ROLLING STOCK AND TRACTION
Heavy engineering company delivers world-class engineering quality for rail
Clive Brimmell, sales manager at heavy engineering company APG, says the company is fast building a reputation for delivering world-class engineering expertise within the rail industry as it continues to win business in the sector.
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ccredited to BS EN ISO 9001:2008, Scotland-based APG works to the
highest international standards of quality and reliability offering a complete design and manufacture service for a variety of applications from machining complete packages, such as escalator drive assemblies to separate gearwheels, pinions and suspension sleeves.
The company even has its own heat treatment facility on-site, unlike many other companies, providing a number of advantages in terms of improved lead times, enhanced quality and cost efficiencies.
Indeed it is a formula which is paying dividends with APG winning a number of new contracts in recent months, further cementing APG’s position as a major supplier to the rail traction industry.
includes extra machine tools to help us service this market.
The latest contracts won by the business will provide a strong platform for continued growth, securing the future livelihood of the current workforce at Motherwell and the acquisition of larger premises only five miles away from the existing factory.
The move will mark a new era in the company’s history.
The new factory at
Above: Typical cast traction motor suspension tube being loaded onto machining centre during production.
the Big Blue Shed at Bellshill Industrial Estate, Lanarkshire, is more than three times larger than APG’s current premises and will allow the company to expand the product range it offers to customers.
The new premises will be laid out to provide modern flow methods, with better lighting and a totally fresh working environment.
Above: Typical finish machined traction gearwheel and pinion.
In the past six months alone the company has received orders of more than £1.75m in value, as part of which they will be playing a key role as companies within the sector overhaul their fleets.
APG’s growth into the rail sector has exceeded expectations and now accounts for in excess of 75% of the business.
The amount of work the company is winning within the rail industry is paving the way for future investment with the company which
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Recognising that investment is key to APG’s continuing success, the company has recently secured a new Makino MCD 2016 machining centre, which has twin pallet loading and capacity to handle work pieces up to 2.0m x 1.6m x 1.6m and weighing up to 10,000kgs.
This will complement the extensive heat treatment department, which includes multiple Wild Barfield pit carburisers with capacity up to 800mm dia and two Ipsen quench furnaces capable of handling work pieces up to 1,200 x 600 x 700mm, further adding to APG’s high- end manufacturing facility as a single source supplier of quality.
APG is one of the few companies in the sector to offer all in-house manufacturing.
We can provide our customers with total quality control, giving them the peace-of-mind that the parts we manufacture for safety- critical rail systems are of the highest standard of engineering excellence.
We work as a team with customers to offer a genuine single source solution which meets their needs and offers complete peace of mind.
APG’s extensive range of equipment can perform CNC gear grinding for parts up to 1,600mm diameter and 1,000mm face width, gear shaping up to 1,000mm diameter and 200mm length, and bevel generation up to 1,016mm diameter and 200mm length, as well as CNC horizontal turning up to 900mm diameter and 3,000 length, CNC vertical turning/boring up to 1,600mm diameter and 1,000mm length and prismatic machining up to 1,250mm x 1,000mm x 1,000mm.
Its Wenzel co-ordinate measuring machine can cope with components up to 1,500mm x 1,500mm x 2,500mm.
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