Superior Machining and Fabrication in Muenster, Texas, has launched an expansion project to position itself to enter the aerospace industry. The initial phase includes a 10,000-sq-ft facility expansion, and within 12 to 18 months the company will extend its engineering and equipment capabilities, including upgrading quality systems and advanced engineering CAD/CAM software.
The shop's equipment includes more 100 CNC machines, among them full five-axis vertical mills, multitasking lathes with five-axis milling capabilities, four-axis horizontal machining centers with 56 pallet change stations, vertical three-axis mills and CNC lathes with live tooling. The facility also features an operational tool room equipped with a complement of manual engine lathes, knee mills, surface grinders, cylindrical grinders and lappers.
“Our plans to expand into the aerospace industry would include a broad customer base and the ability to attract the difficult jobs that most shops cannot do,” said Jeff Walterscheid, Superior Machining and Fabrication’s operations manager. “We want the jobs that involve hard, exotic metals; we want to be the ‘go to’ shop in the industry.”
The company is also in the process of collecting specs and quotes for five-axis CNC high-speed milling machines and developing additional workforce programs. Company officials expect the final stage to be completed within three to four years and eventually to double in size. The company is both ISO 9001:2000 and AS9100 certified.
