Ford Component Manufacturing

Ford are an award-winning, highly successful specialist in the precision machining and pressing of component for the aerospace, defence and industrial markets. Ford businesses provide a first-class, make-to-print turnkey service to a broad range of customers. ith its foundations laid in 1910, Ford is a celebrated name within a number of industries at home and abroad. Just as grandfather Robert Ford manufactured shims, spacers, pressed and formed products a century ago, the core business today remains unchanged except that production methods have become cleaner, faster, and more accurate than ever before. An important new product range was introduced in the 1980s - peelable laminated sheet and components - which enables manufacturers to fill small gaps in assemblies that would otherwise demand expensive machining methods to overcome. The company is one of very few in the world to provide this service. At about the same time a unique, low cost tooling technique was developed which took out the high cost of tooling normally associated with prototypes or small numbers of components. The technique is still practiced at the company's factories in the North East of the UK. As well as offering cost advantages, it also enables product turn-round an order of magnitude faster than conventional methods. Ford's efficient manufacturing service is ideal for a great number of industrial applications including railway rolling stock, heavy earth-moving equipment, HGVs, automotive and transmission parts, building components, small electrical parts, power generation, aerospace, construction, mining and material handling, electronics and agriculture equipment.