Manufacturing Services

We specialise in low and high volume production runs of high quality components using precision machinery.

CPE Chelmsford can offer a complete service, working with approved sub-contractors to carry out all types of plating and painting processes that are compliant with REACH & RoHS standards.

We can also advise on design and the manufacturing of prototypes.

All materials are in bonded stores with full traceability using Tricorn, our production control software.

CPE has vast experience with various materials such as:

  • Aluminium
  • Brass
  • Bronze
  • Copper
  • Invar
  • Nickel
  • Nickel Iron
  • Molybdenum
  • Monel
  • Stainless Steel
  • Various plastics: PTFE, Tecatron, Nylon, Acetal And many more

Our current machinery consists of:

CNC Milling

  • Bridgeport VMC1000.22 digital vertical production centre with Nikken 4th axis
  • Bridgeport VMC 560.22 vertical production centre with Hoffman 4th axis
  • Bridgeport VMC 560
  • Bridgeport VMC 600 digital vertical production centre with Nikken 4th axis
  • Bridgeport VMC 600
  • Bridgeport VMC 800.22 digital vertical production centre ( x 3 machines)

CNC Turning

  • Hitachi Seiki Hitec Turn 20S11 super productive turning cell
  • Hardinge Conquest T42 CNC lathe
  • Hardinge Conquest T42 CNC lathe with live tooling
  • Hardinge CS-SP Conquest 42 CNC

CNC Turn/Mill

  • Haas ST15-Y
  • Haas ST10-Y