Portway is situated within easy reach of all the motorways that run through the West Midlands, giving us easy access to deliver our tooling throughout the UK and Europe.
Portway are renowned throughout the industry for technical excellence in press toolmaking. Our investment in technology means we can offer what competitive manufacturing industry demands today.
Our press toolmaking designs are produced in our modern CAD/CAM design office with all computers connected to the latest CNC wire erosion and milling/boring machine tools. Our technology allows us to compete with the stringent requirements needed to meet quality and delivery in today’s competitive manufacturing environment.
We have in-house trial facilities of up to 200 tons and all tooling is fully sampled and inspected on our co-ordinate measuring machine. Reports are also issued with samples to our customers.
Precision Progressive Press Tools are manufactured for various industries – Automotive, Electrical, Computer, Household, Lock and Footwear. We are also ISO 9001 approved.
For more information visit our website at www.portwaytool.co.uk or please request our brochure.
Capability Maximum Sizes Handled
Milling Up to “x” 800mm, “y” 1250mm, “z” 800mm
Wire Erosion(spark erosion) Up to “x”630mm, “y” 450mm, “z” 300mm
Try Out Facilities Up to 200 tonnes
Machines/Equipment
1 x Mikron WF51D
1 x MiKron WF71D/18
EDM Machining Centres – wire
2 x Charmilles
1 x Deckel Maho DMC
125 U Twin Pallet
Favretto Grinding Machine
CNC MD 160
2 x Charmilles Wire machines with Robotics
Chiron CNC Milling machine
Inspection: Tesa MS 454 CMM
Minstrel CNC CMM
Model 10.07.05 Networked to CAD Design
CAD/CAM
Hardware: 1 x 486 DDX33
Software: PEPS, NC Graphics
Autocad 2000
Machining Strategist
Mechanical Desktop
Solid Works
Vero; Visi-Progress Professional