Below : The 160,000 sq . ft . factory extension on Inishowen Engineering ’ s seven-acre site in Drumfries . Below right : Laser cutting in progress on the BySprint 20-metre machine .
DIVERSIFY
FOCUS ON PRECISION ENGINEERING
“ The Irish subcontractor ’ s substantial investment allows it to leverage the advantages of high precision and diversify its customer base .”
Irish sheet metal fabrication and CNC machining subcontractor , Inishowen Engineering , dramatically increased the size of its production facility in County Donegal in 2019 . It followed an € 11 million investment in a new 160,000 sq . ft . factory , which opened on the company ’ s seven-acre site in Drumfries in early 2019 .
The award-winning custom metal fabrication company and subcontract metal manufacturing company offers precision sheet metal laser and gas profiling ; metal folding ; precision CNC machining ; sheet metal fabrication ; welding ; E-coating ; powder coating and assembly . It has been serving a range of industries since 1994 ( such as automotive , agricultural and materials handling ) offering sheet metal fabrication , metal design and integrated engineering services .
It also provides quick turnaround of metal prototypes using a full range of sheet metal fabrication techniques and technologies .
New machine tool purchases
AND SUPPLY
Inishowen Engineering invested € 30 million in factory expansion , including a three-machine fibre laser cutting cell .
The Bystronic BySprint fibre laser cutting machine for processing 20-metre stock at Inishowen Engineering . The storage towers are in the background .
As part of the expansion programme , which started in April 2017 , an extra € 19 million was spent on new machine tools , a pair of robotic welding stations and new finishing equipment including shot blasting booths , wet and powder painting lines and a nano pretreatment and electrophoretic coating facility .
In addition to the replacement of a CNC tube bender and a plasma cutting machine with more modern plant and the purchase of another large machining centre , other new machines on site include a 12m x 12m capacity , 6kW flat-bed fibre laser cutting centre that arrived in 2018 . It joined two 4 x 2m capacity models of similar power installed in 2015 and 2017 . All are BySprint Fiber Laser machines manufactured by Bystronic in Switzerland and supplied by Bystronic UK , Coventry .
Component parts and assemblies we are asked to produce are becoming larger so that customers can minimise welding when manufacturing their products
On-site from the same source are seven press brakes as well as a machine for CO 2 laser cutting of tube up to 305mm in diameter by 12,500mm long . Additionally , during the spring of 2019 , Bystronic supplied and
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