THE COMPLETE WORKHOLDING SOLUTION It’s gripping stuff...
Hyfore Workholding Limited has been in business for more than 30 years providing UK manufacturers with the world’s most innovative, high-quality range of standard workholding, hydraulic fixtures and bespoke workholding solutions. The company has experienced continuous growth and employs over thirty dedicated, highlytrained professionals at its design and manufacturing facility in Coventry, West Midlands. Being centrally located, Hyfore is strategically positioned to service engineering businesses throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.
design and supply of automation systems for ancillary production equipment for the manufacturing industry throughout Europe and the United Kingdom. The business also boasts a complete in-house CAD/CAM 3D fixture modelling design team, employing six highly skilled personnel that are experts in everything workholding and automation. The company work within a broad spectrum of business sectors, including general engineering, automotive, aerospace, medical, oil & gas and many more. Hyfore is dedicated to realising significant savings in medium and high-volume CNC production for its customers, using cost-effective bespoke workholding systems that increase machine utilisation.
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ABOUT HYFORE
As well as providing the UK’s most comprehensive standard workholding range, Hyfore specialises in the design and manufacture of high quality, bespoke fixtures and workholding systems for metal cutting, welding and assembly applications. Their products have been assessed and certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001 for many years. The company’s Quality Management System encompasses the design and manufacture of bespoke manual, hydraulic and pneumatic workholding and work clamping systems, as well as the
WORKHOLDING FIXTURES We supply the grip… you supply the part At Hyfore, our bespoke manufacturing service supports manufacturers with a total solution to their workholding needs. Our in-house service based in Coventry undertakes the full service from consultation and design through to manufacture of complete bespoke fixtures and workholding solutions. The result is a tailored solution that will improve your productivity, precision and throughput.
The service is supported by the hyfore.shop that also helps our clients with a vast range of standard workholding ranges from world leaders such as Hardinge, Kosmek and Midaco.
This service is further enhanced with the latest design software, and automation handled by specialist leading manufacturers – all combining to confirm Hyfore as the market leader for your full workholding solution.
Hyfore has a team of engineers and designers that are dedicated to providing complete turnkey solutions for customers’ manufacturing requirements. The service encompasses design for manufacturing, using CAD/CAM 3D modelling this capability gives us a clear advantage when viewing complex fixtures and tool cutterpaths in relation to the fixture design. We have in-house quality, testing and prove-out facilities to ensure your project is delivered to agreed standards, something that is complemented by complete project management, after-sales service support and even simultaneous engineering contracts.
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As well as having the UK’s most comprehensive range of workholding products and services at our disposal, we also offer a complete subcontract machining service.
If your business is running short of capacity, has a project you need turned around quickly or just needs the facility to produce complex components in short turnaround times - we can help. Hyfore has a range of high specification machine tools on-site that are ready to support you and your machining needs.
With highly skilled machinists, machine tools and a full in-house subcontract measurement service - we can guarantee to meet your machining needs and exceed your quality requirements with a fast turnaround machining service.
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SUB-CONTRACT MACHINING SERVICE
SUB-CONTRACT DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING Bespoke workholding and component clamping often require more than the design and production of a solution - luckily Hyfore has a team of 30 highly skilled engineers to deliver and exceed your expectations.
Our expert team is full of design engineers, who work in tandem to ensure that your project aims are achieved. Whether you demand a hydraulic or pneumatic solution - or a bespoke design that incorporates both, Hyfore can design the most efficient, effective and productive system to meet all demands. With Hyfore, you can trust our design engineers to work with you to ensure that you receive a state-of-the-art solution to your component clamping and workholding needs.
If you need a subcontract measuring service to verify your components and production, we have it here at Hyfore. If your quality and measurement department is overwhelmed or creating a bottleneck in your business – we can help. At Hyfore, we have a temperature-controlled facility with the latest CMM and measuring technology that can alleviate your bottleneck, improve your throughput and support your existing quality control department. Available at short notice, our subcontract CMM measurement service can accommodate part measurements up to 950 by 1605 by 800mm in the X, Y and Z axes. We also offer full integration with 3D models, on-line and off-line programming capabilities, scanning & profile analysis programs with complete traceability reporting. If you need peace of mind in your QA process, you can count on us to support your business needs.
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PRODUCTIVITY BOOSTERS
At Hyfore, we’re all about streamlining your production, reducing your cost per part and increasing your throughput.
That is why we have the perfect range of costeffective productivity-boosting solutions to support your capacity challenges. Whether you are looking for barfeeding technology for loading your turning centres; part catchers for handling finished parts, or whether it’s robot loaders, pallet changers or automated grippers for your machining centre – at Hyfore, we have the complete solution waiting for you. With the Midaco range, Hyfore brings UK manufacturers the most diverse and adaptable range of pallet loading systems available to the industry. This is complemented by the Kosmek brand of premium clamping solutions that includes quickchange pneumatic and hydraulic products that encompasses everything from vices to grippers, robotics, control valves and sensor pins, quickchange die and mould products and zero-point clamping. Building upon this is the exciting Matrix range of mould clamping systems and clamping automation that can revolutionise and eliminate the use of costly clamping products. For turning centres, Hyfore represents Samsys, an innovator and industry leader in barfeeding and automation for turning centres. As well as this, Hyfore has technical partnerships with some of the world’s leading automation integration specialists. Regardless of what you are manufacturing and how you manufacture it, Hyfore has a cost-effective solution to boost your productivity, streamline your manufacturing processes and reduce your costs.
Our Standard workholding is anything but standard Hyfore has the UK’s most comprehensive range of specialist and standard workholding, pneumatic and hydraulic fixtures and machine tool accessories. With over 100,000 products, we can satisfy all your fixture, standard and bespoke workholding and driven tooling requirements. The Hyfore.shop offers standard equipment such as hydraulic and pneumatic clamping vices, quickchange collets, rotary couplings, CNC machine chucks, CNC tombstones, tool holders and more. We also stock a large selection of self-centring chucks, machine vices, hold down clamps, ±90° adjustable angle heads, trunnion assemblies and expanding mandrels. Hyfore also provides pallet changers, robotic loader/unloader systems, guarding, automatic door openers and manual rotary pallet systems – all guaranteed to increase your productivity. Furthermore, if you are looking to add a 4th or 5th axis rotary table or 5th axis vice to your milling or CNC machine, you’ve come to the right place! Hyfore works with world-class leading manufacturers, including Acrow, Bott, Buck, Hardinge, Kintek, Kosmek, Matrix, Midaco, MTS, Nikken, Spreitzer and more.
TOOLHOLDING The Hyfore toolholders and accessories are world-renowned and our solutions will reduce production costs and set up times for your machine shop. By choosing our high-quality equipment, your machine will have improved productivity, rigidity and security as well as improved quality and surface finishes. We can provide BT, HSK, face & taper, VDI, BMT, block tooling, ER collet chucks & collets, bushes, driven tooling and angle heads. Courtesy of our technology partners like Acrow, Hyfore can provide high-quality NR, C-H and HC parts for your machining centres with sizes available to suitable for your drilling, milling and rotating application needs. The range includes collet chucks, power milling chucks and much more. From Kintek, another esteemed partner of Hyfore, we can provide tapping collets, straight shank collet chucks and a wide range of ER collets. These ER collets offer specific features such as ‘high precision’ and being ‘sealed’ - giving you the product best suited for your needs. For applications on turning centres, Hyfore has a large selection of both driven and static toolholders with configurations. Additionally, customers can access several VDI parts such as holders for boring bars, U-drills, bar stops and bar pullers. Hyfore can also offer an array of tool holding accessories, such as our collection of Hardinge reduction bushes. These are available in HDQ, HDO, HDC and HDB and are guaranteed to be the longest-lasting and most accurate in the industry. Alongside this, you will find a choice of tool tightening fixtures for CATV and BT Flanges that are paired with wrenches specifically for standard, lock and mini nuts.
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MACHINE TOOL ACCESSORIES As well as being the industry standard for workholding, Hyfore also has an extensive online shop for machine tool accessories. Carefully selected, our accessories represent industry-leading brands that demonstrate the perfect blend of quality and value. We supply a high-quality range of products from bar pullers and storage solutions to hand tools, manual clamping systems, cleaning tools, drill chucks, oil separators, wash kits and wash stations, apprentice kits and much more.
OUR TRUSTED PARTNERS
feeding the performance
Hyfore Workholding Limited Units 2 & 3, 67 Blackhorse Road, Longford, Coventry, CV6 6DP
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