Capacity
Intake Engineering started life in Wingham near Canterbury in 1889, when a group of local farmers founded a farm machinery repair business that they called Wingham Engineering. The company moved to its present site in 1914, spending £1750 to erect a new 10,000 sq. ft. workshop and engine shed to service the growing railway traffic generated by the Kent coalfields. Heavy precision engineering has been carried out on the site continuously from the start of the First World War to the present day, and the original tracks remain in the workshop floor. However evidence of any of Wingham's three railway stations is now hard to find, and the business has had to re-invent itself as a precision machine shop, specialising in particularly large and/or complex items, serving a wide variety of industries throughout the South East.
In addition to straight forward fabrication and machining Intake has developed, with a number of key clients, a design, manufacture, installation and commissioning service for a variety of specialist items of plant and equipment, such as powder mixers, food processing mixers, presses and paper forming rolls. The company's success in such "value adding" engineering has only been possible because of the staff - averaging 25 years in the industry, they are highly skilled and take an inordinate pride in the quality of "their" products.
The building benefits from the size needed for its original purpose, with
the main shop 34 metres long, 15 metres wide, 8 metres to the crane rail and
12 metres to the apex. It is serviced by two modern Abus 5 tonne overhead
cranes, capable of working in tandem. One, 20 metres by 7 metres, side
machining shop is equipped with a similar, but 2 tonne crane. The other side
shop is 33 by 12metres. All have Fork Lift Truck access. Items larger than
10 tonne can be catered for using mobile cranes.
We work with external suppliers for welding, fabrication, surface finishing
and heat treatment. Transport & packing is arranged as appropriate to product.
Supporting operations include finishing, assembly, inspection, packing &
documentation.
This means that we can focus on the best use of the following plant &
equipment:
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Extensive use is made of DRO equipment on non CNC machines
- CNC Machining
- Citizen 7 Axis Sliding Head CNC Auto C16VIE
- 7 Turning Centres, chucking to 200mm dia, bar feed to 50mm dia
- 3 Vertical Machining Centres, inc 4th axis, 1000 x 500 x 480mm
- 2 CNC Centre Lathes 550mm dia x 3M
- Traditional Manual Equipment
- 3 Webster Bennett Vertical Borers; 36", 48" & 54", up to 48" under rail
- 2 Horizontal Borers up to 1.5 M rise x 1.5 M traverse, tables indexable, 360
degree rotation
- 11 Milling Machines, production, horizontal, vertical & universal; max table
1.2M x 0.23M
- 6 Manual Centre Lathes 800mm dia x 4M downwards
- 2 Ward Turret Lathes, 2 Ward Capstan Lathes + 3 Smart & Brown Capstan Lathes
- 1 Landis threading machine, 50mm capacity
- Wire rolling machines
- Slotter,
- Auto Cold Saw,
- Bandsaw
- 8 Cam Autos:
Browne & Sharpe, CVA & Traub
- Drilling: Bench, Pillar, Radial +
Tapping
- Surface Grinding, Tool & Cutter grinding
- Hydraulic , Bench, Fly & Toggle Presses
- Finishing operations
- Inspection Equipment
Capacities in brief:
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Horizontal Boring
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To a 1.5M sq face
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Vertical Boring
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1.2M dia & 1.2M high
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Turning
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To 500mm diameter & 4M length
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Vertical CNC
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x: 1000, y: 500, z: 480mm
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CNC Turning
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To 380mm dia x 3M
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Turning Centres
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chucking to 200mm dia, bar feed to 50mm dia
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Intake welcomes engineering problems and provides solutions which are
cost-effective and service-led.
