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Banning GOA 1250 Hammer Installation at Brooks »
Date Added: 21/10/2011
As part of our continued expansion, at our Stourbridge manufacturing site, we have acquired a Banning GOA 1250 Drop Hammer. This was one of several forging machines obtained from the purchase of Parker Hannifin's forging facility in Halesowen. Extensive ground works were required to install the...
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Reduced Energy Impacter Forging Installed at Brooks »
Date Added: 21/07/2011
A Model C impacter system has been installed into the fully refurbished production site in Lye, West Midlands to further enhance the facilities available to our customers. Impacters operate on the basis that two bodies of equal mass are accelerated towards each other at the same speed. When they...
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Brooks Warehouse Expansion »
Date Added: 07/07/2011
The expansion and refurbishment of the Brooks warehousing and storage facility based in Cradley Heath, West Midlands is now underway. When complete will provide clients with more ‘Off the shelf’ product availability than ever before. New racking and the purchase of specialist forklift...
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Noise Map sets Brooks on the Right Route »
Date Added: 08/06/2011
Any British metals business which has survived and prospered for the last 50 years is clearly getting a great deal right, especially when it remains in the hands of its founding family. Black Country-based Brooks Forgings, which specialises in both forged and machined components, has earned a...
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Brooks Install Automated Shot Blast Machine »
Date Added: 04/04/2011
To help reduce costs and lead times we have installed a Tosca automated shot blast machine. Designed to allow for high production levels, whilst maintaining low running costs, of small and medium sized items. The machine uses a hydraulic hopper feed and automated discharge belt, both rubber lined...
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Heavy Duty Lathe added to Machining Department »
Date Added: 27/01/2011
YANG Heavy duty Linear Lathe - ML60A A recent addition to our Machining department is a YANG ML-60A heavy duty lathe. This will give us the capacity to manufacture and finish larger components. Delivery times should be reduced, large batch orders that are forged on site can be going through the...
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