Aerospace Solutions

pECM Group have supplied Electro Chemical Machining Systems around the world. Every Stealth Bomber, Eurofighter and Apache Helicopter has major, critical components manufactured on our machines.

We have produced multi-axis machines capable of machining platforms and shrouds of turbine blades at the same time as machining the airfoils. Leading and trailing edges machined to finished drawing dimensions.

Benefits

• Very high stock removal rates

  

  Shark skin effect surfaces

• Submicoron surface finish
• No brittle re-cast layer
• No heat effected zone
• Zero Cathode wear
• Very stable process
• Extremely repeatable
• Very fast ROI
• Its is a new process to most company so any development work can usually be set off against Corporation Tax (125% for SMEs)

Applications

• Compressor Blades

  

  

  

• Turbine Blades
• Precision components
• Honeycomb seals
• Strip seals
• Rotating components
• Exotic Materials – Nickel Alloys, Titanium Alloys, Titanium Aluminide