Services
Hemlock offer a very wide range of machining services. We aim to provide a complete machining service for any type of component and specialise is project managing the entire component supply chain which might include machining, anodising or plating and stockholding for call off/kanban.
CNC Milling
Most of our 3 axis milling machines are geared up with 4th axis units and/or multi vice workholding systems which enable us to clamp up to 8 components in a single operation. This means that cycle time is extended. This gives time for the operator to do other work within cycle - such as inspection - and also reduces the number of overall operations.
We have around 20 CNC milling machines of various types operating on a twin shift system.
5-axis Milling
We currently have three Hermle 5-axis milling machines and one Brother 5-axis fitted with an automatic Robot loading system. If the component has form machining or is extremely complex then ideally we would want you to issue a solid model to us. Our 5-axis machines can do high speed surfacing work or machine complex multi-axis operations that guarantee the relative geometry of all features.
We generally use Openmind Hypermill to program our 5-axis machines. We also use MasterCAM and Solidworks.
CNC Turning
We can offer a full range of CNC Turning capacity through our sister company HPC Services Ltd. They have invested millions into the latest muti-axis CNC Lathes and slidinghead lathes. HPC operate a very similar quality system to Hemlock and are also ISO9002 approved.
HPC Operate 10 Citizen Slidinghead Lathes and 7 Nakamura fixed head lathes operating on a twin shift system.
Stockholding/ EU Supply
We can hold your stock in the UK or supply it from our stockholding facility in Poland to anywhere in the EU.
We will generally offer stockholding as standard.
This is actually our preferred way to operate.
If we can make a larger batch then it usually means the unit price per part we charge is lowered.
Thus stockholding is a win win for us and our clients who may have an annual usage of components.
It means we can schedule our production so there are never any supply issues.