PECM Issue 43 2020 | Page 149

The scope of its activities is far and wide and can include anything from safety critical components for aircraft and F1 cars to meshes and electronic connectors and even frames for designer glasses. steel, nickel alloys, copper, beryllium copper, phosphor bronze, brass and, thanks to groundbreaking new processes, aluminium, molybdenum, titanium, nitinol and elgiloy. All parts are developed and manufactured at its main site in Telford or at the company’s dedicated sister business, ACE Forming Limited, in Kingswinford. Ian Whateley, Managing Director, continued: “2020 is going to be a big year for our business and we’ve started by launching a new brand and website. Latest production machinery, a dedicated laboratory and state-of-the-art measuring capability ensures it works to the most exacting tolerances and can manufacture components in materials, such as stainless “Export is also a major target and we have set about increasing our number of agents in key territories, including Germany, the Netherlands and Asia. Supporting this will be the launch of international websites with their own international domains.” ACE spent £600,000 in 2019 on upgrading its facility in Telford and has just pressed the button on a further £250,000 investment to help it continue to win new work. Pre and post cleaning machines have been installed to make the company quicker and new auto loaders have been added on to the lines to aid a move to ‘lights-out manufacturing’ in some parts of production. 2020 is going to be a big year for our business and we’ve started by launching a new brand and website. For further information visit www.ace-uk.net or follow the company @Ace_ChemEtching on twitter. Issue 43 PECM 149