ABN 35 054 554 611

LETTER OF INTRODUCTION

3 Gibbens Road, West Gosford, NSW, 2250

Phone (02) 43254433  Fax (02) 43254622

E Mail: sales@tefcoengineering.com

Date: Saturday, 11 March 2006

 

Tefco is actively seeking contract machining work to utilise excess capacity on our CNC equipment.

The business has been established for over sixteen years, principally involved in the design and manufacture of Bearing Housings, machining of castings and other general engineering activities.

We also utilise the 30 years of Conveyor components design and construction experience of our senior management to offer design and manufacture of conveyor pulleys, rigid couplings, drive bases, brake components and wire rope sheaves.

Over the last few years we have undertaken an extensive re-equipment program broadening our capabilities to offer larger contract CNC machining capacity to complement our traditional business.

This required we establish a new 1,800M² machine shop on one acre of land at West Gosford.
We also acquired a machine shop in Melbourne to further our capabilities.

We have the knowledge and equipment to do a large variety of complex CNC machining work, including large parts to 1600mm diameter and have close relationships with a number of foundries & forging companies to provide the feed materials. Our pricing is very competitive, and we offer a personalised prompt estimating service.

COMPANY PROFILE

The Tefco Group turnover in 2005-06 will be in excess of A$12 million reflecting our rapid growth.
We employ 51 people at our two locations with 28 qualified tradesmen, 12 process workers and 11 Engineering, Management & support staff.

ENGINEERING CAPABILITY

Tefco employs a Mechanical Engineer with solid modelling, CAD and Finite Element Analysis capability to assist with component design plus jig and fixture design for machining your engineered components.

An example of our Engineering ability to machine tricky components is we have reverse engineered & solid modelled off road diff housings for a US aftermarket reseller, designing all jigs, fixtures & tools including the internal spherical machining tools to machine the diffs in Australia for export to the US.

EXPERIENCE

We have experience with machining large high volume components requiring substantial quality assurance and just in time delivery scheduling.

For example we have a 5 year agreement to machine cast SG Iron tow bar parts for Toyota vehicles.

We are a principal machine shop for Voith Railway carriage coupler components, which have substantial quality assurance, material traceability, heat treatment and testing requirements.

Tefco is also a back up machine shop for Comsteel and we machine many hundreds of their railway wheel axles and wheels each year.

We have an ongoing collaboration with the Ajax Foundry group, and together we have exported many thousands of vehicle diff housings to the USA aftermarket.

Our Ringwood machine shop is also a substantial contract CNC Machine shop. We have enjoyed all of Onga Pumps Australian casting machining work for over fifteen years. This contract was recently amended to include casting supply and extended for a further two years and now includes aluminium component machining.

We manufacture specialised bearing housings with casting masses anywhere between 0.3Kg thru to 8 Tonne.

Where material supply is required we select from quality assured foundries, forge shops and steel merchants depending on the material, mass, style and batch quantities.

We liaise with our foundry engineers & pattern maker to address all points associated with a casting and design the Pattern & tools utilising this knowledge reducing the incidence of rejection due to casting issues.
As an example of adding value for our customers we recently cast some components in a modified SG iron suitable for heat treatment to improve physical properties beyond 700Mpa with excellent elongation and notch properties, allowing the use of castings in lieu of forgings to lower our customer’s costs.

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Manufacture is done under our Quality Assurance system that conforms to the requirements of ISO9002.
Our normal protocol is to provide Inspection and Test Plans (ITP’s) for all machined components.
Material traceability procedures are in place where required by our clients.
Documents are maintained in the job file for later reference should it be required.

EQUIPMENT

The major re-equipment program we have undertaken in recent years has broadened our capabilities to offer CNC machining capacity for high volume components to complement our traditional business.

Our West Gosford and Ringwood Factory Machining Capacities include:

Mitsubishi CNC Vertical Machining Centre with 1,200 long x 800 vertical x 700 cross travels, complete with 500 diameter 4^th axis and 26Kw 6,000-RPM spindle and a 24-pot tool changer.


Eumach CNC Bed Mill with 3000 long x 1000 cross & 1500 vertical travel and a 500 diameter rotary table.


Three Acra & Quantum CNC Vertical Machining Centres with up to 1,500 long x 900 vertical x 700 cross travels. All machines are fitted with a 4^th (rotary) axis for automatic 4 side machining.




Gurutzpe CNC lathe with 1,400mm swing x 4,000 between centres, fitted with full C axis control & 12.5Kw live mill tooling.
The machine is equipped with 1200 diam 4 jaw, 800 diam 3 jaw and an angle face plate.
It is also set up with a heavy duty boring pedestal allowing internal machining of deep bores.


Three (3) Daewoo CNC lathes with 770mm swing x 1000 between centres, with one at Tefco fitted with full C axis control & 7.5Kw live tools.

Mori Seiki CNC lathe with 450mm swing and fitted with full C axis control and 5.5Kw live tooling. A Bar feeder is also fitted suitable for up to 75mm diameter bar.


Acra CNC lathe with 560mm swing x 1500 between centres.



Ajax large swing CNC lathe with 1600 swing x 2500 between centres and live tools plus 355mm hollow spindle.

Union CNC 6 axis horizontal borer with 2,700 cross x2,500 vertical x2,300 long travels, full contouring B axis 2000 x 1800 table size & 8,000Kg table capacity.
Includes a programmable facing head suitable for boring to 1400mm diam.


Auto feed bandsaw suitable for cutting up to 360mm diameter bar.

We have a computer controlled stress relieving oven for our fabricated steel components.

A part view of one workshop which have a number of overhead cranes with up to 10 Tonne capacity.

OTHER EQUIPMENT

Ø       A big swing Ryazan lathe was installed in September 05 with 1370 swing x 4800 between centres.

Ø       Another Eumach CNC Bed Mill is on order for installation in May 06 with 4000 Long x 1000 cross & 1500 vertical travel with 500 diameter rotary table & programmable Vertical to Horizontal head for genuine 5 sided machining.

Ø       Various other manual lathes, mills, drills and horizontal borers, all fitted with digital measurement.

Ø       We have welding and fabrication capacity and specialise in TIG & MIG welding of steel and stainless steel components to support our machining capabilities.
We have automatic sub arc welding equipment, which together with our large vertical and horizontal welding rotators allows us to do both internal and external pulley welds very efficiently.

Ø       We are installing a new gas fired stress relieving oven 4200 long x 2600 high x 2600 wide in June 2006 which will improve our efficiency by reducing our reliance on contractors.

All our machinery and equipment is as new or in first class condition.

We hope the above is acceptable and look forward to an opportunity to become an approved supplier of your contract machined components.

For quotations or further information please contact the undersigned for prompt attention.

Yours truly,

Peter Baird

Managing Director.