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SPIROL Precision Shims

SPIROL Precision Shims

SPIROL Precision Shims

Product catalog summary
Overview: The document provides a comprehensive overview of SPIROL's capabilities in manufacturing precision shims and related products, emphasizing quality, cost-effectiveness, and customer satisfaction across industries such as aerospace, agriculture, heavy equipment, and defense.
Specifications and Capabilities: SPIROL offers a diverse range of precision shims, thrust washers, and laminated and edge-bonded shims, custom-made from various materials with thicknesses from 0.02mm to 19mm. The company utilizes advanced production technologies like CNC laser technology and high-speed profile cutting to ensure precision and quality.
Quality and Certifications: SPIROL maintains stringent quality control systems and holds certifications including ISO 9001, AS 9100, and IATF 16949. It is also Nadcap accredited for chemical processing and laser beam machining, ensuring adherence to industry standards.
Industries Served: SPIROL caters to multiple sectors, offering solutions for industrial equipment, aerospace, agriculture, heavy equipment, and government/defense, with applications ranging from prototyping to full production.
Manufacturing Processes: The document outlines primary operations like stamping and machining, and secondary operations such as heat treating, grinding, and lapping. SPIROL focuses on in-house operations to maintain quality and reduce costs.
Customer Service and Support: SPIROL is dedicated to customer satisfaction, providing fast quotations, competitive pricing, and expedited delivery options. The company offers technical support and collaborates with customers from design to product launch.
Contact Information: Contact details for SPIROL's technical centers across Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific are provided, ensuring global customer support.
Product Offerings: SPIROL's offerings include threaded inserts for plastics, alignment dowels, bushings, spacers, rolled tubular components, compression limiters, and various types of pins. Specialized components like disc springs and machined aerospace components are also available.
Services: SPIROL provides complimentary application engineering support to assist with new designs, resolve issues, and recommend cost savings on existing designs. Customers are encouraged to visit SPIROL's website for detailed specifications and standard product offerings.
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WE ARE THE SHORT-RUN SPECIALISTS! Our objective is to provide our customers with the highest quality, short run Shims — delivered on time at the lowest price. To achieve this, we offer the • We maintain state-of-the-art production technology with an aim of eliminating costly tooling while improving product quality and dimensional consistency. • We use our expansive internal secondary process capabilities focused on shortening lead times, reducing costs and gaining internal control over total quality. • We have standardised tooling, materials and processes to lower costs and improve response time....

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PRODUCT OVERVIEW SPIROL's Precision Shim product line includes: Speciality Shims, Thrust Washers, Laminated and Edge-Bonded Shims in configurations ranging from simple OD/ID shapes to complex geometries. Products are custom-made to customer specifications from a comprehensive inventory of raw materials in thicknesses from .001” (0.02mm) to .750” (19mm). Manufacturing processes and value-added services are performed in-house under the direct influence of SPIROL's quality system registered to ISO 9001, AS 9100 and IATF 16949 as well as the Nadcap accreditation for passivation and laser beam machining...

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STAMPING OVERVIEW Our strength is cost-effective production of short run stampings. We can deliver product in thicknesses from .001” (0.02mm) up to .750” (19mm) with quantities ranging from one piece to thousands. To meet our customer needs of process control, minimal tool investment, long-term part repeatability, prototypes, and low unit cost, we utilise a variety of stamping methods. OPERATIONAL PROCESSES This method employs the use of standard tools, jigs, fixtures and technical skills to produce low-volume product where each feature of the part is manufactured using a separate process. It...

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MACHINING OVERVIEW SPIROL’s machining capabilities offer production methods that eliminate tool cost while improving product quality and consistency. We produce low-volume machined components complete, or we combine stamping and machining operations to reduce total product cost and deliver precision tolerances. We can provide product in thicknesses of .001” (0.02mm) and up on quantities from one piece to hundreds of thousands. CNC LASER TECHNOLOGY Laser cutting technology is ideal for complex configured parts, large geometries, short runs and prototypes. We use CAD/CAM systems and can accept...

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SECONDARY OPERATIONS SPIROL controls quality, lead time and cost by performing secondary operations in-house. We have modern process controls and monitoring on our equipment, and a wide variety of testing services. Our in-house secondary operations include: HEAT TREATING Our statistically capable internal heat treating process delivers through hardened and case hardened product with precision accuracy and minimal warpage. GRINDING & LAPPING For precision thickness, parallelism and flatness requirements, we employ several grinding techniques. This eliminates the need to purchase expensive small...

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WORLD CLASS CUSTOMER SERVICE We will be an active participant of your team starting in the design stage – through the qualification stage – until the product is launched successfully to ensure that your quality, performance and assembly objectives are completely satisfied! FAST QUOTATIONS Our quotation process is entirely focused on meeting your expectations. Our goal is to respond to your inquiry within 24 hours. COMPETITIVE PRICES SPIROL supplies high quality product and excellent service at a competitive price. Given the flexible manufacturing options that we have, our team will work with...

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Innovative Fastening Solutions. Lower Assembly Costs. Technical Centres Europe SPIROL United Kingdom +44 (0) 1536 444800 [email protected] SPIROL Ford +44 (0) 1914 540141 [email protected] Coiled Spring Pins Slotted Spring Pins Solid Pins Alignment Dowels / Bushings Spacers & Rolled Tubular Components Compression Limiters Americas Disc Springs Threaded Inserts for Plastics Machined Aerospace Components Precision Shims, Washers & Metal Gaskets Laminated Shims Parts Feeding Technology Asia Pacific SPIROL China +86 (0) 21 5046-1451 [email protected] Insert Installation Technology Compression...

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.