘Well
done to Greg for completing the trek and raising over
£5000 for charity.’
New Engineer
A recent addition to the Allspeeds team is Darren Pilkington,
who will be working within the Engineering department
as a Staff Engineer.
Darren completed his apprenticeship 10 years ago and
until recently was working as a Machine Shop Supervisor
where his duties included programming and setting horizontal
and vertical machining centres on 3, 4 and 5 axis machines
using Fanuc, Heidenhain and Seimens operating systems,
whilst overseeing the workshop as a whole.
Engineering Director, Rodney Sleigh stated ‘
With more and more demand from our customers to provide
solutions to their problems we are excited to add someone
with Darren’s skills and knowledge to our Engineering
department resource.’

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