Photo etching specialist achieves impressive milestones

AMFebruary17News - Meggitt
AMFebruary17News - Meggitt

Over the last 50 years, the precision engineering landscape has been characterised by innovation, a focus on increased efficiency, and the ability to manufacture smaller, more complex components accurately, repeatably and cost effectively.

Over the last 50 years, the precision engineering industry has been characterised by innovation, a focus on increased efficiency, and the ability to manufacture smaller, more complex components accurately, repeatably and cost effectively.

In order to achieve these features, design engineers have had to think outside the box, employing new technologies such as photo etching, a metal machining process which produces the feature-rich, small, and extremely precise metal components that traditional machining technologies cannot.

Photo etching is used in cars, aeroplanes as well as for medical purposes and applications as diverse as heat exchangers, fuel cells and satellites.

Birmingham-based Precision Micro is one of the world’s leading photo etching companies and has been at the cutting edge of the technology for more than a century. This year it celebrates 10 years at its purpose built production facility based in Erdington, located next door to Jaguar Land Rover, one of the multiple global OEMs that use Precision Micro’s skills.

Commercial director Mick Taylor commented: “Our purpose-built facility was designed to deliver monthly sales of £1 million, something that we have been working towards since 2007. It is fitting that our 10 year anniversary coincides exactly with the achievement of this goal, 2016 seeing Precision Micro exceed the £12 million threshold.”

Since opening its purpose-built facility, the company has seen the establishment of sales offices in the Netherlands and Germany, but perhaps of most importance was when the company was acquired by global engineering group Meggitt in 2012.

At the time of acquisition, Meggitt was a customer of Precision Micro and used photo etching to manufacture extreme environment components for its aerospace, military, and energy products.

While Precision Micro is owned by Meggitt, it remains an autonomous business in its own right but has benefitted from the financial influence the global PLC can bring. Investment in capital equipment, research and development, and the nurturing of skills in the Erdington production facility has seen the company go from strength to strength in recent years.

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