About Armour Engineering

Our Engineering activities have their origins over 30 years ago in GRP vacuum forming mould production. With the inherent quality and production limitations of GRP moulds we developed our business towards Aluminium mould production technology with the provision of an in-house foundry facility. Over the next two decades we established a worldwide reputation in the supply of moulds for sanitary ware applications. In recent years we significantly enhanced our capabilities with investment in a state of the art CNC machining centre and CAD/CAM design facility.

Our expanded production facility can now offer fully machined moulds from solid aluminium billet or castings. As well as benefiting our traditional markets we have now expanded our interests into the general plastics industry. We offer unrivalled product quality and repeatability, all with the benefit of very short product lead times.

Machinery Development

We began the development of thermoforming equipment over 20 years ago with Oven and Semi automated rig production for sanitary ware applications. These were developed to increasing levels of sophistication and variety. However we felt that the specific needs of the Sanitary ware thermoforming industry were not being adequately addressed by machinery principally designed for the needs of the general thermoforming industry. Our design team took a fresh look at the needs of the industry and together with funding secured with the help of the DTI developed our Vertical Thermoformer machine range (VT10) in the early 1990s.

The machine has proven a great success with a worldwide customer base including America, Europe and Asia. Developed and enhanced over the last decade it offers an unrivalled combination of product quality and productivity.

From this base we have developed the HT series of machines for the general vacuum forming market which employ similar technologies. They have enjoyed excellent customer acceptance in their target markets. We have a range of Acrylic/GRP cutting and drilling solutions, including our robust Semi Automated machine, various CNC based systems to our recently developed Robo-Trim system.

Robotic GRP spraying systems and material monitoring systems are to be seen employed in our sister divisions production facilities as too are other examples of our process machinery.

Prospective customers are welcome to visit us and see these facilities in action. Our Engineering team utilises Solid Works 3D modelling to provide bespokely engineered solutions to our customers needs. We bring with this service over 30 years practical manufacturing experience in the plastics processing industry, providing us with a unique blend of abilities to convert innovative engineering ideas to productive functional plant within minimum timescales. For these reasons Armour Engineering is the preferred partner of choice for many worldwide manufacturing companies.

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" Technical development and critical self-improvement remain the continuous working policies of our company."