Press Forming
We offer mechanical and CNC press forming for all types of components, allowing you to optimise both tooling and production costs.
Our in-house capabilities, comprises CNC punching and a range of press forming machines up to 120 tonnes.
Assembly, Packaging and Logistics
We know that details can make all the difference to a successful business partnership. That’s why we take the same care packaging and dispatching your products as we do fabricating and finishing them.
A typical week sees some 12,000 different products and kits pass through our warehouse. That’s over one million individual components assembled, packed and dispatched to clients around the world.
We recognise that design integration, from manufacture right through to dispatch, is key to maintaining cost-effectiveness. That’s why we deliver a service tailored to each customer’s unique requirements. Depending on the specification, we can assemble part-products or produce comprehensive kits for local or DIY assembly.
In addition to conventional packaging, we can provide tamper-evident kit packs, with all parts visible, which ensure products arrive undamaged. A full inspection is carried out on all components and indelible warranty labels ensure traceability. We can also provide packaging which includes detailed pictorial fitting instructions, overcoming language barriers for clients who ship their products internationally.
Product Finishing
Our breadth of industrial experience means that our talented team has extensive experience with many types of product pre-treatments and finishes; essential for increasing product life and adding value.
We offer a reliable, single point of contact for finishing your products, using a combination of in-house processes and specialist finishes delivered by trusted external partners. These processes include:
- Degreasing
- Shot blasting
- Nylon powder coating
- Galvanizing
- EP and powder coating
- Stainless steel polishing.
Nylon and Antimicrobial Coatings
ASG is a recognised market leader in the expert application of advanced nylon powder coatings.
When compared with industry-standard epoxy polyester finishes, nylon powder coatings offer increased resistance to impact, abrasion, corrosion and chemicals, as well as being more hygienic and ecologically sound.
As we work with a wide range of applications, across a breadth of industries, we have adopted the highly versatile and cost-effective fluidised bed dipping process. This allows the nylon coating to be applied on all types of metals, with a controlled thickness of between 250-500 microns. Coating up to 2mm is also achievable, with minimal tooling costs.
Other advantages of nylon powder coating:
- Reduced thermal conductivity
- Low friction coefficient
- Mechanical strength
- Durability
- Wide colour range.
We are one of only a handful of companies entrusted to apply the exclusive Rilsan Active anti-microbial coating, which help control the risk of bacterial contamination, especially in areas where high standards of hygiene and cleanliness are both a requirement and a responsibility.
Plastic Injection Moulding
With a state-of-the-art plastic injection moulding facility, we are able to process a wide range of general and specialist engineering polymers, composites and elastomers. It features top-of-the-range Arburg and Engel machines able to produce both simple and complex insert moulded products, with a range of capacities from 50t to 1300t.
Our dedicated and highly flexible in-house injection moulding service is optimised for both small and medium batch production, ensuring efficient and cost-effective solutions. As part of the total package service we offer, we can also provide expert advice regarding tooling and processing criteria.
CNC Tube Manipulation
To greatly enhance our tube forming and manipulation capabilities, we have invested in the E-Turn 40 from BLM, a recognised world leader in tube processing technology. This is a fully-electric, variable radius, right-and-left forming machine which can handle diameters up to 40mm.
The E-Turn has reduced the time needed for programming and change-over, while increasing productivity and providing enhanced controllability and repeatability. It has 3D graphic visual programming and can manage both fixed and variable radii.
When used in combination with our larger forming machines (which are capable of handling diameters up to 63.5mm), this highly advanced piece of kit allows us to offer the widest range of tube manipulation and forming options, with extensive tooling available in-house for various material profiles and sections.
Advanced Laser Cutting
In recent years we have a made a considerable investment in advanced laser tube cutting technology, which has now placed us at the forefront of UK manufacturing in this area. It’s an investment which not only allows us to better meet the needs of our clients, but compete head-to-head with low-cost sources in other countries.
Our latest large-scale investment has been in a combination laser/punching machine from innovative, market-leading company, Amada. Their C1 is noted for both speed and accuracy, and at ASG it is fed by an Amada sheet load/unload unit capable of handling up to 3t of material. As this unit is fully automated, we are able to run the C1 on a 24-hour basis, without the need for operatives.
Suitable for both small batches and large runs, our laser tube cutting system can handle capacities up to a diameter of 152mm and a maximum length of 6500mm. With a subsequent reduction in wastage and the number of components required, it has meant significant cost savings for our clients, as well as a 70% improvement in productivity, achieved mainly by minimising sheet processes such as cutting, trimming, bending and welding. It has also removed the need for tooling in early-stage prototyping.
The main advantages of our Advanced Laser Cutting include:
- High-quality rigid joints
- Job changeovers in less than three minutes
- Faster programming from design to finished part
- Fully automated handling, including measuring, feeding, cutting and unloading
- Tube-specific CAD/CAM software control.
Fabrication
Quality, versatility and value have long been features of the expert fabrication services we’ve been providing since day one. Today, manual operations run alongside the very latest robotic and CNC equipment, allowing us the flexibility to meet client needs, budgets and timescales in the most effective way possible.
Our production facility is ideally suited to small and medium scale runs of fabricated parts, products and sub-assemblies in mild steel, stainless steel and aluminium.
Metal fabrication services include:
- General sheet metal work
- CNC tube forming
- Manual and robotic MIG welding
- Manual TIG welding
- Automated rotary welding
Design and Development
Our place at the cutting edge of design and development is assured through a significant ongoing investment in the very latest technology and a continuing programme of staff development.
Sharing our commitment to excellence and innovation, our talented team of design engineers and technicians work in a stimulating and creative environment where they have access to the very best facilities, comprising a fully equipped modelling shop, secure studio, 3D scanning and rapid prototyping equipment, alongside the most up-to-date CAD software, including Catia v5 and Solid Works.
From initial concept right through to final delivery, we can manage every stage of the design and development process, while secure electronic data transmission ensures full co-ordination and concurrent engineering with client partners. We are also able to offer product testing via the close links we have established with leading test facilities throughout Europe.
ASG designs and products are, wherever possible, protected by copyright and patent registration.