Accurate Cutting Services - an unrivalled technical partner Supplying vital answers to Britain's manufacturers … over four decades Accurate Cutting Services brings solutions and efficiency gains to manufacturers before machining, and after casting, forging, fabrication and extrusion. “Accurate Cutting Services understands our needs and those of our customers” - Andrew Nicoll, Business Development Manager, Callender Lancashire Aeropart Ltd. Its advanced capabilities in reshaping metal pieces have brought added value in a variety of industrial sectors, including aerospace, automotive, construction, energy and marine engineering.

With knowledge and skills acquired in some 40 years of service to industry, and by investing in locations best suited to customers, Accurate Cutting Services has won an unrivalled place as a technical partner to leading UK manufacturers. Offering the UK's largest, most versatile sub-contract metal sawing service “Accurate Cutting Services has proved itself very flexible and quick to respond to sudden changes in our production programme” - Ian Young, Managing Director, Stokes Forgins Ltd. The company can provide sawing solutions to seemingly intractable machining problems, producing cost-effective answers where other metal machining techniques have failed. Its sectioning of part-finished or finished forgings, fabrications and castings brings benefits such as low material loss, nil distortion and improved accuracy.

Manufacturing processes are simplified, with reduced production times and lowered direct costs. Doncaster FVC's case book of advanced applications includes sawing, in two, a centrifugally-cast turbine generator casing, 1350mm long, 1450mm in diameter and with 200mm thick walls, using what is one of the UK's largest gantry band saws, capable of cutting horizontally, vertically or at an angle. It produces high-volume rounds, squares, solid bars and tubes, also, to close tolerance, in ferrous and non-ferrous metals. One object for such precise cutting was a multiport extrusion, demanding minimal distortion. “The casing is for Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB, and without the assistance of Accurate Cutting Services it would have been a struggle to find a subcontractor with the knowledge and capacity to cut such a large casing” – Keith Winkley, Doncasters FVC Ltd Adding more value – by working near to its customers The company's responsiveness to industry's needs has led to it establishing working cells in Lancashire, Yorkshire, West Midlands and a second Redditch location. Some are within customers' premises, reducing WIP and transport costs and optimising response-to-change times. Its services bring the greatest possible value to the customers there. Lead times and costs are low in the JIT working, and communications are ideal. Advanced investigation and value-recovery services Accurate Cutting Services provide facilities for the investigation of component or fabrication failure, as well as valuable opportunities for reclamation. The company can tackle large items through the skilful use of its heavy-duty bandsaw machines. It was selected as the only company capable of sectioning a 1500mm reactor vessel cylinder for Europe's Health & Safety Commission.

On another occasion, a close tolerance cut was required to remove a flange header from a sophisticated heat exchanger, made in a titanium alloy. The company had to dry-cut this in-line component from the petrochemical industry because contamination of the continuous process could not be tolerated. Solutions, too, through sawing-machine and blade sales and service The company applies its nearly 40 years experience of in developing, manufacturing and using band and circular saw blades, and machines, to provide sales and support solutions to their users. With the metals used in today's manufacturing including advanced alloys with extreme thermal, chemical or mechanical properties, heavy demands are made of blades. The right choice of blade to use, and its proper maintenance, are vital if delivery times, productivity targets and quality standards are to be met. To provide the best possible service responsiveness, the company's blade manufacture, grinding and repair, and sawing-machine repair work are carried on around the clock.