Manufacturing

Darchem maintains a skilled workforce capable of delivering high quality product on a first time / on-time basis. The extensive use of tooling ensures consistent, repeatable parts in production, with high levels of customer satisfaction and consequently good Quality scorecards.

High level process and verification

We hold NADCAP Special Process Approvals in Non-Conventional Machining, Non-Destructive Testing, Resistance and Fusion Welding, and Chemical Processing. For product verification we maintain coordinate measurement equipment including a Large Fixed Bed CMM, Portable Arms incorporating scanning Technology, an 8 Axis Arm – (Rotary Table) and 2D digitised shadow graph

Offering a range of manufacturing solutions

• Silicone
• Polymide
• Composites
• Soft blanket
• Metallics
• Sheet metal
• Stretch forming
• Die quench forming
• Pressbrake folding
• Draw forming
• Rubber forming
• Bulge forming
• Saab fluid forming
• 5 axis machining / milling
• Turning
• Milling
• Drill & CSK
• Aqua blast
• Deburring
• Acid pickling
• Fusion & resistance welding
• MIG and TIG welding
• 6G welding
• Solid & blind riveting
• Silicon bonding
• Dry film lube
• Part marking – dot-peen, chemi-etch, laser-etch
• Chemi etch marking
• Vibro peen marking
• Laser etch marking
• Air flow & pressure testing
• FPI & radiography
• Radiography
• Metallurgy lab
• Surface grinding
• Flat laser profiling
• Section rolling
• 5 axis laser profiling
• Punching profiling & patterns