Progress
Engineering
Limited
Progress Engineering are proud to offer a bespoke engineering service combining machining, fabrication and finishing within our 20,000 sq.ft. facility conveniently located within the heart of Cornwall.
We have an extensive range of machining capabilities including manual lathes, mills, CNC capabilities and boring machines including our large horizontal and vertical boring machines one of which is equipped with a 6-foot chuck and an elevating rail to allow handling of very large components.
We work with customers to create one-off items or small quantities that meet your specific subcontract manufacturing needs. We take the time to understand your requirements which ensures your design is manufactured as efficiently and as cost effectively as possible.
Advice & Support
At PEL we make a big effort to understand each customer’s needs, as a business or as an individual working on a project, and we help in every way we can.
We have experience in prototype manufacture, having supplied pharmaceutical product testing equipment and naval hydraulically controlled operating units as well as more recently moving into the marine and renewables sectors.
Our production processes ensure a smooth operation and retains full traceability. They provide the necessary records of materials used, cast numbers, pressure tests and process certifications in accordance with our ISO 9001:2015 accreditation.
Our Services
Machining
Fabrication
Finishing
Machining
“OVERSIZED CAPABILITIES”
Machining
“OVERSIZED CAPABILITIES”
Machining
“OVERSIZED CAPABILITIES”
We have extensive manual machining capabilities with a collection of machines including lathes, mills and boring machines. These, coupled with our ever-growing CNC capabilities and our accomplished operators, provide us with a comprehensive suite of machining capabilities allowing to undertake your projects with skill and confidence
We choose our machines with an eye for accuracy and efficiency. Wherever possible we choose machines with aids such as digital readouts (DRO), computerised numerical controls (CNC) and live tooling. These aid us in providing you, our customers, with accurately machined end products quickly and efficiently delivered.
We have some unique machines in our collection which allow us to machine very large items post-fabrication. One of our large vertical boring machines is equipped with a 6-foot chuck, an elevating rail and a hydraulic copier which allows for precise replication of almost any shape. Our large horizontal boring machines allow us to machine items up to 1.5m tall, 2.2m wide and 1.2m deep making us one of the only companies in the South West with such comprehensive large boring capabilities.
These brief paragraphs only provide an overview of our capabilities. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch for advice on exactly how we will meet your product’s machining needs.
- Webster Bennett Fixed Rail Vertical Borer 1.5m dia chuck x 400mm high
- Webster Bennett Elevating Rail & Hydraulic Copier Attachment Vertical Borer 1.8m dia chuck x 1m high
- 2 x Large Swing DSG with 6-Jaw Chuck 700mm swing x 0.5m long
- 2 x Radial Arm Drills Maximum 6ft Swing
- CNC Yang Eagle Table 500m wide x 750mm long x 200mm high
- CNC Gital 500 with Live Tooling 400mm dia x 1m long
- CNC Bar Feed Up to 50mm dia x 400mm long
- CNC Mill 780 x 431 x 406mm traverse
- 3 x Horizontal Borers Fitted with DRO 1.5m sq table x 1.1m high
- 2 x Lathes Fitted with DRO Manual Maximum capacity 400mm dia x 4m long
- 2 x Pillar Jib Cranes Maximum 500kg capacity
- 1 Overhead Gantry Crane Maximum 1 tonne load
- 1 x Diesel Operated Forklifts – Up to 3.5m reach & Maximum 5 tonne load
- 1 x Battery Operated Forklifts Up to 4.5m reach & maximum 3.5 tonne load
Colchester Triumph 2000 Lathe
DSG Type 25 Lathe
XYZ Proturn SLX 555 CNC Lathe
Graziano CTX700 CNC Lathe
XYZ SLX 1630 Mill Lathe
XYZ DPM 5000 Mill
HAAS VF-6/40 Vertical Machining Centre
Webster Bennett 5' Vertical Borer
Kearns Richard SJ100 Horizontal Borer
Simpuech Horizontal Borer
Harrison Alpha 550S Lathe
DSG Type 30 6m Lathe
XYZ Proturn VL 425 Lathe
HAAS TL25 CNC Lathe with Bar Feed
XYZ SMX 4000 Mill
XYZ Pro K3000 Mill
Webster Bennett 6' Vertical Borer with Hydraulic Copier Attachment
Kearns Richard SJ100 Horizontal Borer
Giddings, Lewis & Fraser Horizontal Borer
Fabrication
Fabrication
Fabrication
Tig Welders
Forklift Trucks
Jib Cranes
Pearsons Guillotine
Morgan Rushworth Large Power Rollers
Sahinler 1270mm x 90mm Powered Rollers
LVD Press Brake
Mig Welders
Overhead Traveling Cranes
Radial Arm Drills
Baykal Press Brake CNC
Morgan Rushworth Small Manual Rollers
Sahinler B162 Powered Rollers
Our welders and fabricators are certified in complex forms of sheet metal work and large heavy fabrication both in mild and stainless steel. Our welders are certified to EN ISO 9606-1 2017 in both carbon and austenitic steels. Progress Engineering also accredited to BS EN 1090-1:2009+A1:2011 and BS EN 1090-2:2008+A1:2011 EXC3.
Our extensive certifications mean that you can have absolute confidence in our welding and fabrication performance and our engineer’s knowledge of the correct procedures. This confidence is shared by long term customers within the food & pharmaceutical, maritime & offshore, flood defense and renewable energy sectors.
- 1 x Diesel Operated Forklifts – Up to 3.5m reach & Maximum 5 tonne load
- 1 x Battery Operated Forklifts – Up to 4.5m reach & maximum 3.5 tonne load
- 2 Overhead Gantry Crane – Maximum 5 tonne load each
- 1 x Overhead Gantry Crane – Maximum 1 tonne load
- Beadblast Booth for Non-Ferrous Metals – Maximum capacity 4.6m wide x 3m deep x 2.7m high
- CNC Press Brake – Maximum capacity 3m wide x up to 12mm thick
- LVD Guillotine – Maximum capacity 4m wide up to 6mm thick
- Pressbrake – Maximum capacity 10mm thick x 4m wide
- Power Rolls – Maximum capacity 2.5m wide up to 5mm thick
- Power Rolls – Maximum capacity 1.5m wide up to 10mm thick
- Pels Nibbler – which can complete louvres – Up to 5mm thick
- Range of Air Tools and Finishing/Polishing Tools
- Spot Welder / Swager / Large Flypress / Plasma Cutter / Oxyacetylene Gas Cutting / Mag Drills
- 7 x Qualified & Experienced Fabricators who can undertake MIG/MA G/TIG MMA (Stick) welding of various materials
Finishing
Finishing
Finishing
We offer an extensive range of final finishes to meet end users’ needs and satisfy industry requirements. For example, we are a bovine free factory to comply with food and pharmaceutical requirements; we also have carefully selected partners to assist where specialist finishes such as marine spec paint are needed.
Where a durable and uniform matte finish is needed, our glass bead blasting facility, only used for non-ferrous materials, will easily accommodate structures up to about 4 meters in length or breadth and 3 meters in height.
To create polished stainless steel finishes, we use a variety of grinding media to obtain the appropriate surface quality ranging from a dull polish through to a mirror finish. We can give a certified RA reading if required.
We work with a wide variety of certified
sub-contractors and so can offer a wide of surface coatings including paint, powder coating, anodising and various plating’s.
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07:00 AM to 16:15 PM
Friday
07:00 AM to 12:12 PM
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Phone
01208 261210
Walker Lines Industrial Estate
Bodmin
Cornwall
PL31 1EX
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