Guy-Raymond’s Production Takes Place In-house at our Modern Factory in King’s Lynn in the East of England
We have an extensive production capacity at our 6000sqm site, and the vast majority of our processes are completed in house to enable efficient response times, flexibly and reliably to suit the needs of you and your business on a worldwide scale.
Guy-Raymond’s production capability means that we can produce multiple orders simultaneously from one-off minimum quantities through to large ongoing contracts, with 24 hour productivity during the working week. Many of those orders can be despatched with very short lead times due to us manufacturing 25,000,000+ products per year and holding large volumes of sub-component parts in stock ready to assemble when we receive your order.
To do this requires the following machinery and manpower:
Design, Research and Development
Our Design, Research & Development team use CAD modelling which is completed with Solidworks software, giving us the flexibility to adapt our products to suit our customers’ needs. We also use CAD-CAM which allows us to create CAM data straight from our 3D component computer model. All new developments are designed and tested in our modern onsite laboratory with up to date equipment including Instron and Vicivision and bespoke test equipment.
Tool Room
We have an in house tool room which benefits you because we routinely maintain our tools and moulds for maximum efficiency with minimal disruption to the production line and for customers requiring new and bespoke products, the toolroom works closely with our Design, Research & Development department, easing communication and speeding up the development process. 2018 saw the addition of a bar-fed CNC lathe for producing short runs and specialised products. Further investments in 2024 saw an additional bar-fed CNC lathe with live tooling as well as an up to date CNC 5-axis milling machine.
Injection Moulding Department
24 Moulding machines – enables us to produce plastic components at a rate of 1 cycle per 10-60 seconds and multicavity tools from 1 to 64 pieces. 16 of these moulding machines are the latest energy efficient all electric FANUC moulding machines which can use less than 2.3 KW of electricity per hour. With capacity from 100 – 210t we have the flexibility to produce small, medium and large parts on multi cavity tools in a range of different polymers.
Auto Forging Department
15 turning machines – including 8x Wickman Multi-Spindle Automatic lathes, 7x Traub Single-Spindle Automatic lathes with capacity from 5mm – 45mm that produce our cator axles, fixing, adjusters and custom turned parts.
2 Forging machines – are used to make some of the most common castor fixings at a rate of 3 per second.
2 Metal stamping machine produces metal plates at a rate of 1 per second.
400t – Around 400t of steel processed per year.
Press & Assembly
Automatic castor assembly machines: This enables us to produce up to 50,000 50mm castors per day of different options.
Semi-automatic machines: These machines are operated by skilled staff and produce up to 20,000 65mm castors per day.
At Guy-Raymond, we take quality control very seriously. As well as our own quality procedures, many of our products are also tested at the TÜV institute in Germany.
For further information, call +44 (0)1553 761401
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