Rodwell Powell Invests £250K in State-of-the-Art Inspection Facilities and Expands its Legacy in Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing
Enhancing Precision Engineering with Cutting-Edge LK Metrology CMM Technology Basildon, UK – Rodwell Powell, a leading specialist in aerospace, defence, and high-performance industrial machining, has reinforced its commitment to excellence and innovation with a £250,000 investment in its inspection department. This substantial upgrade includes the acquisition of two state-of-the-art LK Metrology Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), ensuring the highest levels of accuracy, efficiency, and quality […]
Grinding Machine Manufacture’s First CMM Delivers Major Efficiency Gains
Nikola Biresev, quality manager at Grindex, using the LK CMM to inspect a B-axis housing for an internal grinder at the company’s factory in Kikinda, Serbia In 2021, cylindrical grinding machine manufacturer Grindex, based in northern Serbia, installed its first coordinate measuring machine (CMM), an Altera M 20.12.10 manufactured in the UK by LK Metrology, […]
Bearing Specialist Accelerates And Enhances Quality Control
Bowman International’s quality manager Owen White operating the LK Altera 10.7.5 CMM in Abingdon A leading UK manufacturer of bespoke bearings and one of the biggest stockholders and distributers of plain bearings and sintered parts in Europe, Abingdon-based Bowman International has significantly upgraded the inspection of its products with the purchase of a new coordinate […]
LK Metrology Extends Eco-Friendliness Of Its Coordinate Measuring Machines
LK has further reduced the carbon footprint of its CMMs by introducing optional EcoAir technology to minimise the consumption of compressed air. A new innovation, EcoAir, has been introduced by British coordinate measuring machine (CMM) manufacturer LK Metrology to lower the carbon footprint of its products. The technology is optionally incorporated into new machines built […]
LK Metrology Acquires Nikon Metrology’s Laser Scanning and Focus Software Assets
Castle Donington (UK) LK Metrology announces that it has acquired Nikon Metrology’s laser scanning and Focus point cloud inspection software business. For more than 25 years, Nikon’s pioneering and class-leading 3D laser scanners, whether mounted on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM) for automated inspection or operated manually using an articulated measuring arm, have enabled rapid […]
Rapid inspection of large, tight-tolerance components
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Coalville, Leicestershire, CMS Cepcor is a leading supplier of aftermarket crusher spares, manganese-steel wear liners and other equipment to the mining, aggregate production and associated industries worldwide. In February this year (2024), the company took delivery of its first coordinate measuring machine (CMM), greatly enhancing quality control of the […]
Achieve better accuracy with our new ALTERA C HA
LK Metrology introduces the ALTERA C HA, a higher-accuracy version of the ALTERA C with optimized precision, for reduced measurement uncertainty when inspecting tight tolerance parts. ALTERA C HA is available in the same model sizes as ALTERA C, with integrated or freestanding controller, and passive or active anti-vibration mounts. Tactile probing is limited to the PH10M or PH10T […]
CMM Controller Retrofits Enable Multi-Sensor Inspection
At one of two factory units in Devizes operated by sealing specialists Cross Manufacturing (www.crossmanufacturing.com), two co-ordinate measuring machines (CMMs) built by LK Metrology (www.LKmetrology.com) in 1997 and 2007 have been given a new lease of life following an upgrade. It involved the OEM future-proofing operation of both machines by retrofitting multi-wired NMC300 controllers with […]
LK Derby 60th Anniversary Party
Established in 1963, LK Metrology (www.LKmetrology.com) has an impressive heritage dating back to the birth of coordinate measuring machine (CMM) technology. Founded by former Rolls Royce engineer and CMM pioneer Norman Key and his father-in-law Jim Lowther, the company is credited with many innovations in the CMM industry. In 1972, in partnership with Rolls-Royce, Mr […]
