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Ashford Engineering Birmingham UK | Tools for Tailors Trimmings, Metal Spinners & Fabricators |
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Tenby Street North,
Hockley,
West Midlands,
UK |
| Postcode:
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B1 3EG |
| Country:
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UK |
| Phone number:
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0777 9863016 |
| Website:
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http://www.ashford-engineering-birmingham.co.uk |
| Contact name:
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Anthony Ashford |
| Email address:
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[email protected] |
| WMCCM Rated:
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yes |
| Profile:
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Ashford Engineering, Birmingham, UK is a specialist supplier of tools, jigs, turned components & pressed parts to the tailoring, jewellery, plating and general engineering industries. These include;
Tailor's trimmings tools. (Trouser & skirt hook & bars, etc.)
Spinning blanks & tools.
Turned parts.
Plating jigs and fixtures parts.
Tools for fabricators.
Press punch blanks.
Jewellery parts & jigs.
Tools for the jewellery industry.
Ashford Engineering, Birmingham, machine parts in stainless steel, titanium, brass, mild steel, as well as nylon, PVC, polypropylene etc.
Ashford Engineering are based in the heart of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, with easy access to the West Midland's motorway network and the UK. |
| Ethos:
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Ashford Engineering, Birmingham, UK, serve the tailoring, jewellery, plating and general engineering industries.
Ashford Engineering machine parts in many materials including stainless steel, mild steel, titanium, brass as well as polypropylene, nylon, PVC etc.
Tailors Trimmings to Plating Tools
Ashford Engineering was founded with specialist experience in tooling for the tailor's & jeweller's trades providing and maintaining the tools for hook & loop type clothing fasteners, etc. for trousers, skirts, etc. The business successfully moved to meet customer's requirements for fabrication & plating tools as well as batches of turned parts, spinning chucks, pressed blanks etc.
Quality records kept include all drawings and contractual information as well as photographs of all jobs produced.
Ashford Engineering are based in the heart of Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, with easy access to the West Midland's motorway network and the UK.
RMZ 11 April 2005 |
| Basic line of business:
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Specialist engineering inc. tools for tailor's trimmings, metal spinners, fabricators & platers. |
| Products and services:
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Tailor's trimmings tools; spinning chucks, tools & pressed blanks for spinners; turned parts; plating jigs and fixtures parts; tools for fabricators; press punch blanks in various shapes; jewellery parts & jigs; tools for the jewellery industry.
Also refurbishes personal computers. |
| Runners:
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15 |
| Repeaters:
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80 |
| Strangers:
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5 |
| Number of Employees:
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not given |
| Annual Turnover (£m):
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not given |
| Annual Rate of Growth (%):
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not given |
| Reference customers:
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Thomas Walker UK Limited |
| End customers:
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M & S, Spinners, Platers. |
| Competence transfer:
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Expanded into computer refurbishment |
| Key processes:
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Key Process:
Milling,Tool Making
Specialist tools and milled parts using;
1 x Bridgeport Vertical Milling Machine with 42" x 9" table (1066mm x 228mm)
1 x Victoria Horizontal Milling Machine with 34" x 8.5" table (863mm x 215)
(Mastery: Mature, Time In Operation: 25.00 years)
Key Process:
Turning
Specialist tools & turned parts using;
1 x Cardiff Centre Lathe with
15" swing x 40" (381mm x 1016) 20" swing x 4.5" in Gap.
1 x Colchester Student Centre Lathe with
12" swing x 26" (304mm x 660) 18" swing x 4" in Gap.
1 x Ward 2A Capstan Turning Lathe 1.25" diameter (32mm)
(Mastery: Mature, Time In Operation: 15.00 years)
Key Process:
Presswork
Light pressings & blanking using:
1 x Sweeny & Bocksidge 12 ton power press
Various Norton No. 3 & No. 6 Hand Presses
(Mastery: Mature, Time In Operation: 20.00 years)
Key Process:
Blasting,Heat Treatment
Hardening, linishing, blasting & finishing of tools and metal parts using:
1 x Wild Barfield Electric Hardening Oven (7" x 4" x 12") (178mm x 101 x 472)
1 x Horizontal / Vertical Linishing Rig.
1 x Clemco Bead Blasting station.
2 x Surface Grinders of 14" x 6" (355mm X 152)
(1 x Jones & Shipman, 1 x Read)
1 x spray paint station.
(Mastery: Mature, Time In Operation: 15.00 years)
Key Process:
ARC welding,Cutting,Drilling,Gas welding,MIG welding
Tool assemblies and specialist parts using:
1 x Meddings Driller 3/4" (19mm)
1 x Fobco Driller 1/2" (13mm)
1 x Corona 3 spindle Driller 3/8" (10mm)
2 x Ajax Power Saws ( 8" & 6")
1 x Willcox Band Saw with 7" throat
Gas Welding Station
Mig Welding Station
Arc welding Station
(Mastery: Mature, Time In Operation: 20.00 years)
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Role: Owner
Finishing,Machining,Tool Making,Turning,Welding
From a jewellery background this engineer has extensive tool making experience first within the tailor's trimmings industry, producing tools for skirt & trouser hook & staple insertion, then as a supplier. His business also provides tooling for the jewellery and plating industries.
(Skill Level: Experienced, Years of Practice: 35.00 years)
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| Locations:
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Birmingham, England, GB, UK, West Midlands |
| Markets:
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Fastener, General Engineering, Jewellery, Textile |
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