Manufacturing and Engineering Magazine Volume 425 - January 2016 | Page 46
MANUFACTURING & ENGINEERING LIPCO ENGINEERING
CUTTING-EDGE
ENGINEERING
Lipco provides a highly skilled precision engineering service to Tier One
companies within Aerospace, Automotive, Commercial, Defence,
Motorsports, Oil and Gas and Rail industry sectors.
It's not often a company can be said
to have a hand in the operation of
each and every sector but, perhaps,
in Lipco Engineering, we have precisely that. Not just working within
a number of sectors but, critically,
at the cutting-edge of manufacturing and
engineering, it's a company with bold ambitions and a resumé to match.
Formed in 1980, Lipco Engineering has since
extended its reach from its Dorset home and
now operates from a further site in Lancashire.
Providing a highly-skilled precision engineering
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services to Tier
One companies across a wide range
of sectors, including: aerospace, automotive,
commercial, defence, motorsports, oil and gas,
and rail industry sectors, the company is
amongst the most prominent in CNC grinding,
milling and turning.
Representing lead times previously thought
untenable, Lipco Engineering offers products at
a robustness to accommodate the multiple sectors for which it caters; its newly-establish
grinding department bearing witness to the
company's esteemed quality. Indeed, making
use of the best in profiling equipment from a
range of suppliers, Lipco Engineering is now
even better-equipped to process hard chromeplated components, including those which are
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cylindrical, following this
year's scheme of investment.
With an expanse of milling and turning plant
equipment, commensurate to that of its grinding facilities, the company provides something
akin to a turnkey solution in precision engineering. With a 400mm chuck and 1500mm bed, the
new Mazak i400 integrex mill-turn is a formidable machine and, in addition to a further sixteen
milling and mill-turn tools, Lipco Engineering is
able to operate at a record number of different
speeds and thicknesses. Directly linked to cutting-edge CAD/CAM software, machines are
exacting while being adaptable to customer
requirement. As such, Lipco Engineering regularly offering consultancy at a design stage,
something of an asset for customers specialising in Design for Manufacture (DFM): allowing
input at all levels, from programmers right
down to the machinists, themselves.