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Top tool - The Schiess Horimaster CNC floor borer has undergone full alignment and calibration.
Leading the way
Machine tooling expertise keeps
Tees firm at the forefront
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New purchase – The firm’s £50,000 Faro
Quantum measurement arm.
Proud – Tees Components MD Sharon Lane.
ell known for its specialism
in heavy CNC machining,
Tees Components is
dedicated to a process of
continuous investment in
the latest technology to machine large-scale
components.
The company boasts clients in a wide
range of key industries, including defence,
renewable power generation, new nuclear
and decommissioning and marine.
Its move into new markets means the
company currently has a strong order
book, bolstered by long-term accounts.
Its continued aim is to be the number one
company for the delivery of complex high-
risk and large-scale components.
As a result, it has one of the largest
machining capacities in the UK, with the
ability to machine components in a range
of metals, from mild steel and duplex to
Inconel and aluminium.
Tees Components recently completed
work to recalibrate one of its most
important machine tools at its modern
six-acre site, as well as investing £50,000
in a portable measurement arm for the
verification of precision machined work.
Its horizontal borers range up to almost
12 metres in x-axis travel, vertical borers
can turn up to seven-metre diameter and,
as the factory is serviced by a 72-tonne
overhead crane, there are few jobs it cannot
undertake on the grounds of size or weight.
One machine tool the company is
particularly proud of is the Schiess
Horimaster, a 10m x 4m x 1.25m CNC floor
borer manufactured in Germany. It features
a CNC rotary table as well as extensive
floor plates and has produced a wide range
of components for power generation,
marine, oil and gas, and defence sectors
since it was installed in 2014.
In addition to its size, it is trusted with
many precision contracts, which means
accuracy is crucial. It was decommissioned
in May to allow for full re-alignment and
calibration work to take place and now
achieves 0.075mm over ten metres –
especially suited for very large fabrications
with precision machining requirements.
All precision machined work must be
verified, and Tees Components recently
took delivery of a new portable £50,000
measurement arm, the Faro Quantum S
4.0m 6-axis arm, which replaces a previous
model.
The portable coordinate measuring
machine is the first to be verified to ISO
10360-12:2016. The largest, most accurate
model produced, its maximum permissible
error over four metres is just 0.045mm
(0.0018”).
Sharon adds: “It is crucial to our clients
that Tees Components maintain the very
highest standards of accuracy to allow
us to consistently machine large-scale
components in a variety of metals, often
involving highly complex projects, whilst
maintaining the tightest of tolerances.”