Plant list

CGP Engineering has a superbly equipped workshop featuring some of the latest machinery, ensuring your jobs are completed quickly, efficiently and to the highest possible standards.

As well as the equipment listed below, you also have a selection of manual milling machines, lathes, drills, grinders and shot blasting machines at your disposal.

Makino U6 H.E.A.T. wire eroder

Automatic wire re-thread for multi cut operations. 5 axis movement and an accuracy of 0.003mm. Cuing Envelope 650 x 450 x 410mm. Cutting angle to 50deg inclusive

Hurco VMX 42Ti VMC 2021 model

12,000rpm spindle with through coolant option, 30 station auto tool change. Max 5 control with Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster more reliable program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1066 x 610 x 610mm.

Hurco VMX 42Ti VMC 2019 model

12,000rpm spindle with through coolant option, 30 station auto tool change. Max 5 control with Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster more reliable program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1066 x 610 x 610mm.

Kitagawa fully CAM programmable CNC 4th Axis for greater CNC milling scope and efficiency.

Hurco VMX 42 HSI

18,000rpm spindle with through coolant option and high speed axis drives and Max 5 control. Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster more reliable program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1000x610x610. 40 station tool change. Precision work holding and including shrink fit for accuracy and tool life.

Hurco VMX 24 HSI

18,000rpm spindle with high speed axis drives and Winmax NC Control. Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster more reliable program transfer. Cutting Envelope 650x500x500. 30 station tool change. Precision work holding and including shrink fit for accuracy and tool life.

Sodick AG60L

Frictionless linear motor drives, High speed sinker with LP2 digital touch screen control. 16 station auto electrode (tool) changer. Cutting Envelope 600 x 420 x 370mm. Max work piece weight 1500kg.

Hurco VMX 42Ti VMC

12,000rpm spindle, 24 station auto tool change. Winmax control with Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1066 x 610 x 610mm.

Hurco VMX 24Ti VMC

12,000rpm spindle, 24 station auto tool change. Winmax control with Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster program transfer. Cutting Envelope 635 x 510 x 510mm.

Bridgeport Mouldmaster VMC 1000

12,000rpm spindle, 22 station auto tool change. Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1000 x 610 x 610mm.

Hurco VMX 42 VMC

10,000rpm spindle, 24 station auto tool change. Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster program transfer. Cutting Envelope 1000 x 610 x 610mm.

Hurco BMC 4216 VMC

8,000 spindle, 24 station auto tool change. Ethernet link to remote CAM system for faster program transfer. Cutting Envelope 650 x 450 x 500mm

Hurco TM6 CNC turning centre

8K spindle, 12 station auto tool change. Ethernet. Maximum cutting diameter 280mm.

Agie advanced CNC spark eroder

Fully automatic. 15 station auto tool change. 4 axis movement and an accuracy to within 0.01mm Cutting envelope 750 x 500 x 350mm. Tank Dimensions 1150 x 860mm.

Erowa precision work holding equipment

A full complement of Erowa precision work holding equipment for fast and high precision interchange between machines.

Purpose built dust extraction unit

A powerful dust extraction unit designed and purpose built for CGP to remove graphite dust during machining.

SolidWorks 3D CAD software

New to CGP in 2016 the SolidWorks 3D CAD software is helping us to work and exchange files with you more closely and efficiently than ever.

CAD/CAM

4 seats of Visi CAD by Vero International Software – 3D Solid and surface modeler. Preferred import options of IGS, Parasolid (X_T), STEP, DXF and DWG.

4 Seats of Machining Strategist by VERO – High Speed 3D Machining software.

3 seats of NCG CAM from NCG CAM solutions Cambridge, full 3D machining software

1 seat of Vero Compass - 2D/2.5D solid model recognition and automatic programming software.

1 seat of PEPS by Visi, full 5 axis wire eroding CAM

Data, networking & security

Every aspect of the data network have been built with redundancy in mind. Data and PC settings are backed up daily to a mass storage device that is configured to RAID 1 (mirroring). All software used by CGP is current, supported and up to date.