For over 70 years, Lapmaster Wolters Limited, Plymouth, Devon has been at the forefront of Lapping and Polishing technologies, producing 1000’s of machines for global markets including Oil, Gas, Medical, Aerospace, Automotive, Optics and alike.
During this time, we have manufactured various types of machines for processing a variety of materials; metals, plastics, glass, etc, using abrasive and diamond compounds of varying micron sizes for mainstream and special applications.
More recently, we have embarked on a new project for the Aerospace sector that requires the ability to lap and polish parts over 3 metres (172”) in diameter whilst holding flatness and parallelism within a few microns over the full diameter with almost zero scratching to the surface.
This has required our in-house design team to develop a machine capable of achieving the desired specifications within the shortest timeframe. Having reached this milestone early, Lapmaster engaged with local suppliers, as well as further afield within the UK to supply the required parts for such a project. This has helped reduce production times and minimise logistics ensuring we meet these customers deadlines.
Currently, we are seeing parts arriving ahead of time giving us opportunity to start assembly early and showcasing this to our customer base. The additional interest this project is attracting and recent activities in the marketplace is increasing our order book considerably with the bonus of utilising our capacity and resource to the maximum giving the potential of added security to Lapmaster and its suppliers…maybe for another 70 years!
We will continue to update our news page as the work progresses.
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