CNC Machining

We operate a modern and continually updated plant of CNC machines. Our plant ranges from simple 3 axis CNC vertical milling machines and 2 axis semi cnc lathes all the way through to multi pallet horizontal machining centres, multi axis turning centres and 13 Axis sliding head lathes.

Take a look through our plant list to see the machinery is utilised on our shop floor. We are a sub-contract precision engineering business producing components for our wide customer base in industry sectors ranging from Aerospace, Defence, Medical, Automotive, Subsea, Electronics, Communications etc..

CNF is able to offer prototype 1off parts, through to multi thousand production run parts. We can offer scheduled despatch of kits or single components via kan-ban, direct to stock or direct to the assembly line.

Product Finishing / Plating / Painting / Thermal Deburring / Rumbling / Tumbling

CNF is happy to undertake all finishing processes that our customers may require. We use our established network of third party suppliers for processes we are not able to carry out in house. Processes available include Anodising, Electro Plating, Electro Polishing, Painting, Lazer Engraving, Polishing, Wet and Powder Painting, Explosive/Thermal deburring, Vibratory Deburring, Bead Blasting etc etc. We can supply Certificates of Conformity for all finishing processes where necessary.

Product Testing

CNC / CAD Programming

We utilise the power of Delcam Featurecam and Licom Alphacam programming systems. These systems enable us to not only create complex 2D and 3D CAD drawings, but also automatically generate the CNC code for all of our machinery. All the machines are linked via DNC to the main CAD terminal to enable easy upload and download of our CNC programs. This makes setup of repeatable jobs much faster. We are also able to import and create programs from customer supplied solid model files.

We are able to receive customer drawings via email, CD and to our dedicated FTP server in most major CAD and Image file formats including:

*.dwg (Autocad) / *.sldd (Solidworks) / *.dxf / *.iges / *.jpg / *.gif / *.pdf / *.tiff / *.dwf / *.stp + many others

We utilise a high speed internet connection at CNF, so large files are never normally an issue when emailed or sent to our FTP server.

Customer Relations

In our continual effort to improve relationships with our customers, we are embarking on a project to make all of our shop floor data live on this website. We hope in time this will enable customers to login to a secure area of this site and make queries on the exact state of work they have ordered with us in real time, and projected completion and delivery dates. There will also be facilities customers can view order history, stock levels and current selling price for any parts. Futher details will be made available on this website as they happen.